The Avon Local Schools were proud to be a part of the SOITA (Southwestern Ohio Instructional Technology Association) Conference at the Dayton Convention Center without leaving my office in Avon, Ohio. With a short month in December and an all day in-service the next day this would have been impossible to be done onsite. Instead I was able to practice what I preach and provide the audience with the same if not a better presentation from my office.
The topic was getting the most out of your videoconferencing system. The focus of this session was classroom to classroom collaborations and other uses for your IVC unit. We started the session off with an exciting game of IVDL jeopardy and discuss the various ways that my district uses IVC to enhance (not replace) our existing curricula. Video clips from team teaching and classroom projects were used to demonstrate our usage. A special visit from “Duct Tape Man” demonstrated that multiple video formats can be used with any vender’s product as we tried to show that it is the content that makes the videoconference.
I hope that the audience enjoyed the presentation and that it leads to future IVC collaborations. We hope to see our friends in Southwest Ohio online again in the future.
Thanks again SOITAhttp://www.soita.org/
