Comments on: Video Conferencing http://www.stephenp.net/2006/01/20/video-conferencing/ A specialist in inquiry-based, work-focussed, online supported learning Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:50:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Shirley Pickford http://www.stephenp.net/2006/01/20/video-conferencing/#comment-552 Shirley Pickford Mon, 23 Jan 2006 07:31:07 +0000 http://69.89.27.211/~stephep6/blog/2006/01/20/video-conferencing/#comment-552 Its amusing to see the way my 16 year old niece makes use of the video facility on MSN chat - its just a normal part of her evening to switch on the web cam and use video as part of her normal communication about the usual things that teenagers discuss after having socialised all day at school! Sometimes this even includes catching up with friends about homework. When schools get around to using video-conferencing, the pupils are likely to wonder what all the fuss is about as they've been doing it every evening for at least a year :-) Its amusing to see the way my 16 year old niece makes use of the video facility on MSN chat - its just a normal part of her evening to switch on the web cam and use video as part of her normal communication about the usual things that teenagers discuss after having socialised all day at school! Sometimes this even includes catching up with friends about homework. When schools get around to using video-conferencing, the pupils are likely to wonder what all the fuss is about as they’ve been doing it every evening for at least a year :-)

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