This presentation discusses video conference opportunities connecting the classroom to experts, authors, and curriculum enrichment projects.

1. Connecting Your Classroom To The
World
Video Conference Opportunities In Your
Curriculum
NETA, April, 2011
Bob Bednar, Pleasanton Public Schools
Monday, April 25, 2011

2. Why Connect A
Classroom?
• Content Providers
• Collaborations
• Professional Development
• Educational / Social Networking
http://prezi.com/srkiyehic_h-/connecting-your-classroom-to-the-world/
Monday, April 25, 2011

3. Why Connect A
Classroom?
• Content Providers
• Collaborations
• Professional Development
• Educational / Social Networking
http://prezi.com/srkiyehic_h-/connecting-your-classroom-to-the-world/
Monday, April 25, 2011

4. Why Connect A
Classroom?
• Content Providers
• Collaborations
• Professional Development
• Educational / Social Networking
http://prezi.com/srkiyehic_h-/connecting-your-classroom-to-the-world/
Monday, April 25, 2011

5. Why Connect A
Classroom?
• Content Providers
• Collaborations
• Professional Development
• Educational / Social Networking
http://prezi.com/srkiyehic_h-/connecting-your-classroom-to-the-world/
Monday, April 25, 2011

6. How can you engage students?
Monday, April 25, 2011

7. Wordpress Blog
http://distanceedconnections.wordpress.com
• Blogging can capture student reflections
• Blogs provide a platform to share info
• Blogs serve as a reference library /
documentation of your video
conference events
• Blogs can assess student outcome
Monday, April 25, 2011

8. Wordpress Blog
http://distanceedconnections.wordpress.com
Monday, April 25, 2011

9. Monday, April 25, 2011

10. Quinhagak, Alaska
Monday, April 25, 2011

11. Henry Doorly Zoo
Monday, April 25, 2011

12. Henry Doorly Zoo
Monday, April 25, 2011

13. Monday, April 25, 2011

14. Henry Doorly Zoo
Monday, April 25, 2011

15. Read Around The Planet
Julie of the Wolves
Monday, April 25, 2011

16. Student comments:
Julie of the Wolves
Monday, April 25, 2011

17. Ben Franklin
(Nebraska Law Foundation)
Monday, April 25, 2011

18. Youth Day At The
Capitol
Monday, April 25, 2011

19. Skype to Anchorage
Monday, April 25, 2011

20. 2010 Iditarod Race
Monday, April 25, 2011

21. Iditarod 2009
Monday, April 25, 2011

22. Iditarod Race
Monday, April 25, 2011

23. Video Conference with
Author
Monday, April 25, 2011

24. Video Conference with
Author
Monday, April 25, 2011

25. Durham Museum
Monday, April 25, 2011

26. Cooperstown, NY
Monday, April 25, 2011

27. Pearl Harbor
Monday, April 25, 2011

28. 5th Grade
Collaboration
• Burnam Elementary
School, Long
Island, New York
• CAPspace
Collaboration
Connection
Monday, April 25, 2011

29. Livia E. Bitton-Jackson
Monday, April 25, 2011

30. Livia E. Bitton-Jackson
Monday, April 25, 2011

31. Monday, April 25, 2011

32. Monday, April 25, 2011

33. Monday, April 25, 2011

34. Little Rock Central H.S.
Monday, April 25, 2011

35. COSI
Monday, April 25, 2011

36. Monday, April 25, 2011

37. Monday, April 25, 2011

38. CAPspace (Twice)
Monday, April 25, 2011

39. Monday, April 25, 2011

40. CILC weekly update
Monday, April 25, 2011

41. CILC Content Providers
Monday, April 25, 2011

42. CILC Collaborations
Monday, April 25, 2011

43. CILC Promotion
Monday, April 25, 2011

44. CILC Search Menu
Monday, April 25, 2011

45. CILC Search
Monday, April 25, 2011

46. Football Hall of Fame
Monday, April 25, 2011

47. World War II Museum
Monday, April 25, 2011

48. Durham Museum
Monday, April 25, 2011

49. U.S. Holocaust
Memorial
Monday, April 25, 2011

50. SKYPE Users
Monday, April 25, 2011

51. Skype - Free Connection
Monday, April 25, 2011

52. Monday, April 25, 2011

53. Professional Development
iPad in the Classroom
Monday, April 25, 2011

54. Professional Development
iPad in the Classroom
Monday, April 25, 2011

55. Resources:
• Center for Interactive Learning &
Collaboration: http://www.cilc.org
• Collaborations Around the Planet: http://
projects.twice.cc/?l=collaborations&id=1062
• Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC) NING
•
Monday, April 25, 2011