Video Conferencing Services

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Video Conferencing Services and Curriculum
Initiatives David Raymond Northern Grid for
Learning and Paul Rickeard Bailey Green
Primary School
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North Tyneside South Tyneside Hartlepool Middlesbr
ough Stockton Darlington Redcar and Cleveland
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• One of 10 Regional Broadband Consortia
• In existence since 2001
• Seven Local Authority partners in NE
• 100 broadband connectivity
• Wide range of curriculum content and services
• Video conferencing since 2004

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• VC development in partnership with
• Schools
• Local Authorities
• Easynet Ltd ISP
• Videonations Ltd Installation, management
• Supported by
• UKERNA - JVCS
• BECTA

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Scenario A school in Northern Grid wishes to
VC with a school in South West Grid
Schools in the region who wish to video
conference are registered on Northern Grid's VC
equipment and also with JVCS
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The Northern Grid school is registered with
our gatekeeper
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The SW Grid school is registered with their
gatekeeper
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Northern Grid and SW Grid gatekeepers are
registered with UKERNA gatekeeper
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Video conference booked through JVCS is
managed without complicated technical demands on
participants
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• Curriculum Project
• Focus
• Appropriate activities
• Comparison of different cost endpoints
• Use of JVCS booking system
• Use of teacher personal portals
• Funded by Northern Grid and BECTA
• Involves primary schools in all our LA's
• Case studies on Northern grid Portal
• http//www.northerngrid.org

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• Activities included
• VC with existing e-mail buddies
• Rain forest conference with Natural History
  Museum
• Performing radio jingles to VC partners
• Sharing art work with partner schools
• VC with the Royal Observatory
• VC with the Imperial War Museum

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• Bailey Green Primary School
• North Tyneside
• A classroom perspective