Impacting Teaching and Learning With Interactive Video - Pre-Keynote Session

by Paul Schwan

Presentation sponsored by Cisco
(largely a commercial for their stuff at their booth)
Presenter: Lance Ford, PhD

I walked in late to this session and grabbed a few snippets that were interesting to me. Most of these notes are, as my students would say, pretty "random". Much is stuff that I'll google later, to find out more. I was disappointed with the presentation and presenters, as they sort of blasted us with way too much stuff, and maybe were "so well rounded they didn't have a point". In any event, scroll through these notes and see if anything grabs you.

• shift to having students bring their own device to school; we provide the wifi access to Internet

• students want:
• school based learning
• untethered learning
• rich learning

•  examples given by participants of use of technology to enhance learning:
• virtual field trips using video to talk with experts in various fields
• Flip cameras used to capture video of students talking about various topics
• Oxford Net (Oxford, Michigan school communicating with people in China)
• using video to connect Lance Ford with another school across the country to teach music theory

• Lance Ford:
• online video learning often... boring
• video can make it or break it when it comes to interactivity
• conversation is the key

Center For Interactive Learning and Collaboration - http://cilc.org

• portal for live, 2-way video interactions
• helps different technologies to talk with each other
• example: collaborations tab on website: 188 requests for video collaborations on various topics you can plug into
• take a unit you've done for years and make it interactive with another school or class using video; compare your results (ie., with a science experiment or activity)
• MOVI client (Mac) - to interact with "standards-based" video tools
• H.263 (??)
• electronic whiteboard that's video-enabled (Cisco booth)
• khanacademy.org - 10 minute videos on various subject-based topics
• OxfordNET (Michigan)
• Unified School District (USD) #480 in Liberal, Kansas
• Hybrid Courses: Once class, many classrooms. - class taught in real time, using web collaboration tools to students in multiple locations.
• Webex (by Cisco)
• Virtual Desktops and cloud computing
• Cisco Forum for Education Leaders
• UMI - with HiDef TV for interactive video
• Cisco Telepresence Content Server

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• Technology tools must help an educator recover TIME, otherwise it won't be used
• Technology also must "hook" the kids, or it won't be worthwhile
• kc3.org - kids creating community content international contest

Sitting a few rows ahead and to my right I saw Steven Lehenbauer, but he ran out before I could grab him. Maybe later at our sharing session....