This post is an attempt at documenting the history of the 123 VC: Jazzing Up Your Curriculum with Videoconferencing workshop. I’ll include who participated that year, and any major contributions/changes from that year. Please comment and correct and suggest additions as needed!

Updated 8/3/2010.

2005

Participants

• Lamar Consolidated ISD, Rosenberg, TX, Ken Conn
• Paris ISD, TX, Bennie Tschoerner
• Berrien County ISD, Janine Lim

Uniqueness

• Schedule: Monday am intro to VC, Tues am Academic Challenges, Wed am MysteryQuest Beaches in the morning and ASK as a guest speaker in the afternoon, Thu am exchange simulation
• Moodle on Bennie’s server
• First time that MysteryQuest Beaches was used in a workshop
• First attempt at cross site groups, inspired by Carol Fleck and Kim Perry‘s presentation at Keystone 2004

2006

Participants

• Lamar Consolidated ISD/Data Projections, Rosenberg, TX (Ken Conn and October Smith) (lead)
• El Paso ISD, TX (Ashton Graham)
• ESC Region 8, Mt. Pleasant TX (Adam Martinez and Vicki Allen)
• NYC DOE Region 4, New York (Andrea Israeli)
• Berrien County ISD, MI (Janine Lim) (lead)
• Cooperating School Districts, St. Louis, MO (Rebecca Morrison, Ruth Block and Martha Bogart)
• ESC Region 12, Waco TX (Roxanne Glaser and Shane Howard)
• Temple ISD, TX (Paula Yezak)

Uniqueness

• First year of two simultaneous groups joining together
• Roxanne Glaser consolidated handouts into one file for the handbook, a major contribution
• First year of the quick contact list and connection charts (thanks to Roxanne)
• Settled on the morning simulations: Monday exchange, Tuesday Math Marvels, Wednesday MysteryQuest, Thursday ASK.
• Guest speakers were: Monday: Paul Hieronymous with his Jeopardy game; Tuesday:  Teacher Testimonials with Stacy Bethel, Kim Pearce, and Pam Hamilton; Wed: CSD with Racial Dialogs and Trial by Wire and Andrea Israeli with Poetry Slam; Thu: GNG and Robert Symberlist from UKERNA

2007

June Participants

• Berrien County ISD, MI (Janine Lim) (lead)
• ESC Region 12, Waco TX (Roxanne Glaser and Shane Howard)
• El Paso, TX (Ashton Graham)

July Participants

• Lamar Consolidated ISD/Data Projections, Rosenberg, TX (Ken Conn and October Smith) (lead)
• El Paso, TX (Ashton Graham)
• NCOESC, OH (Kathy Mohr)
• Berrien County ISD, MI (Janine Lim) (c0-lead)
• ESC Region 12, Waco TX (Roxanne Glaser and Shane Howard) (co-lead)
• ESC 8, TX (Jodie Ingram, Melodie Wahlert, Adam Martinez)
• ESC 10, TX (Vicki Allen, Lori Colwill, Bob Avant)

Uniqueness

• Roxanne started us using Flickr to build community
• The year of the cockroaches
• First year with two sessions: June and July
• The June session was an experiment in doing Jazz in 4 days instead of 5
• Guest speakers: Monday Greenbush, Tuesday Teacher Testimonials and the Shane Howard show, Wednesday Global Nomads, Thursday CSD, MO and NOECA, OH

2008

June Participants

• Berrien County ISD, MI, Janine Lim (lead)
• EduTech, ND, Kim Owen and Tabitha Lang
• El Paso ISD, TX, Ashton Graham
• Torfaen LEA, Wales, Steve Roberts
• ESC Region 12, Waco, TX Roxanne Glaser and Shane Howard (lead)
  
