The following information
is excerpted from "Teaching
with Videoconferencing: Lessons Learned" produced by Lucy
Tribble MacDonald, project manager for the Oregon Technology
Infusion Project. It contained a compilation of lessons learned
from faculty who taught during the 2000-2001 school year with
video conferencing. This is just one section from that project.
- Make 4 x 6 cards of students' names at remote sites and
color code for them for each site.
- Call on students by name at remote sites. Once a student
has answered, turn card over for ease of attendance taking.
- Make 4 x 8 cards folded lengthwise table tents for students
in local class.
- If I did this again I would require distant sites to color-code
all work turned in. Perhaps a blue cover sheet on all local
papers, a yellow sheet for all distant sites, etc. Despite
my best efforts to not confuse what papers were to be separated
and mailed to different locations, I made mistakes delaying
feedback to students. The class was too short to learn all
the names and locations of students to make sure I didn't
make this mistake.
- All correspondence (e-mail or snail mail) should have been
labeled with the student's name and their location. I should
have made this mandatory in the beginning but I didn't.
- Let local class know when to pay attention. Sometimes they
think that the teacher is speaking ONLY to the remote site
and then they can talk and not pay attention.
- Use an audio cue to bring the group back together after
individual group activities. We tried chimes but that was
too soft. We tried a whistle, which was too loud. What worked
best was a synchronized clap that was repeated by the remote
sites to indicate that they were ready to return the whole
group.
Used by permission as of 05/13/04
Retrieved from World Wide Web on May 13, 2004
http://www.ode.state.or.us/oraccessnet/resources/teachwithvideoconf.pdf
