Video Conferencing In The Near Future

Technology is developing more and more right before our eyes. Video Conferencing has become one the newest, biggest ways to communicate. Starting out mainly for use in business, video conferencing could soon be used in schools across the country.

New technologies such as videoconferencing bring new ways for teachers to work with students and encourage the development of strategies more consistent with the emerging technology. Although the use of videoconferencing is fairly new to the classroom there are numerous ways which creative educators have already found to use this new medium. Videoconferencing is an interactive communication medium which lets students and teachers have a visual connection to those they are working with whether they are down the hall, across the street or on the other side of the globe. With the introduction of low cost conferencing systems, which permit the use of inexpensive cameras and low cost or free software such as the Cornell version of CU-SeeMe, videoconferencing will be in the hands of even more educators as the Internet becomes more available in the school setting.

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