K-20 librarians interactive video conferencing

[James Werle <>]

All,

We're just two days away from the inaugural meeting of the "K-20
Librarian Videoconferencing Interest Group"!  Below is a draft agenda
and other details for our 1 hour meeting
on December 8th 11am PST/Noon MST/1pm CST/2pm EST.

DRAFT AGENDA:  (Designed based upon recent listserv discussions.
Please send suggestions for additional topics you'd like to cover.)

* Welcome (5 minutes)
* Use Case Discussion -  share examples of successful VC programming,
best practices, common challenges/solutions  (20 minutes)
* Funding sources for equipment - LSTA grants, others?  (10 minutes)
* Ideas for a national collaborative project between libraries using
VC  (10 minutes)
* Next steps for our new group (10 minutes)
* Other business? (5 minutes)

- ROLE CALL and VIRTUAL INTROS

* On the day of the meeting, I'd like to ask each participant to visit
the following google doc and place an "x" in column A or B indicating
whether you're joining via phone or video - http://bit.ly/w024u0.
This will serve as our attendee roster of record for the meeting (and
with over 40 confirmed participants, we'll save valuable meeting time
by avoiding round robin introductions).  If your name is not listed,
please feel free to add yourself.

* Thanks to everyone who have already virtually introduced themselves
to the group.  We'd love to hear from the everyone else in advance of
the meeting!  Please consider posting responses to the following
questions to the listserv to help break the ice:

1) Please describe your past experience or interest in using
videoconferencing within your organization.

2) What's the most important thing you hope to get out of
participating in this group?

3) Are there specific questions, topics, collaborative activities
you'd like the group to explore together?


- JOINING VIA PHONE

 * Dial  614-827-9290 (sorry, no 1-800 number available)

- JOINING VIA VIDEO CONFERENCING

* MAGPI and KANRen are generously providing MCU bridging for this
meeting.  By now everyone should have completed testing to either
bridge and have instructions on how to connect on 12/8.  If you have
additional questions about how to connect to your respective bridge,
please get in touch with Jennifer and Randy.

MAGPI - Jennifer Oxenford, 

KanREN - Randy Stout, 


I'm looking forward to an exciting discussion on Thursday!

Sincerely,
James

James Werle
Director, Internet2 K20 Initiative

360-499-2069
http://k20.internet2.edu