Guest Speakers and Experts
Illinois Associate Director of Dept. of Revenue's workshop on the Illinois Digital Identity program for the Illinois Small
Business Development Center Network 2003 Winter Meeting.
Illinois Dept. of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Entrepreneurial Forma at Waubonsee Community
College for Western suburbs small business community.
Best Professor presentation to a high school class from a professor at Dominican University on
the topic of Pre and Post Colonization of Africa. (Naperville Community Unit Dist. 203)
College faculty member and his class met with the facultys former instructor via interactive video
to discuss a topic. (Elmhurst College)
Conducted seminars with experts from the east coast for Advanced Placement students in Statistics,
Biology and Chemistry. (Naperville Central High School)
Connecting history, American issues, and political sciences classes with legislators in Springfield and/or Washington,
D.C. to discuss contemporary issues. (Community School Dist. 99 Downers Grove)
Conversations with the Masters discussions with artists, musicians, athletes, singers, dancers, scientists, etc.
Corporate managers from McDonalds Corporation and Hamburger University delivered a presentation to five different
high schools about doing business at the international level. Students at all five sites participated in Q&A session.
(Naperville Community Unit Dist. 203)
Cracker barrel conversations with local legislators (connecting the bills, political action with government class)
via videoconference set up in Springfield. (Indian Prairie Community Unit School Dist. 204 Naperville)
Engineers from Rolls-Royce Corporation spoke to students about engineering today and career opportunities. (Naperville
Community Unit Dist. 203)
Forums for Gore and Bush to detail how they will assist education if elected with the opportunity for questions from
the campuses participating. (College of DuPage)
Hosted a panel discussion in conjunction with the Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders;
leaders from the summit presented to people at DePaul. (DePaul University)
NASA space engineer in Houston, the director of the Aquatics Research Institute, and a diver who was dressed in full
SCUBA gear, spoke while underwater with science class at Naperville Central High School
and Whiting, Indiana, about principles of buoyancy in water and space. (Naperville Community Unit Dist. 203)
Professor from Iowa State University lectured to a class of medical students in Chicago. (Rush University)
Rush Universitys Dept. of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation are conducting Grand Rounds for staff at Marianjoy
Rehabilitation Center in Wheaton. (Rush University)
Special guest speakers or noted personalities that give programs at one campus that can be shared with many other
campuses. (College of DuPage)
Students in two classes dialogued with the governors office in Springfield on Law Day. (Naperville Community Unit
Dist. 203)
Use videoconferencing classroom to broadcast guest speakers (i.e. Certified Financials Planners) to multiple live
locations and to capture the presentation for viewing at a more convenient time for teachers and students. (Naperville
Community Unit Dist. 203)
Students and faculty in two different videoconference rooms participated in multi-point World Terrorism Today discussion
led by three UN Ambassadors in New York. (DePaul University)
Pakistans senior ambassador to the United Nations teaches UN and International Corporations course to DePaul University
students from UN headquarters in New York City. (DePaul University)
Students at DePaul Universitys Loop Campus connected to the United Nations to hear the United Nations Ambassadors
from Eritrea and Ethiopia speak. This was the first time in two years of warfare that the ambassadors sat at the same table.
(DePaul University)
DePaul University hosted 25 representatives from 12 local nonprofit organizations affiliated with the United Nations
in a special video feed from the United Nations opening session of the NGO Millennium Forum. (DePaul University)
Classes at six different high schools and a junior high class heard a presentation on China given by Dr. Yi-Qing Liu,
Fullbright Scholar-in-Residence, College of Lake County and William Rainey Harper College. (College of Lake County)
Students located at two different high schools interviewed a local Congressman in a point-to-point teleconference.
