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From: Peter_Loney@act.educ.ualberta.ca (Peter Loney)
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 05:42:56 GMT
Organization: University of Alberta
Message-ID: <00177.2803164748.51649@act.educ.ualberta.ca>
Newsgroups: mlist.icdecc-m
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  FWD>Bankok CMC - U of A Visit Project           
>We are starting a multi-phase trial project of the VISIT desk top
>videoconferencing technology with Field Services and selected
schools in Edmonton Public.  The trial will attempt to bring the
school classroom into the university classroom and vice versa,
using voice-mail, E-mail, desktop videoconferencing, file transfer,
and screen sharing.  We're attempting an alternative to the
traditional practicum model (one student, one school classroom,
no acculturation) with this and see particular applications in 
remote practicum placements. videoconferencing technology
with Field Services and selected schools in Edmonton Public.
The trial will attempt to bring the school classroom into the
university classroom and vice versa, using voice-mail, E-mail,
desktop videoconferencing, file transfer, and screen sharing. 
We're attempting an alternative to the traditional practicum
model (one student, one school classroom, no acculturation)
with this and see particular applications in remote practicum
placements. 
 
Just some additional information about the new practicum model
I noted earlier, and a comment.  To wit:  Canada is supposedly
a developed country and telephone communications are pretty iffy.
We've had lots of trouble with the RITE system this year, for
example.  In fact, given the variety and age of exisitng bridges,
phone sets, convenors, etc., it's amazing we don't have major
trouble on every teleconference!  I think another problem is that
telephone technology is so ubiquitous that users don't realize 
that there are learned skills in its (competent) use.  
 
Anyway, we are ready now to implement phase I of the VISIT project. 
We will be supplying 5 students on a practicum placement with
Powerbooks that have been loaded with Word, Excel, and Mactie.
They'll each have an individual ID for Profs and hopefully the 
library system.  A number of structured workshops, in-school, 
will be provided (for example, how to make transparencies using
Word) and structured activities will require them to e-mail each
other and their faculty consultant, join conferences, etc.  This
may or may not lead to the following VISIT trial at the same school,
where we will compare conferencing with video to conferencing
without, as one example.  One way we can bypass all the telephone
stuff is by setting up each Powerbook (they all have installed
modems) so that students can dial in simply by clicking on an
icon.....



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