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VIDEO CONFERENCE RESOURCE CENTER
Welcome to my K-12 IVC resource wiki. Training agendas, handouts, and resources will be available on this page. I hope you find them useful. Please contact if you have questions or are an AT&T customer in my area and need assistance with video conferencing or staff development.
http://www.kn.att.com/support/allen/index.html
Training Documents and Handouts
Learning Strategy Worksheet.doc
Sample Agenda for an IVC Event
Wylie ISD School To School IVC Projects
Eight Guidelines for Videoconferencing.doc
Five Simple Rules for Developing Effective.doc
Presentation Application Methods.doc
IceBreakers for Student Video Conferences
/|BCISD VC Collaborative Projects
VC's Math and Sci.
http://vickiwiki.pbwiki.com/f/Math%20Collaborative%20Videoconferences.doc
Mystery Quests World Geography
Make Your Ask Program a Success
Guides, Manuals, White Papers
Tandberg MXP_Training_QuikSheet
http://tandbergusa.com/collateral/product_brochures/MXP_Training_QuikSheet.pdf
TANDBERG_990_880_770_MXP_User_Manual
Tandberg Training Videos On-line
Links to Polycom Helpful Whitepapers
http://polycom.com/solutions/1,,pw-8641,00.html
VSX Quick Reference Sheet
http://polycom.com/common/pw_cmp_updateDocKeywords/1,1687,3411,00.pdf
Complete VSX User's Guide
http://polycom.com/common/pw_cmp_updateDocKeywords/1,1687,2965,00.doc
Best Practices and Effective Planning Internet Resources
AT&T VC Instructional Strategies
AT&T Lesson Plan Matrix for IVC
/|Teacher's Guide from Digital Bridges
Media Links/Video Clips
SWING network Intro To Portable VC Clip - Very Humorous. Good way to start off basic teacher training. Done in the style of "Leave it tto Beaver."
/|Portable Video Conferencing and YOU!
This video provides information to help teachers and curriculum planners. This video highlights eight schools using this technology for course delivery and classroom extensions. Interviews with educators already using videoconferencing provide useful tips.
/|Promising Practices in K-12 Video
This video is targeted primarily at administrators and other decisionmakers responsible for funding, staffing, and developing strategies for applying videoconferencing technology in K-12 schools. Featured are interviews with superintendents, principals, and trainers.
/|Issues for K-12 Decision Makers
The Imperial County Office of Education is successfully implementing IP videoconferencing for its schools. This session discusses the vision ICOE has, what they have done, and how they are moving forward to realize their vision of videoconferencing in every classroom.
Today leading universities, colleges, corporations, consortiums, primary and secondary schools all use videoconferencing for effective global distance learning and training programs to enhance research, create more educational equity, increase enrollments, improve instructional design and provide excitement.
/|Outreach Beyond the Classroom Walls with Russ Colbert
From UWTV resource page. Learn about some common videoconferencing pit falls and how to avoid them. In the style of "The Twilight Zone." Humorous way to show "what not to do" and discuss advances in VC technology and equipment.
Learn how a Texas school district benefited from TANDBERG technology and expertise. The second clip is a Tandberg promo, but it shows many examples of teacher and student use of VC systems. Great clip to share with administrators. (If these do not open for you, be sure to click on the message bar that comes up and choose SHOW RESTRICTED CONTENT.)
Global Nomads short overview of their programs. International students share comments, and Michael Douglas narrates.
See author Jim Stovall speak with students in Berrien County ISD about his life and book, The Ultimate Gift
Archived video conference clips from Paris ISD, Paris, Tx.
SWING network page of various demo clips of VC Content Providers.
/|VC Content Provider Demo Clips
Tandberg Training Videos On-line
Overview of Polycom products and services for Education. Second presentation is a guide for teachers including classroom set up, examples of successful events and applications, and pedagogy for the distance learning classroom.
/|Global Education Guide for Success
This basic user guide is a quick overview of the new features in TANDBERG's MXP products. Focuses on how to use the MXP REMOTE CONTROL and some menu functions. Narrated by Scott Sharer.
Content Provider and Collaboration Resources and Databases
Content Providers -
Vicki's Filamentality Hotlist on IVC Resources
AT&T's Videoconference Adventures
/|Polycom/BCISD Searchable Provider Database
/|Polycom's Provider List XLS Download
Tandberg/CILC Searchable Content Provider Database
Noodletrip Searchable Provider Database
Classroom to Classroom Resources -
/|VC Collaborative Classroom Projects at the TWICE site
VC examples by grade level to match Berrien County ISD Collaborative Curriculum
Collaborative Video Conferences
CILC Classroom2Classroom Collaboration Center
Hotlist on On-line Collaborative Projects to Springboard for IVC
Listervs and Directories -
AT&T Collaboration Collage Listserv
/|AT&T VC Directory and Links to many other directories
Network and Equipment Information
AT&T Video Conference Introduction
AT&T Planning Multipoint Calls
- see also the Guides, Manuals, White Papers section above for equipment manuals and quick reference sheets
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