(Proviso West High School)
Students at two Maine Township high schools interviewed a theater director in a three-way videoconference on the subject
of how to direct a play. (Maine Township High School)
Fifty 5th and 6th grade students from Wilmette connected to a classroom of 50 5th
and 6th grade students in Ireland from a distance learning room at National-Louis University in Evanston. (National-Louis
University)
10 different institutions logged on for an interactive seminar led by expert speakers on the subject of Determining
and Enforcing the Boundaries: Fair Use and Copyright Issues. (NSHEC)
An Officer from the Chicago Police Departments Preventive Programs spoke at different times with students at Kelly
High School on the south side of Chicago and with students at Maine Township South High School in the northwest suburbs. (Chicago
Historical Society)
Local high school students and their parents met with UN Development Program experts to discuss What is Development
in preparation for a trip to Peru the students were taking through CARE Youth Corps. (DePaul University)
Thirteen different educational institutions participated in the expert panelist Cyber Citizenship: Institutional Examples
Solving Issues in Fair Use, Privacy, Access and Acceptable Use seminar via interactive video classrooms. (NSHEC)
Seventeen sites connected for expert-panel seminar Creating Your Own Online Course: Intellectual Property, Ownership,
Commercialization and Conflict of Interest Issues and Policies. (NSHEC)
Illinois Regional Consortia Directors connected 16 participants at a total of seven interactive video sites for a
monthly meeting, eliminating travel time and expenses. (NSHEC)
Experts from five different institutions spoke to participants at 14 different sites on the subject of Getting Into
It: Innovative Developments in Online Learning and Course Organization. (NSHEC)
Seminar on Tapping the Works of Others: Copyright, Fair Use, and Liability Issues and Your Web Site, connected 15
different sites across two MCUs. (NSHEC)
Instructional Activities
Educacion tras-Fronteas por Internet, a six hour Portuguese, Spanish and English webcast from Chile, Brazil, Venezuela,
Mexico, Portugal, Spain and Chicago on Latin American Best Practices for distance education, professional development,
internet security and disability and accessibilty issues in South America.
Accounting classes share data on spreadsheets in real time and see each others calculations. (Naperville Community
Unit Dist. 203)
Classes in other states that use the Internet to share work meet three times a term so that the students see each
other using the interactive television system. (North Central College)
Conducted faculty information sessions with United Nations staff discussing the Global Compact. (DePaul University)
Connecting with a set of students in an archeology site in Greece while the students were in Greece! And prior to
their leaving the U.S. connecting with the archeologist in Greece telling students about experiences they are going to have
when they get to Greece. (National-Louis University)
Connecting a high school class with high school students in other consortia across Illinois so that our students have
additional opportunities to dialogue and receive different points of view. (Naperville Community Unit Dist. 203)
Connecting with professionals in various career fields so that students can begin to learn more about various options
and to be able to ask questions of professionals already in that area. (Community School Dist. 99 Downers Grove)
Debate team can practice debating skills with other teams without leaving the campus.
Demonstrate applications of science and mathematics using on-site videoconferencing equipment at a business or industrial
site.
Demonstration of new surgical techniques to surgeons and operating room staff via videoconferencing is a fast and
effective way to update critical surgical skills.
Develop presentation skills of individual faculty and students by practicing using the video classroom (see themselves
live and on videotape). (Naperville Community Unit Dist. 203)
Employees can continue their education by taking classes from other institutions via videoconferencing. (Rush University)
Foreign language classes can visit with students from other countries for a chat. For example, a French class can
connect to someone in France or Quebec for a discussion of current topics. (North Central College)
Held career education panel discussions in accounting, international business and engineering with other high schools.
(Naperville Central High School)
Liberal arts students in a Chicago suburb shared classes with historically-black college in Texas, enriching the curriculum
and diversity awareness for students at both campuses. (Elmhurst College)
Library instruction sessions can be taught by librarians to off-campus students with access to videoconferencing facilities.
Medical professor in western suburbs on a tight schedule gave a lecture via videoconferencing to a class in Chicago
which would have been canceled without this technology. (Rush University)
Medical professor in
New Zealand co-taught with a Chicago medical professor. (Rush University)
Offer staff development between facilities and organizations. (DuPage High School Dist. 88)
Polish business professors and students interact with American business professors and students during and after classes
conducted between National-Louis Universitys campuses in Nowy Sacz, Poland, and Chicago and Wheaton campuses. (National-Louis
University)
Presented a program with students and teachers from Maine East High School on Hemingways Ladder. (Naperville Community
Unit Dist. 203)
Problem solving contests like a ladder or round robin one day a week, to keep skills sharp among and between schools
in math, science. (Not a game show format, but schools exchange challenging problems and share solutions.) (Indian Prairie
Community Unit School Dist. 204 Naperville)
School-business connections: student interviews of prominent figures (to practice listening, questioning, writing
skills) such as Leon Lederman and other executives at Motorola, to make authentic curriculum connections. (Indian Prairie
Community Unit School Dist. 204 Naperville)
Staff development as teachers dialogued with other teachers in different sites. (Naperville Community Unit Dist.
