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2	What is ProjectVIEW? Federal Technology Innovation Challenge Grant — Virtual Information Education Web 2000 – 2005 Collaboration and exchange of ideas between teachers and informal education providers (including zoos, museums, historic and cultural centers) through videoconferencing and other digital communications.
3	Technology Grants Awarded Technology Literacy Grant Technology Innovation Challenge Grant - projectVIEW Portal Grant Cable in the Classroom
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5	"8700 students/" 8700 students/ 17 buildings 3000 networked PC’s 40 servers 220 networked printers 100% of classrooms with internet access 50 labs or media centers in 17 buildings
6	"Microsoft Office" Microsoft Office CCC – Successmaker PageMaker Photoshop World Book Encyclopedia AutoCAD version 14 Geometer’s Sketchpad 4 Tangible Math and Tangible Science
7	What is Videoconferencing? What it’s not: - Distance Learning - Virtual Field Trip - Online Courses
8	What is Videoconferencing? Defined: - A collection of technologies that integrate video with audio to convey real-time communication over distance.
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10	Real World Applications Business - Meeting - Interviews Medical - Specialists - Home Health Care - New Baby Government - Judicial Proceedings - Security Personal - Family
11	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.
12	Educational Applications Educational Programs such as; zoos, museums, historic and cultural centers Informal educational providers — experts in the field and community connections Collaborating Teachers Collaborating Classrooms
13	Example Content Providers Albany Institute of History and Art National Baseball Hall of Fame Buffalo Zoo Albright Knox Museum Philadelphia Museum of Art Space Center Houston Cincinnati Zoo Guggenheim Museum Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame New York State Museum
14	www.projectview.org Schenectady City School District
15	The Technology Behind the Process
16	Videoconference Technologies Camera — Eyeball, PTZ, Digital Camcorder Monitor — Desktop, Large Screen Projection Systems Audio — Microphones, Headset, Handheld Software Interface — Meeting Point, Net Meeting CODEC — Software and Hardware
17	Infrastructure IP — Over the Internet ISDN - 1 line — 128k - 3 lines — 384k Bandwidth - Video and Audio Packets - 384k Quality Videoconference - 128k Doable Videoconference - Cable & T-1 - 1,500k - T-3 - 45,000k
18	ISDN vs IP
19	The Dollars and Sense of It!
20	The Dollars and Sense of It!
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22	Summary