It’s time for the 3rd annual 20 Day Challenge on videoconferencing topics, written by Roxanne Glaser and Janine Lim!
This year we tackle the complicated and challenging area of the technical aspects of videoconferencing. In K12 education, it’s often hard to find someone with knowledge of how standards-based (H.323) videoconferencing interacts with the district network. This can cause quality issues that present a barrier to educators and teachers who want to use videoconferencing. So for the next 20 days of blog posts, we’ll be sharing some best practices and background knowledge of how videoconferencing works on your network.
Target Audience
Our target audience for this series includes:
- Educational service agency personnel involved with videoconferencing
- District technology coordinators and technicians involved with making videoconferencing work on the network
- School level educators who need enough background knowledge to effectively communicate with network folks
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Archive
Here is the archive of posts for the 2011 Challenge:
- Day 1: Talk Like a Techie: 20 Day VC Challenge
- Day 2: Understanding Video Conference Technical Terms
- Day 3: How to Determine Public vs. Private IP Addresses
- Day 4: Making H.323 Videoconferencing Work on a Network
- Day 5: How to Manage Your Bandwidth
- Day 6: 5 Things That Can Make Your Videoconference Look Horrible
- Day 7: Working With Your Firewall Traversal Unit
- Day 8: The Secret of Optimizing the Network for Videoconferencing
- Day 9: Gatekeepers: The Good, The Bad, The Necessary
- Day 10: How to Manage Numerous Units Without Losing Your Mind
- Day 11: How to Dial with a Polycom Remote
- Day 12: How to Dial with a Cisco-TANDBERG Remote
- Day 13: How to Dial with a LifeSize Remote
- Day 14: Dialing Tips for the Polycom RMX
- Day 15: Dialing Tips for the Codian MCU
- Day 16: Top 10 Basic Audio and Video Troubleshooting Tips for Videoconferencing
- Day 17: Top 5 Basic Network Troubleshooting Tips
- Day 18: Questions to Ask When Purchasing Video Conference Equipment
- Day 19: Information to Keep by the Video Conference Unit
- Day 20: Why We Use Video Conferencing in K12 Classrooms
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