{"id":124,"date":"2011-05-24T11:46:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T15:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/facultyfocus\/?p=124"},"modified":"2013-06-19T16:26:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T20:26:31","slug":"making-connections-videoconferencing-in-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facultyfocus\/2011\/05\/24\/making-connections-videoconferencing-in-the-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Connections: Videoconferencing in the Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>GERM 230 &amp; 355 and CLCS 301<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Taught by:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vassar.edu\/contact.html?n=Contact%20Silke%20von%20der%20Emde&amp;e=vonderemde\">Silke von der Emde<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facultyfocus\/files\/2011\/05\/vonderEmde.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-217\" alt=\"vonderEmde\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facultyfocus\/files\/2011\/05\/vonderEmde.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facultyfocus\/files\/2011\/05\/vonderEmde.jpg 350w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facultyfocus\/files\/2011\/05\/vonderEmde-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>The Course<\/h3>\n<p>What is the course in which you use instructional technologies about? Tell us about its origin, goals and objectives.<\/p>\n<p>I have used video conferencing in several courses. In our &#8220;History, Memory, and the Holocaust&#8221; course, video conferencing provided a means for the students from our class and a Jewish Studies course in Germany to work on projects together and present them to the classes in Germany and here at Vassar in a two-hour videoconference. In &#8220;Language, Power, and the Body&#8221; we collaborated with two other colleges here in the United States and a University class in Paderborn, Germany. With 5 or 6-point video conferences, we made it possible for our students to talk to and interview writers, producers, actors, and prominent researchers in Germany and the United States. I used video conferencing in an intermediate language class when we did a unit on pop culture and our language fellow contacted one of his professors in Germany, a prominent scholar on German pop culture who agreed to give a multi-media lecture via videoconference. Students in 5th semester language class were able to listen to a live lecture by one of the prominent scholars on rock singer Nina Hagen and were able to ask him questions across the ocean. And lastly, Maria H\u00f6hn and I used a video conference to teach one of the workshops for alumnai on the occasion of Cappy&#8217;s inauguration in 2006. I was on sabbatical in Germany and couldn&#8217;t have participated if I hadn&#8217;t been able to present my points and join the workshop participants on the big screen in the videoconferencing room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GERM 230 &amp; 355 and CLCS 301 Taught by: Silke von der Emde The Course What is the course in which you use instructional technologies about? Tell us about its origin, goals and objectives. I have used video conferencing in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facultyfocus\/2011\/05\/24\/making-connections-videoconferencing-in-the-classroom\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facultyfocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facultyfocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facultyfocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facultyfocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facultyfocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facultyfocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facultyfocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facultyfocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facultyfocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facultyfocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}