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Where Do You Want to Go Today? A collaborative videoconference project gives you and your students an opportunity to learn with another school or classroom. CAPspace is a social networking tool for educational videoconferencing built into the new Read Around the Planet registration system. Login to find colleagues and schools interested in collaborative videoconference (H.323 and H.320) projects, and participate in TWICE sponsored matching projects.

"Whether you are new to videoconferences or have been using them for years, we hope the tools on this page will enhance your present use or send you on the road to incoprorating interactive videoconferences in your classroom."

"General Videoconference Information & Clearinghouses"

" * Search the Berrien RESA VC Content Providers Database * TWICE Video Field Trip Streaming Samples * Berrien County Collaborative Curriculum and Videoconferences Grade Level Guides for Science, Social Studies, and Language Arts. * Favorite Field Trips by Berrien RESA * Quality Indicators of a Field Trip by TWICE Members. * Getting Started with Videoconferencing * Michigan Content Providers, International Content Providers, Speaker's Bureaus and more details."

A collaborative videoconference project gives you and your students an opportunity to learn with another school or classroom. There are many possibilities. Some projects are planned by educational service agencies, and others are planned by teachers and tech coordinators.

Two Way Interactive Connections in Education (TWICE) is Michigan's organization for videoconferencing in K-12 education. TWICE promotes and supports collaborative connections for the benefit of all students.

"This database, sponsored by Polycom, Inc., contains programs from content providers such as zoos and museums that offer ISDN or IP based videoconferencing. The Berrien RESA has researched this information to the best of our knowledge. If you have any corrections or updates, please email them to vcintern@berrienresa.org."

Video conferencing and collaborative project resources

Video conferencing and collaborative project resources

"e-Missions™ are simulated, problem-based, learning adventures delivered right into the classroom via distance learning technology. With the use of the internet and video conferencing equipment, these "live" scenarios are conducted in your classroom by a Flight Director at Mission Control from the Challenger Learning Center at Wheeling Jesuit University."

"Polycom offers customers global dial-up access to a variety of its video conferencing equipment. The following is a comprehensive regional listing of specific equipment and related information. Feel free to utilize these numbers to conduct testing of your video conferencing units. Please be aware that these numbers are published worldwide and may be unavailable during certain times of the day due to heavy network traffic. Check back frequently for monthly updates!"

Interactive videoconferencing in K-12 schools; schools connect with museums, state institutions, classroom to classroom projects.

A Teacher's Guide to Videoconferencing How to Plan, Produce, Present, Manage, and Assess a Distance Learning Class

Videoconferencing Out on a Lim is about one distance learning coordinator's experiences, curriculum thoughts, and technology rants related to k12 videoconferencing. I coordinate videoconferencing for 18 school districts in southwest Michigan. We have 70 Polycom units and we also have Tandberg infrastructure (MPS, Gateway, Gatekeeper and TMS). We've been doing videoconferencing since 1999. You can read about our program online here: SouthwestNet Distance Learning.

Videoconferencing technology allows people at two or more locations to see and hear each other at the same time. The Videoconferencing for Learning website supports effective and educational uses of videoconferencing by providing basic information about the technology and instructional applications as well as resources to help you find and collaborate with other videoconferencing teachers, librarians, and content providers.

At its most basic level, video conferencing in education connects remote students to teachers. On a more exciting level, it also leads students on virtual tours, brings far-away experts on camera for interviews and allows kids to try out their fledgling foreign language skills on their peers from other countries. While such activities might have been difficult in the past due to travel costs, time constraints and inconvenience, classroom video conferencing can offer a work-around solution. Video conferencing lessons for schools can also ignite an interest and enthusiasm for learning that traditional teaching methods sometimes can't.

Mikogo and Skype: Creating seamless Web conferences with screen sharing, voice, instant chat, and video - without paying a cent!

Video Conference programs offered by MAGPI - all Free!

"The ways that video conferencing can enhance the educational experience are numerous. Ginger Lewman, director of the Face2Face program at the Turning Point Learning Center in Emporia, Kansas said that video conferencing has been used "as an essential learning opportunity for the past four years. We've been connecting with students across the U.S. and the world to bring religion, geography, history and service learning to vibrant life." But how exactly do you use a video conferencing system in education? Below are five ways to use video conferencing in the classroom."