Conference Calls

The instructor in the video shows how to use new internet conference technology. The students are then dealt the task of teaching this information to another party to demonstrate their own understanding, all of which is part of following the Technology Compentency standards. The student doing this demonstration seems to have a very good grasp on the program to set up conference networks. The subject of the conference is diversity issues in Iowa (yep). This technology being shown in the video is the ancestor of distance learning technology, which I was a part of in a type of conference room in high school. The interface we used in high school was not very effective, but this was mostly due to the inability to match curricula and schedules with other schools rather than shortcomings of the technology. It probably works even better now than 6 years ago when I was in high school.