Contacts

It is really easy to find other teachers or schools ready to share a class via videoconference all over the world. Although there are not many in Spain there are a lot of international initiatives for contacting and developing collaborative projects. Once we have checked that your equipment works properly, don’t be afraid and let’s go…

• Colegio Erain
  The easiest way to do your first videoconference: contact us. Tell us which system you want to use and we will try to give you a hand. Write (erain@erain.es) and we will decide how to do the first contact.
• Global-Leap, Videoconferencing in the classroom
  This is a site for teachers all over the world. You can find help to enter the world of educational videoconferences. It has a large database with centres and institutions with these technologies all over the world. Monthly they offer lots of topic related videoconferences to subscribers (free subscription). The connection is paid by the schools and some providers charge some little money per session. The head of this project -Mike Griffith- offers himself to have a first videoconference with the new subscribers.
  In this web you can also find detailed explanations on how to make a videoconference. It has an automatic system to check your IP or ISDN connection.
• Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC)
  This centre helps to improve communication, collaboration and learning. They offer experiences of videoconferences and they encourage educational sessions and collaboration among centres. The subscribers are mainly from North America but there are also many from other countries. They have a list of providers with the sessions they give. These sessions have a positive or negative assessment from those who have attended them. This way you can have an idea of how interesting they are. Some sessions are free but not all of them. They also help to contact other schools.
• eTwinning: School partnerships in Europe
  With eTwinning the EU wants to encourage the associations between two schools from different European countries so that both members take the most of the possibilities of the technologies of information and communication (TIC) in order to collaborate and obtain educational, social and cultural benefits. Here you can easy find schools all over the world that want to have videoconferences.
• Videoconferencing for Learning website
  A good site about videoconferences in education. It has lots of advises and a database with schools all over the world. You can subscribe and find other schools for videoconferencing.
• GlobalSchoolNet
  A site about collaborative projects. It has got a section of videoconferences using different software for PC (NetMeeting, IVisit, etc.) It also has a discussion group to make possible meetings among schools to organise videoconferences.
• VIEW
  This institution facilitates the relations among teachers and lots of providers of videoconferences (museums, zoos, bookshops…). It encourage the collaboration among them so that they can organise videoconferences about topics integrated in the academic contents. It also facilitates contacts among several schools from New York.
  Each provider establishes its fees per session.
• Cooperating School Districts' (CSD)
  Lots of links of sites about educational videoconferences. Some of them are schools that have done lots of videoconferences and they have videos of them.
• Grupo Educativo Marín
  They are making ISDN videoconferences since 1999 (about 15 every year) with schools from UK, USA… The offer “on-demand videos” of videoconferences, institutional videos, educational videos…
  They don’t give many ideas about educational videoconferences but you can watch some videoconferences and you can see how they use them.
  They show the names of the schools they have made videoconferences with.
• Mathematics videoconfenrences for schools
  They offer videoconferences about mathematics. Schools must pay for the sessions.
• The Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE)
  They offer advice to non-profit schools from Rhode Island (USA). They facilitate the internet connection and they help with the needs of technology. They have a list of centres that have made videoconferences and some of them are available on video.
• Nassau BOCES
  They offer advice to schools from Nassau District (New York, USA). They show examples of videoconferences. They have lists of schools and centres that offer educational videoconferences. They also have a Web Quest about the first steps in the world of videoconferences.
• Videoconferencing Services (BOCES)
  They offer advice and facilitate contacts to schools fromn NE of New York State.
• La Salle
  List of schools, universities and institutes of this institution that are ready to make videoconferences.
• eSchoolnet: The European Teachers Portal
  This is one of the sites supported by the European Community in order to encourage collaborative projects among schools. In this site teachers can contact other European teachers and share resources and experiences…
• eSchola
  They offer the possibility of joining in a teacher community and centres from Europe and beyond. Teachers and students can meet, share ideas and make collaborative projects.
• Vanderbilt Virtual School
  This community (founded in Tennessee, USA in 1991) has more than 30.000 teachers interested in collaborative projects. Some universities collaborate here.
• SBC
  A good site about educational videoconferences. It has lots of ideas and suggestions and it also has a database with centres all over the world: you can subscribe and find other schools to make a videoconference.