A presentation made at the Texas Distance Learning Association Conference, March 2008 and at the Texas Computer Education Association Conference, Febryary 2008

1. Welcome to Becoming a Virtual Tourist with Your Students! Presented by: Cindy Miller & Joe Johnston Frenship ISD

2. What’s Your Destination? You and your students can now travel to any destination right in your own classroom. How?

3. How to Plan Your Trip Online Where are you going? How are you getting to your destination? How long is it going to take to get there?

4. Where Are You Going? Looking for a way to maximize distance learning opportunities w/o a tremendous amount of cost to each campus. Looking for a way to integrate career awareness and exploration activities into academic curriculum.

5. How are you traveling to your destination? Introduced this new portable ITV unit to our district administration and campus principals at a meeting Bought one and provided training through AT&T’s Distance Learning Guru—Vicki Allen Had a competition

6. How long is it going to take to get there? AT&T helped us install the software and configure it with our network Work very closely with your Technology Director Then our C-Techs took off running and began scheduling the unit for their campus.

7. Traveling Schedule Information Event Name Purpose of the event Day of the event Start and end time of the event Name & location of remote site Remote contact person, phone & e-mail Receiving site person, phone & e-mail

8. Traveling Calendar Schedule

9. Some of our Traveling Destinations: Vanderbilt University for various conferences w/career professionals Smithsonian Institute Bronx Zoo NASA Texas Connect Community Heroes Texas State Aquarium

10. Meet Your New Traveling Buddy! VSX™ 7000s

11. VSX 7000s Features: Ideal for medium to large rooms of up to 40 people An all-in-one solution including SD PTZ camera Incredibly natural imaging using the latest in video technology & standards Embedded speaker & subwoofer for superior audio performance

12. VSX 7000s Benefits: Easily share presentations, movie files, audio clips and pictures Easily sits on top of any TV or XGA display Smooth, natural motion and sharp, clear images for optimal viewing Excellent audio & call clarity

13. VSX 7000s Disadvantages: Lighting in the room when using a projector Bandwidth use on campus—500K for a 384K call

15. Comments from our C-Techs: My teachers had many great ideas about using the portable ITV unit…would have liked to use it more if we had one on our campus—Frenship Middle School I really didn’t have time to sort through all of the opportunities…it is almost a full-time job doing that—Bennett Elem.

16. Comments from our C-Techs: I loved using it. It was time consuming finding sessions to go with the topics the teachers wanted to use…I think the time is well worth it.—Crestview Elem. I thought it was wonderful and know that my teachers really did too. Our only problem was that we had a difficult time finding events that we could attend since we only had one unit in the district…Willow Bend Elem.

17. Website for ITV Portable Unit www.polycom.com Vicki Allen with AT&T Director of Education Advocacy 208 S. Akard, Floor 12 Dallas, TX 75202 Office: 214-571-7984 Cell: 972-979-6871 Education—va9187@att.com