K-20 librarians interactive video conferencing

["Tony Ben'jammin' DeNardo III" <>]

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

I think we've done just about everything/anything that can be done with 
videoconferencing ;-)  Small meetings, large presentations, distance education and
virtual presence.  I'm interested in motivating our Librarians (I'm not one!) 
to
see the value in this technology and inspire them to use this tool to achieve 
their
vision of our academic research community.

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

Learning from others, and sharing anything we have that may be of value ;-)

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

As a technical resource with a significant infrastructure, how can we 
motivate others to
utilize h.323?  Our systems are quite underutilized!

On Tue, 6 Dec 2011, James Werle wrote:

> 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

Thanks,
TonyD

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Tony Ben'jammin' DeNardo III
Sage administrator
Library Technical Services, Morgan Library
Colorado State University
Campus Delivery 1018
Fort Collins, CO 80523
970 297 37 10

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