George Willey

gwilleycg.com

29 Comerce Drive

Bedford, NH 03110

Phone 603-512-9271

FAX 603-878-9151

 

10/22/08

 

 

Tablet that works as smartboard 

Interwrite $450.00

e-instruction

 

Older polycom Will it fit?

 

RUSS Grant

 

Seresc - NEKLS (bring educational excitement to students & teachers)

 

Rural Utility Service Grant RUSS

Get $500,000 must find a matching school that has the money (Exetor, NH, has the money)

 

Pull out the grant and read it.

 

 

NCUHS teamed up with Whitefield, NH $360,000 not 500K

 

$22,000 Tanberg list price

DHCP address once connected

 

CODA, WAVE 2 camera (pans, tilts, zooms in & out)

Speaker integrated

microphone (stealth look), 20 ft. cable

projector, auto keystoning

play and record VCR or DVD, must be a recordable (not currently)

Use as  multimedia center (remote control)

 

Video Conferencing Success

1. superintendent that is committed to making the program work

2. principals and teachers that are commtted tomaking hte program work

3. technical suport staff that are committed to support the program

 

Need wireless Cisco card to make this work well in a classroom with wireless connectivity

 

Teach moodle from Essex and other PD opportunities.

 

Biggest use of Tanberg is for interviews.

 

Collaborate for advanced French instruction, but never have more students than you normaily have in a class.

 

Cable question 768 down and up. h232 standard video conferencing on a network. Firewalls need to be h232 aware

 

nat address network access transation(?) network company kept changing the nat address

 

COSI, is a good provider of Virtual Field Trips, Columbus, OH,

students are able to get learning packs as part of the field trip

 

 

Videoconferencing : the important role of adminstration

• develop a vision for how videoconferencing will be implemented in your district
• obtain

 

 

THE CILC CONTENT-DOLLAR BANK - http://www.learn.vermont.gov

 

Another good fieldtrip: Radio & TV Museum: claymation animals in the zoo

 

Region 11, Ft. Worth ,TX

JoAnn Roe helps schedule video conferencing (region 11)

Region XI Telecommunications network connects to many other networks (bridge to other video conferencing)

TEA connects to TETN Region 13 broadcasts to 19 other service centers

ESC 11, RETN broadcasts out to schoos, admin., universities

• offer dual credit with community colleges

• school dist. to dist. or school to school

 

Texas Connects

• Career series

• paleobotany

• fire fighters

• After Election Day

 

Connect 2 Texas www.Connect2Texas.net

• Scheduling system for videoconf. in TX

• Run by their staff
• Amon Carter Museum
• Bass Hall
• Ft. Worth Museum of Scince & History
• FW Nature Center & refuge
• Cook Children's Hsp.
• Grace Museum
• McDonald Observatory
• Botanical research oInst. of TX
• National Archives SW region
• Monnig Meterorite Gallery at TCU
• National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame
• Bob Bullock TX state History Museum
• more than 200 titles available this year

 

Cost: $100.00 for Cowgirl Hall of Fame (check website)

art, math (geometry), health, social studies, forensics

money gets sent to the provider of the program

 

Preview: Starback  site (password protected)

Orleans has a content server that allows us to record the broadcast. 

 

Best way to connect is IP connection

 

Contact provider to see if it can be geared to a higher grade.

 

Quality of Video:

• compressed video (not as clear)
• eval. & review by provider
• open mike caused some problems in presentation
• we are not connected point to point, but a bridge (similar to telephone conf. bridge)
• signal is traveling over public internet'
• high def. chromache (at their studio)

 

Give 2 wk. advance notice

 

Laurie Hogle 817 740-3625

lhogie@esc11.net

 

JoAnn Roe (817)740-3607

jroe@esc11.net

 

Lori Hamm (817)740-3607

lhamm@esc11.net

 

Curriculum/Tech Roles (see handout)

• Curriculum

• Research programs & collaborations

• Contact staff & content providers

• information about programs

 

You can set up the LCD projector to keep a constant signal from one source.

 

Lance Ford is very good for training on Tanberg and works for them.

 

Test Call Form (see handout)

 

Search Engines (see handout)

http://www.tandberg.com/ind_focus/education/connections.isp

http://www.remc11.k12.mi.us/bcisd

 

Global Internet 2H.323

 

1. No one knows your system better than you do.

 

614-292-9191

support@oar.net

 

2. Have enough bandwidth (1/2 T-1)

Standard 768 kilobit

 

NEED 528-768 kilobit to make the connection good

 

3. Don't use handmade Ethernet cables!! Buy premade, pre determined cables. Use sysco, not Lyxsus

 

4. No hubs, use only switches and routers

 

5. Put video equipment outside the firewall. (assign it an external IP address)

 

6. All video equipment should have the latest software. fixes bugs in previous version or allows compatability H264 video is the newest version.

Keep up warranty. $800 / yr. on Tanberg

 

7. Test, test, test

 

Go back to superintendent and ask if he wants this or not.

 

George will come to our school and demonstrate a video conference.

 

Mark your Calendars NOW for Megaconference Jr.

Feb. 19, 2009

Secondary students will make this hapen 7am - 7 pm

http://megconferencejr.blogspot.com high school college (every university in the world will attend)

 

Cascading MCU bridges (we have our own) WE have the infrastructure.

 

Coder/De-cder is the video conferencing system.

 

Dual video can show laptop and person making the presentation

 

 

H323 new standard for video conferencing

TCPIP is the act of checking to see if all of the info has been received, Internet

UDP is the new protocol for sending signals for video conferencing

QOS quiality of service; should give priority to UDP. Guarantees the best bandwidth that is available. SYSCO has QOS built in.

 

Power up LCD, then camera coder/de-coder, self view will show if we have the camera connected or not.

 

iPc4 nomenclature (4 sets of numbers)

IPv6 (will add 6 or 7 more numbers; because we've run out of IP addresses)

 

e164 alias give a name like Lyndon Town School  (like DNS)

 

Servers or small computers

 

GATEKEEPER

BORDER CONTROLER

LRUHS has both of these to allow video conferencing.

NAT - network address translator; MUST BE SETUP PROPERLY, set up internal address to external; NAT reconverts to internal IP

PAT - port address translation (cable doesn't work because it's not interpreted correctly)

Gatekeeer downloads all phone books, etc. at once on our side of firewall

Border Controler is a box outside firewall which can freely communicate with outside world

 

Should co-locate bandwidth and spend $30.00/mo.#164 Alias needs to be the main school phone number. Settings should be password controlled.

Authentication ID - could be a school name.

 

Picture in Picture / General/ screen settings

or picture outside picture

 

Two ways to make call

74.10.86.21    * is the period on machine

hit red key 2x to  hang up

 

Numbers need to be placed in a permanent phone book

 

Bandwidth settings on AUTO grabs the largest bandwidth

 

ALSO can use webcam

 

For an individual computer you can use seresc

http://www.videoseresc.net

 

seresc $650.00/ year

$1250.00/ yr. for a full license

 

$75,000 multi point bridge