Hi All
Just a few quick notes of introduction and hopefully some questions? Shawn asked which system we (are using. We (Kawartha Pine Ridge DSB) have Tandberg endpoints and a Border controller. We have been connecting to content providers such as Rene Brunet at the Biosphere, and VROC, the Virtual Researcer on Call Project, NASA and the Canadian Space Agency, the Indianapolis Zoo, the Centre for Puppetry Arts and others for several years now.
We have been a part of the Ontario Ministry of Education Pilot in developing the use of Video Conferecing in the eLearning Ontario initiative in conjunction with the Algoma District School Board. We have been successful in growing the technology but still have a long way to go!
I am looking forward to meeting all of you at the conference in person andwill through via video. I hope that we can become aware of many of the divergent advancements in the use of video conference in education and make connections that will allow us to continue with bringing a global perspective to Canadian schools.
What do you percieve to be the barriers? Any ideas or experiences that can help the group overcome the issues!
How do we continue after these initial contacts are made?The Blog/Wiki can be very effective!
Please forward along 4 slides on Power Point which outline who you are, The basics of your organization, Your contact info and what you would like to get from the symposuim. Shawn and I will put all the slides together and we will show them at the Symposuim and burn them to CD for you to take away as well as post them to this site.
Jeff Brown
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