I am working with Nigel from West Craven High Technology College in the UK to get our sites connected and tested for our Read Around the Planet connection and this has been another excellent learning experience for me.
Some things I learned…

Check to see if you can use your landline for international calls. I can’t. So, [...]

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Managing and coordinating student projects is one thing, but conducting staff development is another application of video conferencing in the K-12 environment.
At my current organization, we can bridge video conferences from our state agency to our local districts through the intermediate agencies (us). That seems like a great idea, and it is a wonderful time [...]

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Today is the first day of Holidays Around the World presentations. This year about 80 classes are participating from 14 districts. You might be wondering what goes on behind the scenes to make this happen.
I create the handouts and coordinate with the site managers and the teachers. The site managers send me a spreadsheet with [...]

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A first grade class from Clifton ISD partnered with a first grade class from St. Lorraine English Kindergarten in Hong Kong for the first of a series exchanges for the 2006-07 school year. Thank you, Lola for contributing this to the blog!

This event was initiated by Chun Bong in Hong Kong placing a request with [...]

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