[Year 12 IT Apps] Video Conferencing

[murch at tpg.com.au]

At Hawkesdale p12 College we used video conferencing for several years for teaching LOTE 
(Chinese mandarin) and a year 12 maths subject. We have not used it for a few years now as the 
demand has not been there.
However, we now use skype and the video conferencing portion of that. See www.skype.com Our 
school has purchased three smart boards and the images can be projected onto the smart board.  
Sound then comes through the speakers.  In our computer lab we do not have a smart board but 
can set up something similar with a datashow and laptop or simply use the laptop.  Only staff's 
laptops are the only hardware that have skype set up on. Skype uses VOIP (voice over internet 
protocol) and for us it works well.
Have used it  
-to videoconference with primary and secondary classes within our school
-to videoconference with Warnambool schools
-as a demonstration to a night class of dairy farmers from school to another teacher who was set 
up at home for this purpose
-wanted to use it for an IT survey with Deakin Uni in Geelong and our year 12 students rather 
than a telephone conference but they did not have the facilities!!! I personally use it to 
videoconference my sons in London. MSN will do a similar thing as will other VOIP software.
This is such a cheap, effective way of doing things.  If you want more details, email me off line or 
if you want to know what software/hardware we originally had, will have to wait until school 
returns
Anne Mirtschin
Hawkesdale p12 College

Quoting Sylvia Pastore-Bautista <pastosy at mowbray.vic.edu.au>:

> Hi all
> 
> I am sure we are enjoying the well deserved break. Anyway just wanted
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> to know if any school out there is utilising video conferencing and
> if  
> so can you email me as I am currently investigating suppliers
> hardware  
> and educational use of it. Also if people are using PDAs I am also  
> interested in hearing from you. I am currently looking at an ICT  
> project and hoping to see if these are viable technical resources.  
> Thank you for your help
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