Video+Conferencing

=Video Conferencing =

What is video conferencing? Video Conferencing is a real-time exchange of audio & video between two or more remote facilities using hardware based technologies.


 * The following sites offer video conferencing programs and collaborations: that you can incorportate into your lessons: **

**Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration **
[] The CILC Collaboration Center is the venue for educators to meet, create a collaborative project, and share their reflections. Search current and past collaborations or post your own collaboration.

Polycom Program & Resources
Offering a range of programs and resources for education institutions, educators and students alike Polycom® Programs & Resources for Educators []

 Polycom provides a free searchable database which offers educators worldwide access to more than 2,100 programs from content providers, making available both ISDN- and IP-based video conferencing programs for the classroom. Updated daily, the database contains content opportunities from organizations such as zoos, museums, author's experts in the field and much more. Polycom partners with Berrien RESA to bring you this database.

MAGPI Higher Education Community
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 Higher education faculty, staff and students are challenging teaching and learning paradigms through innovative connections with other colleges, universities, research labs, performing arts centers and an immense array of other resources over advanced networks. Using **high definition videoconferencing**, professors conduct classes in real-time at multiple locations, or connect to guest lecturers from virtually anywhere in the world. Students and faculty are access and produce dvd-quality streaming video and sharing it through **advanced video initiatives**. Faculty and staff collaborate with their colleagues across the globe through **real-time collaboration** **technologies**. Institutions are developing **medical simulations** and **educational games**, **virtual worlds** and **virtual reality** opportunities for students at all age levels - - or **digitizing their collections** so that anyone can access them.