global immediacy
DESCRIPTION
Using Video Telephony to Bring Distant Guests into Your Classroom: Recent developments make it cheaper (and possibly easier) than ever to have audio-video conversations online. This opens up more possibilities for bringing guest speakers to your class without actual travel. In this hands-on workshop you'll learn how to use Skype to talk to people around the globe. Bring the world into your classroom! [Presented at Xavier University of Louisiana on November 19, 2009. This online version of the slideshow does not contain the "hands-on" portion.]TRANSCRIPT
Global Immediacy
Using Video Telephony to Bring Distant Guests into Your Classroom
Dr. Marion CarrollBeyond Jena Forum — January 31, 2009
Overview
• Background of video telephony and VoIP• Skype history and how-to and caveats• Classroom applications
Video telephony in the year 2000, as imagined in 1910. From a French postcard.
Easily the most influential consumer offering that the VoIP world has been able to produce.
— iLocus
Ahti Heinla, Toivo Annus and Priit Kasesalu
Credits
Kimberly & Marion by Bart Everson Postcard by Villemard, Public DomainTaxi Face by NYC Arthur Ethernet Walkie-Talkies by Matt ChanSkype by Mark McLaughlinAhti Heinla, Toivo Annus and Priit Kasesalu by Joi ItoScreenshots of Skype, copyright Skype LimitedVisualizing the Guardian: Surveillance & Privacy by Jer ThorpInterpreting Class by Drew Tolson Electronic Classroom by Bart Everson
All images licensed under Creative Commons unless otherwise noted.