IVC Symposium, 2002
A National Symposium for Practitioners
Summary
This symposium, sponsored by three Regional Technology in Education Consortia, was conducted in October 2002 in Dallas, TX. It was attended by approximately 85 IVC professionals of various capacities, representing school districts, regional agencies and SEAs from 26 different states, and content producers from private and public agencies. They were all experienced users of interactive videoconferencing for a variety of purposes in the K-12 environment, including instruction and administration. They came together to identify innovative and effective practices, and examine and consolidate their experiences in order to identify the critical issues in IVC and recommend policy options and solutions to common problems.
Invited speakers addressed major issue areas, including partnerships for content development, effective use of the IVC medium, implications of Internet 2 development for K-12 interests, federal roles, and research needs. Below are links to short clips of three of the speakers.
Panels composed of selected attendees representing a wide range of applications of IVC presented information and highlighted issues in three areas: Promising Instructional Applications of K-12 IVC; Promising District Level Applications of IVC; and IVC policy perspectives from state administrators. Small discussion and birds-of-a-feather groups added to the elaboration of issues and themes. Prior to the Symposium, the sponsoring RTEC collaboration produced a Literature Review and a Policy Issues Review. The discussion themes at the Symposium were used as the basis for a policy analysis of IVC in K-12 education settings. (Access & Opportunity) Another result of the symposium is a list of K-12 National Providers.
Dr. Stan Silverman
View a video clip of Dr. Silverman's comments (3:20 seconds, 2.2 MB, QuickTime player required) Dr. Stan Silverman is the Director of the Technology-Based Learning Systems Department of the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT). He is also director of a not-for-profit consortium named the Educational Enterprise Zone (EEZ), a partnership of NYIT with Verizon and the Hitachi Foundation (http://www.nyiteez.org). The consortium members are content providers who create programming for K-12 classrooms and learning environments that receive the programming, as well as corporate facilitators who assist with hardware and software needs for the various programs. Content providers come from a variety of educational, public and private sector arenas including cultural institutions, museums, research centers, hospitals and small businesses, which offer member schools a wide range of curricular programming.
Dr. Ken Klingenstein
View a video clip of Dr. Klingenstein's comments (2:20 seconds, 2.2 MB, QuickTime player required)
View Dr. Klingenstein's powerpoint presentation
Dr. Ken Klingenstein serves on the Senior Staff of Internet 2 and is Project Director for the Internet 2 Middleware Initiative. In that role, he is responsible for disseminating middleware developments, fostering interoperability through standards and workshops, capturing best practices, working with corporations and vendors to create products for use in higher education, and being a liaison to national and international organizations interested in the development of middleware. On loan to Internet 2 from the University of Colorado at Boulder, he continues to provide strategic leadership for information technology for the campus where he was Director of Information Technology for 14 years. Dr. Klingenstein has served as chair of the Federal Networking Council Advisory Committee, Chair of Westnet and Colorado Supernet, and in other roles in national and regional networking.
Scott R. Sharer
View a video clip of Scott Sharer's comments (5:10 seconds, 3.5 MB, QuickTime player required) Mr. Scott Sharer is the Vice President for Educational Development at Logical Transitions Inc., Tybee Island, Georgia (http://www.logicaltransitions.com). In addition to a range of training and staff development services in videoconferencing for organizations, LTI is well known for their commitment to schools via the Virtual Videoconference Fieldtrip Program, offered to K-6 public schools via dialup videoconference connection. Through his extensive use of personally developed methodologies when training for LTI, Scott's special insights into the deployment and use of videoconferencing technologies for distance learning applications have become widely recognized by many in professional training and education.