GST Virtual Office Hours

I enjoy our Virtual Office Hours because teachers in our region use them for so many reasons. You can request our IP Address and contact us by video conference to talk about curriculum-based video conference projects.

Today we connected with Maria Gimma, a S-VE secondary Spanish teacher, and her students to discuss strategies for an upcoming IVC project where Mrs. Gimma's students will teach Spanish to elementary students. The students were looking for ideas to make the IVC engaging for young students. Kelley Batrowny demonstrated an interactive game to teach Spanish vocabulary and I suggested the use of pictures on a document camera, or a PowerPoint, to help students visualize vocabulary.

We also discussed collaborative project ideas that they could do with other secondary classes. She mentioned that she would like to have students read a book and video conference with another class about it. We suggested using the project template "Videoconference + Web 2.0 Projects" from the booklet "Planning Kid2Kid Video Conference Projects" as a template for that project.

Keep in mind that you can call our video conference equipment for IVC strategies, project ideas, to practice with the remote and equipment, or to talk about life in general. :-)

If you would like our IP Address, please email us: DL@gstboces.org

What are some strategies that you use for keeping a video conference interactive? We'd love to hear from you!