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What is Project VIEW?
  • Federal Technology Innovation Challenge Grant – Virtual Informal Education Web
  • 2000 - 2005
  • Collaboration and exchange of ideas between teachers and informal education providers including major museums, zoos, aquariums etc. through videoconferencing and other digital communications.



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Project VIEW Goals
  • To build capacity to deliver standards based programs to students using interactive technologies.
  • To create classroom-ready, curriculum that extends the classroom walls to the world.
  • Provide access to VIEW programs and resources through interactive web-based archives.


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What is Videoconferencing?
  • What it’s not-
    • Distance Learning
    • Virtual Field Trip
    • Online Courses
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What is Videoconferencing?
  • Defined –
    • A collection of technologies that integrate video with audio to convey real-time communication over distance.

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What is Videoconferencing?
  • Defined –
    • A collection of technologies that integrate video with audio to convey real-time communication over distance.

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What is Videoconferencing?
  • Defined –
    • A collection of technologies that integrate video with audio to convey real-time communication over distance.

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What is Videoconferencing?
  • Defined –
    • A collection of technologies that integrate video with audio to convey real-time communication over distance.

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What is Videoconferencing?
  • Defined –
    • A collection of technologies that integrate video with audio to convey real-time communication over distance.

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Real World Applications
  • Business
    • Meetings
    • Interviews
  • Medical
    • Specialists
    • Home Health Care
    • New Baby
  • Government
    • Judicial Proceedings
    • Security
  • Personal
    • Family
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Why Engage in Videoconferencing?
  • Is to enhance  standards based curriculum delivery.
  • To deepen understanding K-12 curriculum through the dynamics of interactive technology
  • To provide resources not available through the ordinary classroom structures.
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Educational Applications
  • Educational Programs from museums, zoos , aquariums etc.
  • Informal educational providers – experts in the field and community connections
  • Collaborating Teachers
  • Collaborating Classrooms


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www.projectview.org
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Emerging Technologies
  • Traditional Uses
    • E-mail, Computer Assisted Instruction, Grading, E-Mail, Attendance, Finance
  • Videoconferencing
  • Wireless Technologies
  • Palm Handheld Computers
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Videoconference Technologies
  • Camera – Eyeball, PTZ, Digital Camcorder
  • Monitor – Desktop, Large Screen, Projection System
  • Audio – Microphones, Headset, Handheld
  • Software Interface – Meeting Point, Net Meeting
  • CODEC – Software and Hardware
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"IP – Over the Internet"
  • IP – Over the Internet
  • ISDN
    • 1 line – 128k
    • 3 lines – 384k
  • Bandwidth
    • Video and Audio Packets
    • 384 k Quality Videoconference
    • 128 k Doable Videoconference
    • Cable & T –1
      • 1,500 k
    • T- 3
      • 43,000 k
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Wireless Network Technologies
  • Networks
    • Local Area
    • Access points
    • Computer Work Stations/Laptops
    • Videoconferencing Applications
      • School Buildings
      • Museums, Zoos, Informal Content Providers

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Palm Handheld Computers
  • It’s not just a Phone Directory
  • Educational Applications
  • Directly related to  raising Student Achievement
    • Documents To Go
    • Fireviewer Suite
    • E-mail
    • LCD Projection Adapter
  • Videoconferencing Connections


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www.projectview.org