CILC E-News, September/October 2007 Issue
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The Next StepNews from CILC
Classrooms Connecting
The Scavenger’s Hunt
Lessons Learned
IVC: A World View
SIGIVC Forum Rocks!
Conference News
Sponsorship
The Next Step
Videoconferencing Student Project Contest (KC3)
Tap into the creative nature of your students!
This standards based project is designed to help your students look at their community with new eyes and explore ways to share their findings with others.
Organize a team of middle or high school students to create an engaging IVC…
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There's No Other Museum Like It - and Kids Did It All
Looking for a virtual field trip offering this fall? The Museum of Scott County might be just the place. It was completely constructed by the building trades students at Scott High School and is staffed by their drama students who take on the role and dress...
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Incredible Free Resources from NASA
On August 4, 2007 I received the following note from Dr. Laura Blasi, an evaluation specialist at Saint Leo University near Tampa, Florida. For the past four years her research has focused on high school science in low-income classrooms, specifically using the free Virtual Lab simulation...
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News from CILC
National Distance Learning Week
November 12 -16, 2007
The purpose of these awards is to recognize exemplary...
Nominations are now OPEN!
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CILC Invited to Speak
CILC Directors have been invited to speak at two...
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Classrooms Connecting
Starting Close to Home
Native American students from the Konocti Unified School District in California ended the year with a landmark opportunity. Pomo and East Lake Elementary students connected for their very first video conferencing experience. When the camera came on...
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Baptism by Fire
Prior to the 2006-2007 school year, Beverly Pipes had served in a high school classroom for 28 years. In the fall of 2006, she realized that in one week she would be responsible for an experience that impacted over 3,000 students in a one week timeframe. She was to be coordinator for...
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A Different Type of Summer Experience
Videoconferencing In Namibia. Prior to leaving for Namibia, it was important to ascertain the bandwidth capabilites of the Southern African region to determine...
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The Scavenger's Hunt
Hunting through Cyberspace is a great way find out what people are doing with and thinking about technology. This hunt is limited to videoconferencing and other synchronous communcation technologies.
The links are here. The hunt is up to you!
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Lessons Learned
Teachers Speak Out
Read the latest on what teachers have to say about the impact of videoconferencing on student learning and professional growth.
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IVC: A World View
How does the world at large value videoconferencing? These articles range from education to business to...
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ISTE SIGIVC Forum Rocks!
On June 26, 2007, the SIGIVC held its first ever forum at NECC. The highlight of the morning was the Speed Networking Session where eleven individuals each had 2 minutes to share about a successful program. Enjoy these one page descriptive overviews.
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Conference News
CILC Symposium
November 13-14, 2007
University Place Conference Center and Hotel
Indianapolis, Indiana
The CILC Symposium will address practical applications, issues and concerns, and emerging trends related to interactive videoconferencing (IVC) and synchronous communication technologies. Its unique format creates interactivity among its participants, both on-site and remote.
It also will feature the NDLW Awards - Nominations are open!
E-Tech Ohio
February 4-6, 2008
Greater Columbus Convention Center
Transforming Education through Technology
This annual three day event includes keynote and featured speaker sessions, 300 concurrent sessions, teacher and student displays, emerging and assistive technology areas and vendor exhibits.
Elevate 2008
August 24-27, 2008
Banff, Alberta, Canada
Reaching New Heights in Educational Videoconferencing
Join participants at an international conference in exploring future directions in educational videoconferencing and related technologies. The conference will feature leading-edge keynotes, hands-on workshops, interactive concurrent sessions, live educational demonstrations by IP video-conference, discussions with key industry leaders, and an educational technology and VC content provider exhibit.
FETC
January 22-25, 2008
Orange County Convention Center
Orlando Florida
The conference program is designed so educators and administrators have an opportunity to learn how to integrate different technologies across the curriculum - from kindergarten to college - while being exposed to the latest hardware, software and successful strategies on student technology use.
NECC
June 29 - July 2, 2008
Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
San Antonio, TX
Convene. Connect. Transform.
Join more than 18,000 teachers, technology coordinators, library media specialists, teacher educators, administrators, policy makers, industry representatives, and students from all over the world who'll gather on the San Antonio River Walk.
Contact Dawn to list your favoite instructional technology related conference in our next E-News.
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