• Humble ISD, TX, Angela Conrad
• Dallas ISD, TX, Lori Colwill

July Participants

• Berrien RESA, MI, Janine Lim (lead)
• ESC Region 7, Kilgore, TX, Mary Smith and Glenda Hickey
• El Paso ISD, TX, Ashton Graham
• ESC Region 12, Waco, TX Roxanne Glaser and Shane Howard (lead)
• NCO ESC, OH, Kathy Mohr
• Fort Bend ISD, TX, Sally Staner
• Lamar Consolidated ISD/Data Projections, Rosenberg, TX (Ken Conn and October Smith) (lead)
• ESC Region 8, Mt. Pleasant, TX, Jodi Ingram and Melodie Wahlert
• GST BOCES, NY, René Carver
• Dallas ISD, TX, Lori Colwill and Vicki Allen

Uniqueness

• First year with the UK time zone (Wales participation)
• First year with three groups in July
• Guest speakers: Monday: LEARNnco and Cleveland Museum of Art, Tuesday Teacher Testimonials, Wednesday Global Nomads, Thursday The Shane Howard Show and Kigluait Adventures

2009

June Participants

• Berrien RESA, MI, Janine Lim (lead)
• Torfaen LEA, Wales, Steve Roberts
• SCOCA, OH, Melissa Higgs-Horwell
• ESC Region 7, Kilgore, TX, Mary Smith
• Hays CISD, TX, Christie Rickert
• Dallas ISD, TX, Lori Colwill (lead)
• El Paso ISD, TX, Ashton Graham
• Fort Bend ISD, Corlette Hill
• SD 73, Kamloops, BC, Tracy Poelzer

July Participants

• Lamar Consolidated ISD/Data Projections, Rosenberg, TX (Ken Conn and October Smith) (lead)
• NCO ESC, OH, Kathy Mohr and Paul Hieronymous
• Gladewater ISD, OH
• Dallas ISD, TX, Lori Colwill, (lead)
• El Paso, TX Ashton Graham
• Region 4, TX, Diane Edgar
• EduTech, ND, Kim Owen and Tabitha Lang
• ESC Region 12, Waco, TX Roxanne Glaser and Shane Howard (lead)
• Fort Bend ISD, TX, Sally Staner
• GST BOCES, René Carver

Uniqueness

• First year with the Pacific time zone (British Columbia as new participating site)
• First year of the twitter/flickr fountain on the home page and the #jazzivc tag
• Switched from posting projects on CollaborativeVCs.pbworks.com to GoogleSites (one site per lead facilitator)
• Guest speakers: Monday: James Tapankov of VC7 and  LEARNnco; Tuesday: San Francisco Giants and NASA; Wednesday: Global Nomads Group; Thursday: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Shane Howard.

2010

June Participants

• Berrien RESA, MI, Janine Lim (lead)
• Hays CISD, TX (Christie Rickert)
• Killeen ISD, TX (Debbie Alston)
• Torfaen LEA, Wales (Lisa Bodenham and Steve Roberts)
• Dallas ISD, TX, Lori Colwill (lead)
• EduTech, ND, Kim Owen and Tabitha Lang
• El Paso ISD, TX, Ashton Graham
• SD 73, Kamloops, BC, Tracy Poelzer

July Participants

• Lamar Consolidated ISD/Data Projections, Rosenberg, TX (Ken Conn and October Smith) (lead)
• NORT2H, (Paul Hieronymous)
• Gladewater ISD, OH (Glenda Hickey)
• El Paso, TX (Ashton Graham)
• Dallas ISD, TX, Lori Colwill, (lead)
• Berrien RESA, MI (Janine Lim)
• CNYRIC, NY (Amy Spath)
• Fort Bend ISD, TX (Corlette Hill and team)

Uniqueness

• Switched the website from Moodle to Joomla
• First year of the application to participate
• Guest speakers: Monday: The Mariners’ Museum and NASA; Tuesday: South Central Kansas ESC (June) and Kigluait Adventures (July) and Fort Worth Museum of Science and History; Wednesday: Global Nomads Group; Thursday: Teacher Testimonials hosted by GST BOCES and the Shane Howard show.

Graph of Participation

The following graph shows the total number of sites each year. If a site was in the June and July session both, they are counted two times.

Reflection Question:

Those of you who have participated in Jazz, what am I missing? What do you see as the greatest contribution of Jazz to your use of videoconferencing? Those of you who haven’t participated in Jazz, what questions are raised?