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Examples of Videoconferencing at CCRI
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Intercampus/Interdisciplinary Courses
- The Global Seminar – Man and the Environment (SOCS 2080) is a distance learning seminar that provides students the opportunity to explore the dynamic linkages between sustainable development, food security, population, the environment and socio-economic progress from a global perspective. The course is team taught by faculty from four international institutions, coordinated by Cornell University. Three CCRI faculty representing Biology, Chemistry and Social Science are involved. Students across the different sites interact via an Internet-based course, along with satellite and videoconferencing technologies to analyze a series of interdisciplinary case studies related to global sustainable development. Teams of international students collaborate on a number of projects that are presented at the end of the semester.
View a demo of a Global Seminar monthly synchronous presentation from on campus
View a demo of a Global Seminar monthly synchronous presentation from off campusDr. Deborah Notarianni-Girard uses video conferencing to conduct her Intermediate French I course between two campuses. Using this strategy allows her to combine two under-enrolled sections from two different campuses into a single section that will have sufficient numbers to run.
View a 4-minute video of Dr. Notarianni-Girard's class from on campus
View a 4-minute video of Dr. Notarianni-Girard's class from off campus
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Guest Speakers
- Faculty have the opportunity to bring in
interesting guest speakers to interact with their students on topics
pertinent to their coursework. EID Solutions of Indiana used the
CCRI video conferencing to connect a Rhode Island toy designer,
Deon Knuckles, with middle and high school students from all over the United States.
During this series of video conferences Knuckles spoke about his career, toy and
animation design, toy manufacturing
as well as marketing. Knuckles used PowerPoint and a document camera
in each conference to show
his designs and toys in various stages of development. The
students were also able to show their toy designs to him for
his critique.
Watch a four minute video of a Career in Toy Design Video Conference (on campus)
Watch a four minute video of a Career in Toy Design Video Conference (off campus)
- Faculty have the opportunity to bring in
interesting guest speakers to interact with their students on topics
pertinent to their coursework. EID Solutions of Indiana used the
CCRI video conferencing to connect a Rhode Island toy designer,
Deon Knuckles, with middle and high school students from all over the United States.
During this series of video conferences Knuckles spoke about his career, toy and
animation design, toy manufacturing
as well as marketing. Knuckles used PowerPoint and a document camera
in each conference to show
his designs and toys in various stages of development. The
students were also able to show their toy designs to him for
his critique.
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Collaborative Projects
Videoconferencing makes it possible to join students and faculty from many institutions in collaborative projects. One example of this utilization is CCRI's Music Department participation the Slide Heard Round the World. The 2nd annual Slide Heard Round the World! was held on April 5-9, 2004. This event was a virtual gathering of trombonists through advanced technology. The Slide's 2004 schedule included a concert, a recital, two master classes, and a lecture. This year, more than two hundred people were involved from the following states: Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Mississippi, Kansas and Texas.
To see an excerpt of this program (a session performed by the Mississippi Trombone Alliance):
click on the word Stream
Click on the down arrow and choose "Wheaton" (instead of "administrator")
Click "Continue".
Scroll down and select the Mississippi Trombone
Alliance event.
Note that the stream will take a few moments to load and
there is some conversation before the concert begins.
