{"id":170,"date":"2016-10-25T13:45:24","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T17:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/citl\/?page_id=170"},"modified":"2019-01-23T15:34:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T20:34:02","slug":"video-conferencing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/citl\/homepage\/instructional-resources\/teaching-resources-2\/video-conferencing\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Conferencing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What are Video Conferencing Classrooms?<\/h2>\n

<\/a>We seek to ensure a rich video conference experience through the use of specialized classroom equipment and technology. We also work to provide appropriate design and layout of the physical space.<\/p>\n

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There are several classroom options across UMaine\u2019s\u00a0campuses that can be used for collaboration. These include seminar classrooms, mid\/large classrooms, and large lecture halls\/auditoriums. VC technology can accommodate all of these classrooms, but it is ideally suited for a seminar-size room. View the list of\u00a0UMS VC-equipped classrooms on all campuses.<\/a><\/strong> <\/a>In seminar-style VC classrooms, faculty and students are lit, microphoned, and on-camera at all times during the session. One or multiple cameras provide a panoramic, full-room view of all, or nearly all students so that instructors and students can see and be seen by the paired classroom. No one needs to manage cameras (to pan and zoom in on a speaker) or manage microphones.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Benefits of Teaching with Video Conferencing<\/h2>\n

If you have decided to use video conferencing as a collaboration tool for your course, consider using paired local environments to emphasize course topics in a geographically dispersed context.<\/p>\n

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From environmental science, to art history, to physics, students benefit from paired classrooms when they:<\/p>\n