There are many resources on the Internet related to videoconferencing. While this list is by no means exhaustive, these are the resources that we have found most useful. Please feel free to contact us regarding other resources or suggestions that you think would be useful to others. You may also use our KNE Feedback form to send suggestions. If you are looking for Content Providers, please use our searchable Videoconferencing Directory.
Training in CIV (Compressed Interactive Video) by Robert Craig and Clint Brooks. This outline is designed to inform the user about the basic elements of Compressed Interactive Video Presenting and Teaching.
Video Conferencing Cookbook Table of Contents, an online manual providing detailed information and suggestions to help institutions select video hardware and software, create videoconference spaces, and conduct videoconferences.
Blueprint for Interactive Classrooms is about "designing and building interactive classrooms for teaching distant learners ... which allow teachers and learners to interact over a variety of telecommunications networks in a cost-effective and pedagogically sound manner. "
Here are some lesson plans that were done as part of the DIAL (Distance InterActive Learning) Consortium. These could easily be repurposed.
Planning Information covers some areas that many others don't -- staff, budget, and logistics -- from Digital Bridges. Their site guide provides a great list of other items to consider.
VNS Video-Over-IP Guidelines Firewall Configuration - darn those pesky firewalls! Maybe this will help.
Streaming Technology
Multimedia Seeds is available to anyone who wants to learn more about audio, video, and visual resources. Includes tutorials, collection development, production, and effective use. From Eduscapes.
Streaming tutorial from IEC: Online Education: Desktop Streaming Media Production which explains the process of getting content onto the web.
Introduction to Streaming Video, May 2001, David Cunningham and Neil Francis report on the technologies available, as well as some of the problems encountered when trying to stream video content across the Internet.
Designing Internetworks for Multimedia, a very dry but indepth overview of designing and using networked multimedia applications; including bandwidth, quality of service requirements, multicasting, Internet Group Management Protocol, and several routing protocols.
Distance Education Clearinghouse allows users easy access to a wide range of information about distance education. This web site brings together distance education information and resources from Wisconsin, national, and international sources. New information and resources are being added to the Distance Education Clearinghouse on a continuing basis.
Distance Learning Resource Network offers current research, news items, and covers Star Schools projects and K-12 courses offered at a distance. Visitors can use the searchable database to find current information on the courses and resources available from the Star Schools projects, or peruse the library to find a variety of useful information on Distance Learning topics.
The United States Distance Learning Association promotes the development and application of distance learning for education and training. Constitutents include K-12 education, higher education,
continuing education, corporate training, and military and government training.
Project Videonet, a California Public Library Videoconferencing Network cooperative project among 40 public libraries supported by an Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant.
Here is a link to archived webcasts.
Utah Education Network, EDNET homepage, is a two-way, fully interactive video network that connects schools throughout Utah and beyond using various technologies. Currently more than 270 interactive sites make up the EDNET system.
Illinois State Video Network has been in operation since 1991 to provide videoconferencing services to governmental agencies throughout the State.
About the Telematics Project, 84 schools in remote areas of Victoria, Austrailia, are using telematics and desktop videoconferencing technology to offer a broad curriculum to all students. On-line discussion groups and electronic mail enable teachers and students to interact between lessons. There are links to contacts on the Videoconferencing Clusters page and the Telematics Clusters Map.
EEZ Book on best practices in videoconferencing in PDF format from the New York Institute of Technology. A 92-page document that covers many topics indepth including impact, standards, IP issues, collaboration, and much much more.
Check out YouTubes videos results for 'videoconferencing' search.
Two Way Interactive Connections in Education (TWICE) is Michigan's organization for videoconferencing in K-12 education. TWICE promotes and supports collaborative connections for the benefit of all students.
Vanderbilt Virtual School matches curriculum needs with educational standards and links K-12 classrooms to resources beyond their four walls.
Keystone Conference archived videos "Interactive VideoConferencing: Igniting Opportunities for Learning."
Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC) consulting services, tools and resources, and access to professional development experts and student programs to help you reach your goals.
Magazines
Learning and Training Innovations LTI NewsLine delivers strategic content and innovative technology solutions to implement learning and training in corporate, government and educational enterprises.
Try the EDUCAUSE Resource Center Search for access to a wide variety of articles, documents, websites, etc. on distance learning and technology. EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.
A nice list of e-journals from Martin Ryder, U of CO, may lead you to new information. Try the Main Index to see other related subject areas.
eSchool News is a monthly online newspaper of events, issues, key players, products, services, and strategies necessary to help K-12 decision-makers. Also covers the business and political issues impacting school technology.
Technology & Learning magazine providing administrators, technology professionals, and teachers with comprehensive, relevant, and authoritative information on technology trends, new products, news, and funding sources for their technology programs. Check out "Videoconferencing in K12 Classrooms" and Digital Video in the Classroom. Some articles require free subscription.
ConferZone has a regularly updated list of tech articles that is worth exploring. Coverage is wide-spread and business oriented and provides a good source for quotes or industry updates.
Newsgroups/E-mail Lists/Blogs and the like Newsgroups and e-mailing lists are used to share information with other people around the world about a specific interest. Unlike most web pages, newsgroups and e-mailing lists allow discussion, so you can post your comments or questions for others to read and respond. The main difference between a newsgroup and an e-mailing list is the way messages are handled. Newsgroups store the messages on a news server; your newsreader software looks up these messages when you want to read them and keeps track of what you've read. An e-mailing list (a "listserv") sends the messages directly to your e-mail address instead. To get the messages, you have to subscribe to the list.
EDUCAUSE list of discussion groups. Educause is primarily higher ed; but technology and learning is at the root of all discussions.
DEOS-L facilitates discussion of current issues in distance education. Past messages are archived.
Videonet is for California public library staff working with interactive videoconferencing, sharing best practice, and fostering collaboration among California public libraries equipped with interactive videoconferencing.
Education Advocate Expansion Education Advocates are now available to consult with customers nationwide. Contact us or your sales account manager for more information.
Where has all our content gone? KNE has been on the Internet since 1995. Support has changed. We will continue to host Filamentality and several of our original sites including Videoconferencing for Learning, Filamantality, and the Big6.
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First posted 1995.
Last modified
Sunday October 04, 2009
