There are many resources on the Internet related to videoconferencing. While this list is by no means exhaustive, these are the resources that we have found most useful. Please feel free to contact us regarding other resources or suggestions that you think would be useful to others. You may also use our KNE Feedback form to send suggestions.

Presentation Skills/Room Design
Videoconferencing Technology/Equipment
IP Videoconferencing
Streaming Technology
Distance Learning/Research
Projects/Who's Doing It
Magazines
Newsgroups/E-Mailing Lists

Examples | Instructional Strategies |
Multipoint | Compressed Video | Equipment |
Communication Skills | Planning | Evaluating

• Video Conferencing Cookbook Table of Contents, an online manual providing detailed information and suggestions to help institutions select video hardware and software, create videoconference spaces, and conduct videoconferences.
• Blueprint for Interactive Classrooms is about "designing and building interactive classrooms for teaching distant learners ... which allow teachers and learners to interact over a variety of telecommunications networks in a cost-effective and pedagogically sound manner. "
• Teaching via Interactive Videoconferencing, some things you need to know with pictures from Virginia Tech. Also take a look at their various room designs.

• Polycom's Support including Top Ten Questions and Answers.
• "Videoconferencing lures, reassures" an article from CNN.com (June 13, 2002).
• About.com's H.323 Networking Protocol hotlist of H.323 sites. See also Basic Networking, and the IP Tutorial.
• Planning Information covers some areas that many others don't -- staff, budget, and logistics -- from Digital Bridges. Their site guide provides a great list of other items to consider.
• "Hardware or Software? Wading the Video Stream" by Darrin Woods; a long, technical article about servers, software, capture cards, and such. NetworkComputing (2002).
• From Colin E. Manning, What is compression? Part of a presentation on digital compression called Video Compression Explained.
• Networked Video Surveillance and Compression Technology (2002).
• Wainhouse Research state by state analysis entitled "Taking the Wraps Off Videoconferencing in the U.S. Classroom." Part of the Wainhouse Research white papers.

• Video over IP from the Siemon Company
• Check out this tutorial from Michigan State University College of Education and Ameritech called Internet Teleconferencing Module.
• Videoconferencing over the Internet, an overview of technology and equipment by Edward A. Garay, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2001.
• H.323 basics from Wisconsin VCS Videoconference Services.
• H.323 Primer from DataBeam (a pdf).
• Wainhouse Research up to date research including reports and whitepapers.
• VNS Video-Over-IP Guidelines Firewall Configuration - darn those pesky firewalls! Maybe this will help.

Streaming Technology

• Multimedia Seeds is available to anyone who wants to learn more about audio, video, and visual resources. Includes tutorials, collection development, production, and effective use. From Eduscapes.
• Desktop Video Editing Articles from About.com
• Does Streaming Media Need Standards? An article from ZDNet UK, November 03, 2003.
• The Windows Media Knowledge Center page is a great place to start learning how to use Microsoft's Windows Media tools.
• The webTeacher tutorial on movie formats.
• Introduction to Streaming Video, May 2001, David Cunningham and Neil Francis report on the technologies available, as well as some of the problems encountered when trying to stream video content across the Internet.
• Designing Internetworks for Multimedia, a very dry but indepth overview of designing and using networked multimedia applications; including bandwidth, quality of service requirements, multicasting, Internet Group Management Protocol, and several routing protocols.
• Wikipedia's Streaming media article
• There are many online magazines concerned to streaming. Some of them are:
  • Videomaker
  • www.StreamingMedia.com
  • Multimedia & Internet@Schools

Distance Learning

• Distance Education at a Glance presents guides for everything from learning strategies to technology.
• Distance Education Clearinghouse allows users easy access to a wide range of information about distance education. This web site brings together distance education information and resources from Wisconsin, national, and international sources. New information and resources are being added to the Distance Education Clearinghouse on a continuing basis.
• Distance Learning Resource Network offers current research, news items, and covers Star Schools projects and K-12 courses offered at a distance. Visitors can use the searchable database to find current information on the courses and resources available from the Star Schools projects, or peruse the library to find a variety of useful information on Distance Learning topics.
• The United States Distance Learning Association promotes the development and application of distance learning for education and training. Constitutents include K-12 education, higher education, continuing education, corporate training, and military and government training.
• Teaching and Learning at a Distance from Eduscapes. Includes 11 tips for success.
• Center for Distance Learning Research from Texas A & M
• Distance Learning Research & Theory from eLearners.com
• TeAchnolgy Distance Learning resources includes links to research, portals, and more

• Project Videonet, a California Public Library Videoconferencing Network cooperative project among 40 public libraries supported by an Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant. Here is a link to archived webcasts.
• Check out YouTubes videos results for 'videoconferencing' search.
• Two Way Interactive Connections in Education (TWICE) is Michigan's organization for videoconferencing in K-12 education. TWICE promotes and supports collaborative connections for the benefit of all students.
• Vanderbilt Virtual School matches curriculum needs with educational standards and links K-12 classrooms to resources beyond their four walls.
• Keystone Conference archived videos "Interactive VideoConferencing: Igniting Opportunities for Learning."
• Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC) consulting services, tools and resources, and access to professional development experts and student programs to help you reach your goals.

• Converge Online from e.Republic.
• Try the EDUCAUSE Resource Center Search for access to a wide variety of articles, documents, websites, etc. on distance learning and technology. EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.
• eSchool News is a monthly online newspaper of events, issues, key players, products, services, and strategies necessary to help K-12 decision-makers. Also covers the business and political issues impacting school technology.
• Technology & Learning magazine providing administrators, technology professionals, and teachers with comprehensive, relevant, and authoritative information on technology trends, new products, news, and funding sources for their technology programs.

• EDUCAUSE list of discussion groups. Educause is primarily higher ed; but technology and learning is at the root of all discussions.
• Videoconferencing Out on a Lim from Janine Lim includes links to other VC blogs. See also Program Lists for reviews of various VC programs.
• Videoconference Opportunities for KUSD a kiosk for comments and thoughts related to educational videoconferencing.
• TechLearning Blog
• How to Videoconference podcast within a blog from Manager Tools.
• Videoconference Tips and Techniques ideas for better videoconferences from Carol Daunt, LearnTel, Australia