K-12 Applications

Megaconference Jr. is a project designed to give students in elementary and secondary schools around the world the opportunity to communicate, collaborate and contribute to each other's learning in real time, using advanced multi-point video conferencing technology. Presenters will design and conduct videoconference-based presentation and activities focused on both academic and cultural issues. Participants will be able to address questions to presenters and to collaborate with geographically diverse peers in collaborative learning activities, thus building international cultural awareness.

Texas Connects is a program offered by the Texas Education Telecommunications Network and the 20 education service centers designed to give students an opportunity to collaborate and contribute to the understanding of a curriculum-based topic in real-time, using videoconferencing. Upcoming this spring is Texas Connects: Nature Speaks in Texas, a program designed for middle school math and science students.

Join the Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC) staff as they discuss the innovation and challenges of how they conducted the first annual Keystone K12 videoconference event that brought together over 1400 educators from five countries and 35 U.S. states with another 114 remote site connections for the first ever multi-day, multi-strand virtual conference event using H.323 and some H.320 video, and 13 MCUs.

The Necklaces is an innovative learn- then - teach package than will be taught entirely over videoconference and Internet to innovative schools worldwide. The Necklaces program is currently being taught to over 180 Apprentices in six schools in Newport, Rhode Island and has been taught over the Internet and over videoconference to students in Argentina.