Meet in school

Don't miss this exciting opportunity on February 22, 2007 from 7am EST to 7pm EST (UTC -5) to interact with schools from around the world.

The schedule of presentations is now posted. Join over hundreds of sites from countries all around the world including Portugal, Australia, Canada, Japan, Indonesia, England, Spain, Slovenia, Pakistan, and the US in the upcoming Megaconference Jr. 2007!

You'll also have a chance to win exciting prizes from the event vendor sponsors so far - Polycom, Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC), VuPorts, and Tandberg. Keep checking the prizes page for the most up to date list of new prizes and new sponsors.

Join us from sun up to sun down all around the world for this 4th Annual Megaconference Jr. global event Register now at: http://www.megaconferencejr.org/

And, please help forward this to anyone, anywhere in the world that you think might want to participate.

Alison Gaunt, Secondary Hands on Support Advisor for the Advisory Service Kent (ASK) organised a videoconferencing event for the Cranbrook cluster last week.

The 3 schools, Angley, Cranbrook and Mascalls have all had high quality Promethean videoconferencing equipment installed in their schools as part of the Promethean Teaching & Learning observatory solution (TLO). The schools asked Alison for some advice as to how best to use it in the classroom for teaching & learning and to also provide ideas for other uses e.g. meetings between schools.

Alison organised for Ian Yates from Promethean to come to the event and show the teachers from the 3 schools how to use the equipment. Steve James from EIS came along to provide technical support and information on the Kent central videoconferenicng infrastructure.

Beccy Chapman, Meet-In-School project manager and Alison Gaunt talked to the group about possible VC projects for collaboration, enhancing and broadening the curriculum .

The group also linked via videoconference to talk to Chris Higgins and some of his students at Invicta Grammar School about their experiences of using videoconferencing in their school.

The event was a great succes and all teachers commented on how useful they had found the day. All teachers left with plans for videoconferences between schools, one has even been planned for this week.

To see the pictures from the day, click this link

May I take this opportunity to wish you a happy and prosperous 2007. Last year a number of exciting videoconferencing events took place and I am looking forward to seeing how VC will be used in the classroom this year. The BETT show in London next week promises to provide a great platform to investigate the use of videoconferencing in the classroom and to hear and see what Schools around the country have been doing.

I look forward to hearing about any exciting VC projects that you have underway. Please post any project ideas to the Blog and hopefully we can start to collaborate and share experiences.

Many Thanks

Rebecca Chapman