Video Conferencing skills
Educators should be able to use a video conferencing classroom and understand
the basics of teaching with Video Conferencing. See the following Web sites for
helpful information and tutorials.
Global Leap
http://www.global-leap.com/
The Global Leap website is a resource for teachers around the world,
enabling them to get help, advice and support to develop
videoconferencing in the curriculum, to find videoconferencing partners and to
book interactive videoconference lessons. Created to service the UK school
curriculum. The site contains a registry of international schools available to
registered schools.
Help
with Videoconferencing
From the
nonprofit Center for Interactive Learning and
Collaboration (CILC) comes a web site dedicated to helping schools and other
institutions harness the power of videoconferencing as an instructional tool.
Through the center's Vision Athena database--a searchable archive containing
hundreds of videoconferencing activities, online lessons, workshops, and special
virtual field trips--students and teachers can access educational content from
universities, libraries, museums, hospitals, and other community-based
organizations. Each program is accompanied by additional planning and
instructional resources, including an outline of the disciplines addressed
during the conference; a list of student learning objectives highlighted;
related vocabulary words and definitions; a breakdown of the national and state
educational standards to which each program applies; a list of participants;
pre- and post-program activity suggestions for educators or conference leaders;
and supplemental resources, including suggested reading lists and web sites.
Monthly conferences include such seasonal subjects as Black History Month, Earth
Day, Women's History Month, and more. Other videoconferencing and
distance-education opportunities have included lessons in Ancient Egyptian
history and a live chat with Senator Richard Lugar on terrorism and the war in
Iraq. Access to CILC content requires free registration.