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Schools have many viable options in Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS), but no systems are yet mature for videoconferencing. The links below provide access to some that can be used today and others that bear watching. Most, if not all, of these systems will require headsets with microphones for individual use or echo-cancelling microphones for group use.
This module presents part of the content from a full-day workshop designed to help classroom teachers understand the videoconferencing options available to them through broadband Internet. While the focus of the workshop has been on education, other community organizations should be aware of the potential benefits they also may enjoy.
Every medical center, firehouse, police station, government center, library, and retirement center can find many cost-effective applications for videoconferencing (just replace "school" with your organization in the descriptions that follow).
The development of the original workshops and of this web resource was assisted by the generous support of the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED).
Interconnected ~photo by Henkster
Videoconferencing used to link institutions, but now it can link people across the world as easily as across a school district. I've had the pleasure of teaching students across the globe from my living room chair.
In these times of global competition and global warming; of energy and food crises; of frightening terrorism, genocide and war; there is no greater need than to understand each other better. Videoconferencing is the best tool we have to visit other cultures and to meet and talk with people who may look and speak in unfamiliar ways.
Videoconferencing takes your students into the world as it
brings the world in to your classroom.
--Scott Garrigan