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Videoconferencing has enabled
KE7 to open up new dimensions for students and new opportunities for teachers.
Across Europe, KE7 students studying German
are linked to German students studying English. Each week, they practice each other’s
language and improve their own communications skills while talking with peer groups.
French will be next, followed by Italian, Spanish and Asian languages.
Throughout the world, KE7 students and
faculty have participated in a range of video conferences. In a multipoint link with three
schools in the United States, the students talked to each other about their lives,
describing and showing their favourite foods, discussing the pop music scene and playing
songs. In another example, the KE7 students connected over video with a
teachers’ conference in Denmark which enabled the students and teachers to talk about
environmental issues and hear about plans for an Antarctic expedition.
In England, KE7 even uses video conferencing
for teacher training, linking groups of teachers such as science faculty or humanities
teachers, to learn new methods of teaching.
The school is so advanced in ICT that it was
the only school in the UK to receive a special grant from the European Union. KE7 will be
the centre of a four-country program to develop multimedia / videoconferencing materials
for training teachers in science, modern languages and mathematics.
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King
Edward VII School is supported by ADV and is a key
Education reference site in the UK for both ADV Communications and VTEL.
The
school has a long and distinguished history of educating generations of
young adults. By sharing its extensive community sports, study, and
Information and Communications Technology (ICT), King Edward VII is also
seen as a natural focus for people of the area.
The school established a VTEL
videoconferencing suite in its Independent Learning Centre that...