4th grade students will be presenting an interactive SMARTboard game that they have created based on a variety of learning areas. The 4th graders would like to have at least one other classroom to interact with - to be the game participants. The presentation is based on the game show, "Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?" |
10 year old teacher Adora shares her experience and expertise in using video conference to get students excited and motivated to learn. |
Global Nomads Group is a nongovernmental educational organization that uses interactive technology to foster dialogue and understanding among the world's youth. Specifically, GNG has conducted programs in more than 40 countries, linking more than 10,000 students each year from around the world to meet one another face-to-face and discuss the international issues that affect them. Global Nomads Group would like to present an interaction in this year’s special ten-year-anniversary Megaconference that demonstrates the power of videoconferencing in joining diverse groups of students to tackle some of the globe’s most pressing issues. From our headquarters in New York, we will link together a group of high school students from Futures Tech School in Cairo, Egypt, and their counterparts at Passaic Valley Regional High School in New Jersey, U.S. These students came together to discuss the divide between the East and the West in December 2007 and February 2008 in an ongoing GNG program called “Arab World and the U.S.” In this conference, students will talk about what they have learned from each other and how their stereotypes were challenged in the previous videoconferences. After we briefly explain our organization’s work, this interaction will include highlights from the videoconferences between Egyptian and American students. Then, both groups will share what surprised them from the interaction and what has stayed with them since. About GNG Founded in 1998, GNG is dedicated to heightening young people’s understanding and appreciation of the world and its people. Using existing videoconferencing technology in thousands of schools nationwide and around the world, we connect students in grades K-12 and facilitate (virtual) town hall discussions on global issues like the HIV/AIDS crisis, the war in Iraq, and the situation in Darfur. Our programs allow students to gain exposure to the cultures and viewpoints of their peers around the world, preparing them to be active members of a global society and agents of positive social change. To date, GNG’s novel, cross-cultural work has been featured in media outlets that include CNN (Inside Africa), Good Morning America, This Week with George Stephanopoulos, the Today Show, the New York Times, and Education Week. In 2005, GNG was recognized by two reputable education advocacy groups: The United States Distance Learning Association and the Goldman Sachs Foundation. Our special feature documentary, Rwanda Alive (based on our educational program of the same name), was declared Best Documentary at the 2006 International Beverly Hills Film Festival. |
With a purpose to encourage develop inner awearnes in children of basic human values as compassion, generosity and cooperation we decided humanitarian to organize project children to children to support Tibetan orphans in India. |
A cultural presentation by the students of Giralang Primary School in Canberra, Australia showing some of what they have learned while studying Australia's unique indigenous culture. Lead by renowned indigenous artist and performer Duncan Smith, the students will present an engaging cultural experience including music, dance, art and story. |
The Global Consortium: Partnerships in Action The Global Consortium (GC) is a network of partners that share a common goal of bridging cultural gaps in our world. The GC raises awareness of global issues to college students throughout the world, many of whom would not be able to have this opportunity if it were not for this program. The GC has the unique advantage of being broadcast to over 2.5 million college students throughout California, webcast on the internet, broadcast on local cable television(3CMedia Solutions) and interactively shown live to our partner schools, educators, students and institutions across the globe. The GC seeks to provide education and information about global issues, challenges and cultures around the world to our young people – the people who will one day be asked to take part and solve global problems. |
Learn about the amazing documents in the holdings of the National Archives—Southwest Region in Fort Worth, Texas! Participants will view original records documenting the diverse history of the United States. Explore topics such as: Jefferson appointments, the Wild West, Indian relations, school desegregation cases, NASA missions, and many more! Participants will also learn about the exciting distance learning programs offered by the Southwest Region. |
The IDEAL concept being implemented at Folsom Lake Colleges focuses on how a process model for enterprise education can be used to target various student groups in an interdisciplinary manner, and emphasizes the need to teach entrepreneurship to all students, including non-business students, who in many instances are the originators of ideas, but unfortunately do not have the business knowledge to develop the idea further. |
The 2008 Olympics is a most significant event for the people in china and the world. Chinese people have seen so many wonderful matches in 2008 Olympics. We enjoyed the matches very much. It is one of the great pleasures of this summer. Many world records have been broken, we were pleasantly surprised. We will show you some impressive moments and scenes. |
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Sharing the information by distance learning is the challenge for teachers and participants who are the important part of the forming proocess of such education. |
The technology of videoconferencing breaks through geographical boundaries and brings people from around the globe together, enabling real-time interchanges with schools all over the world simultaneously. National Dali Senior High School (Taichung, Taiwan), Cambridge Isanti High School (Minnesota, USA) and Taikyu High School (Yuasa, Japan) have conducted real-time interactive courses in various subject areas for over two years. Types of connection and teaching methods used in implementing the courses vary according to the content of videoconferencing. For instance, in addition to the usual three or two site connections, in certain courses, other schools are invited to connect in, acting as either active participants or audience. Furthermore, interactive participants consist of not only high school students but also pre-service teachers and elementary school students. It is hoped that through sharing and discussion of these diverse international interactions, more innovative ideas will be sparked for further use of videoconferencing in education and research. |
