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About This Site

This site is designed to guide you towards the best uses of videoconferencing for instructional purposes. It is divided into five major sections:

An introduction to instructional videoconferencing.
What to do before, during, and after a videoconferencing session.
Materials, checklists and other tools you can use to assist you.

Acknowledgements

We wish to thank the following individuals at Penn State for providing reference materials that were instrumental in the development of this document:

Allan Gyorke, Carol McQuiggan, Ann H. Taylor, Alan Hecht, Stephanie Jansen, Mark Heckel, Jim Salvaggio, Peg Shuffstall, Brett Bixler, Joe Scott, Lisa Urban, Patty Nordstrom, Kris Benefield, Shannon Keenan, Jackie Sabol, and Erica Kunkel.

In particular, the Faculty Guide to Teaching through Videoconferencing prepared by Allan Gyorke in 2006 was heavily referenced, and he in turn built that guide by referencing the writings and efforts of many others at Penn State.

Ann H. Taylor provided us with many relevant documents she has used to teach videoconferencing skills at Penn State.

Brett Bixler coordinated a major rewrite with many additions in 2014, and updated the text-based document again in 2017.

In 2018, a Videoconferencing Guide Subcommittee of the Faculty/Staff Engagement and Professional Development Committee, part of the Penn State Online Coordinating Council, was formed to update the guide and convert it into its present, Web-based form. The Videoconferencing Guide Subcommittee consisted of Brett Bixler (chair), Shannon Keenan, Jackie Sabol, and Erica Kunkel.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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