Welcome! Wikis are websites that everyone can build together. It's easy!

Videoconferencing

"Live Event" Opportunities on Dec 6-7, 2007

Educators and students have the opportunity to attend and participate in two different "live events" associated with the dedication of the U.S.S. Oklahoma Memorial on Ford Island in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 6 and 7, 2007. These events include:
  1. A pre-dedication videoconference on Thursday, December 6th at 2 pm Oklahoma (US Central) time and 10 am Hawaii time. Part 1 of this videoconference will last 45 minutes. Part 2 will be a more informal question and answer discussion with World War II veterans and will last approximately 45 minutes. This event will be shared BOTH as an interactive videoconference and a webcast (view-only) event.
  2. Weather and Internet connectivity-permitting, the actual U.S.S. Oklahoma Memorial dedication ceremony scheduled for 4 pm Oklahoma (US Central) time and 12 pm (noon) Hawaii time on Friday, December 7 will be shared via a live videoconference and webcast with students and teachers. This ceremony is expected to last 1 hour and 30 minutes.

Click here to watch the "live events"

Three different participation options are available for students and teachers:

  1. Prior to and followingeach videoconference, teachers and/or students can submit questions as comments to the USS Oklahoma Memorial Digital Learning Project blog located at: http://blog.newsok.com/projectwwii/
  2. Teachers in schools with available videoconferencing equipment (H.323/IP compatible) can apply to participate "live" with their students in each videoconference. The number of live videoconference connections for schools will be limited, to insure participating students have opportunities to actually ask questions during each connection. Oklahoma schools will be given priority for these videoconference connections, but if space permits it is possible that schools outside Oklahoma may be able to connect "live" as well.
  3. Teachers and students in ANY location (in Oklahoma or outside the state) are welcome to view the live "webcast" of these videoconferences, which will be embedded on the educator portal page of http://oklahomawwii.org. Prior registration for viewers of the webcast is encouraged but NOT required. Individuals not directly associated or involved with schools are also welcome to view the webcast "live." Project coordinators request that teachers and students at each school site use a SINGLE computer with a LCD projector or large format televison to share the webcast with multiple students at your location.

Archived Videoconference Recordings

Archived (saved) videos of both videoconferences will be available via the Oklahoma World War II Stories educator portal (http://oklahomawwii.org) following each live event. These archived videos will be publicly accessible and NOT password protected.

Steps to Participate in the Live Videoconference

If teachers and students at individual school campuses would like to participate in the "live" or "webcast" videoconferences, one person from each school should complete the registration webform available on:
Schools selected for the "live" videoconferences will be contacted by Lance Ford, technology director for Howe Public Schools and our project videoconferencing coordinator, to arrange for a prior test connection and scheduling your videoconferencing endpoint / CODEC into the Howe Public Schools bridge for the actual videoconferencing event(s).
During each videoconference, participating schools are asked to connect 30 minutes prior to the start of the event and keep local microphones muted. Questions will be solicited from participating schools in a "round robin" format during the Q&A periods of each videoconference.
The USS Oklahoma Memorial Dedication Digitial Learning Project coordinators would like to extend special recognition the following partners who have made specific contributions to enable these videoconferences to take place:
- AT&T
- The AT&T (formerly SBC) Foundation
- NewsOK.com
- Tandberg USA
- Howe Public Schools
- ONEnet of Oklahoma
- The University of Central Oklahoma's College of Education
- OETA
- The Oklahoman
- The K-20 Center at the University of Oklahoma
- Oklahoma State Department of Education




Latest page update: made by wfryer , Dec 18 2007, 4:00 PM EST (about this update About This Update wfryer Moved from: Project Updates - wfryer

No content added or deleted.

- complete history)
Keyword tags: videoconferencing
More Info: links to this page

There are no threads for this page. 

Anonymous  (Get credit for your thread)


Top Contributors