Bringing the world the southern pacific indigenous cultures. |
The interaction will present a project with researchers from the Royal Institute of Technology and The Museum of National Antiquities in Sweden and is about how museums can expand themselves into cultural heritage sites through mediated communications windows. The principles could be used to make museums into portals to cultural heritage and really achieve global connections! |
Lyrics and information regarding Mega Choir can be found here. |
The model for increasing the literacy level called »From quality to excellence« is bringing to life the idea of using long life learning in the field of literacy development as a main instrument of modern civilization. Teachers, pupils and others involved in the project are enabled to develop those competences which present the foundation for putting long life learning principles and encouragement of literacy development into force, not only as a cultural instrument, but in the sense of pointing out the meaning of literacy as an instrument for enabling people to enter the world of relationships and knowledge. |
By introducing the MRT system to the members of the global village, we hope to achieve the goal that foreigners could understand better where to visit and what to eat when they visit Kaohsiung. Furthermore, one of the station, the World Game station, is near the main stadium of The World Games 2009. Visitors can go to the stadium to enjoy the games by MRT right after they land in Kaohsiung International Airport. As a consequence, through the introduction of the mascot of The World Games 2009, we hope to intrigue more sports fans all over the world to join this splendid festival in 2009. |
Pupils will present their village Pišece and school with short movie (aprox 3 - 5 minutes). Movie will be mostly concentrated ond the traditional international camp (several schools from 3 countries particapate on this camp) named "Moving borders" that will be held in Pišece. |
Videoconferencing is one way to reach a global audience. Not only are we able to connect people, but in this interactive presentation, I plan to help participants explore their connection to the plant world in their daily lives. |
With children of age 12 we will present primary school system in Slovenia. We will show some interesting things about our education. |
TWICE is Michigan's K12 videoconference organization with a volunteer board of mostly education service center and school district personnel. This presentation will give an overview and demonstration of TWICE's signature event, Read Around the Planet. This project matches K-12 classrooms to celebrate reading on dates around Dr. Seuss' birthday (March 2), annually since 2002. In 2008, 1600 classrooms participated in this amazing project. |
Advanced technologies make use of Internet connections to provide students with the opportunity to access information and data collections normally not available to them. Using technologies like this, students from around the globe are able to collaborate with researchers to learn more about their topics of study. |
We would like to introduce our beautiful city, a born city of lots of famous sports like Blanka Vlasic, Goran Ivanisevic, Toni Kukoc… Also we will shortly represent our school activities in different projects and possibility using videoconference to exchange knowledge between our students. |
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The presentation will provide a virtual tour of the Technology Research Training Center (TRTC)that is a part of Argonne National Laboratory's Transportation Research and Analysis Computing Center located in West Chicago, Illinois. Using videoconferencing technology, we will tour the TRTC facility showing and describing it's advanced visualization and training facilities. |
Telehealth Video Resources Center – Bringing Health Knowledge to You Through Collaborative IT Technologies Charles R. Doarn, MBA,1,2 Rachel Brown, MD,3 Arif Khan, PhD,1,4, Michael McGill, PhD5, David Gray6 1Telehealth Video Resources Center; 2Center for Surgical Innovation, Department of Surgery University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH; 3Nationwide Childrens Hospital Medical Center, Columbus, OH; 4Ohio Supercomputer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH;5Internet 2, Columbus, OH; and 6World Bank, Washington, DC Information and communications technology (ICT) have bridged societies from across the globe to enable collaborations in a variety of disciplines. Whether it is access to news, sports or entertainment, the world is smaller than ever before. The ability for the developing world to gain knowledge about new approaches in such areas as healthcare, public health, or business has been supported by government, industry and world-wide agencies, such as the World Bank. Healthcare organizations utilize new tools to reach out to their community, providing new services in health monitoring, patient management, and education. This is evident in the unmet need of many who wish to be linked together for enhancing educational awareness and enabling better access. To this end, the World Bank, Internet 2, the State of Ohio Governor’s Office, The Ohio Board of Regents, and the Ohio Super Computer Center have partnered together to establish the non profit, Telehealth Video Resources Center (TVRC) to serve as a resource for video services linking people to people statewide, nationally and internationally. This service is modeled after the World Bank’s initiatives and will serve as a significant tool for telehealth activities. Access is through a robust Web portal, rich with information and capabilities. The TVRC is a financially supported through membership, philanthropy and collaborative partnerships. This presentation will highlight the TVRC strategic initiatives and will showcase how theses services are utilized to enable telehealth using a neonatal case at Columbus, Ohio’s Nationwide Childrens Hospital. TVRC will utilize state-of-the-art ICT to enable better healthcare across the globe. |
Participants of the first Megaconference reflect on how video conferencing has changed over the last decade, and how video conferencing has influenced people and practices. They are also invited speculate as to where video conferencing will be in another ten years.
Not all presenters are available for Megaconference, their responses are included below:
Stan Henson |
The first part is introducing our school, Zadar and Croatia In the second part we will show you how we use video conferences in vocational, medical education. The main thing we want to show you is connecting our school with our main hospital (Zadar Hospital), video conferences from operatian rooms where the students watch the real operation and after that they talk with the medical staff. |
A description of the presentation. |