Video conferencing in Education:

High Speed WAN and PowerPlay combine for an award winning solution for El Paso Independent School District
On May 2, at the Kennedy Space Center, The Astronauts Memorial Foundation (The AMF) honored Mr. Charles Geach as its 2004 recipient of The Alan Shepard Technology in Education Award. Named after Alan Shepard, one of our nation’s original seven Mercury astronauts, the first American to fly in space, one of only 12 humans who has walked on the moon, and a former AMF board member, this award recognizes the educator who demonstrates excellence in the development and delivery of educational technology programs…More-->

Alvin Independent School District, Alvin, TX
With a growing school district and heightened need for teachers, Alvin Independent School District, of Alvin Texas was looking for a simplified way to model teaching strategies and mentor new teachers in areas such as mathematics, by sharing techniques and expertise on effectively managing a classroom…More-->

Spring Branch Independent School District, Houston, TX
As part of implementing a high speed data networking capability with Time-Warner and BNI, SBISD also put in place four BNI supplied EDCOMM™ interactive classrooms. In late 1999, these were replaced with PowerPlay™ rollabout carts, along with the addition of ten new sites. The current network configuration includes a "gateway" connection to the University of Texas Medical Center… More-->

Link to London - Distance Learning Program Conducts Class at The Globe Theater.
The goal of Westchester Academy for International Studies is to increase student awareness of other parts of the world. That is exactly what was achieved when the school participated in a live video conference between Shakespeare's Globe Theater in London and its ninth and tenth grade English classes in suburban Houston, Texas … More-->

Rural Colorado school districts use technology to address teacher shortage.
The Southeast Colorado Consortium (BOCES) is comprised of 13 school districts in a 6,000 sq. mile area in rural Colorado. It is common to see schools 150-200 miles apart with less than 100 students K-12 within the BOCES service area. These sparsely populated school districts provide an additional challenge to educating students… More-->

Distance Learning Success in Rural Southeast Nebraska.
In July of 1997, the state of Nebraska awarded BNI Solutions and Galaxy Cablevision a contract to build a fiber-based distance learning network in the southeastern quadrant of the state. The network initially connected 25 sites in a 120 square mile area. An additional 35 schools will come on-line in 1998 with the potential to expand to as many as 200 sites… More-->

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