203)
Students use the videoconferencing classroom to make PowerPoint presentations of business plans to other schools as
a hypothetical entrepreneurial exercise. (Naperville Community Unit Dist. 203)
Students created and performed a musical with two high schools in California, one in Texas and our students and staff
at Naperville Central High School. All students came together in California for the one and only performance which was a tremendous
success. (Naperville Community Unit Dist. 203)
Teachers like to use the document camera even without videoconferencing.
Teachers and students use the videoconferencing classroom to prepare presentations using the document camera and videotaping
the results. (Naperville Community Unit Dist. 203)
Training sessions conducted for medical staff on Study of Women Across the Nation, an ongoing research project of
the National Institutes of Health. (Rush University)
Training teachers simultaneously across multiple campuses. (DeVry Institute of Technology DuPage Campus)
United Nations ambassador teaches courses in two university departments using videoconferencing from the UN in New
York. (DePaul University)
Videoconference College Campus Visits (get campus recruiters to interact with students live with questions about applications
processes, courses, etc.) (Indian Prairie Community Unit School Dist. 204 Naperville)
110 Students at Northwestern University take a course on The Business of Hollywood, taught remotely from Los Angeles
by a top entertainment lawyer. (Northwestern University)
Professors at Northwestern University and the New Mexico Institute of Technology co-teach a graduate-level class on
the subject of Blast Design, the student of utilizing explosive blasts to achieve a desired state in rock masses. (Northwestern
University)
Students at National-Louis University connected to the Research and Training Institute of East Aegean in Samos, Greece
to learn various social aspects of Samos Island, and obtained a personal, first-hand account of Greek society and culture
from college students there. (National Louis University)
Oakton Community College teaches courses from its Bed & Breakfast certificate program to students statewide over
the interactive video network. (Oakton Community College)
Faculty from the English and Nursing departments at Oakton Community College presented on the subjects of poetry and
careers in the healthcare industry to students at Hinsdale South High School. Some presentations lasted as long as 50 minutes.
(Oakton Community College)
Von Steuben guest Yoshimura Momo Sachiko, a math teacher from Shima High School in Japan, participated in a point-to-point
math seminar with faculty and a Japanese I class with Walter Payton College Prep High School students. Another seminar linked
the schools with students and faculty at Naruo High School in Japan. (Von Steuben and Walter Payton College Prep High School)
Job Interviews
Conduct job interviews using the system, including one with someone in Taiwan earlier this summer. (DePaul University)
Conducted job interviews when one of the people involved could not travel. (North Central College)
Interview teaching candidates at a college that has videoconferencing facility. (Indian Prairie Community Unit
School Dist. 204 Naperville)
Interviewed potential graduate faculty member from Norway (and hired him). (Dominican University)
Connected to eight out-of-state campuses for presentations by candidates for faculty and deans positions. (National-Louis
University)
Videoconference job interviews (real workforce preparation). (Indian Prairie Community Unit School Dist. 204 Naperville)
Meetings of Students, Faculty, Administrators and Others
Conduct curricular departmental meetings which encourage the utilization of this equipment. (Naperville Community
Unit Dist. 203)
Conduct meetings of education related groups such as Illinois Board of Higher Education and Illinois Community College
Board, including subcommittees of these organizations, to save travel time and cost. (College of DuPage)
Conducted across-district meetings; bringing people together to dialogue on various topics without having to leave
their own buildings. (Community School Dist. 99 Downers Grove)
Conducted Student Organizations meeting with other schools student organizations. (Elmhurst College)
Conducted faculty and staff meetings at multiple campuses. (North Central College)
Conducted a career information session with students at College of DuPage about nursing programs from Rush University
College of Nursing. (Rush University)
Conducting administrative and academic meetings of groups between campuses. (DeVry Institute of Technology DuPage
Campus)
Connecting NLU Chicago campus students with students at our Poland campus in Nowy Sacz to discuss similarities and
differences in higher education in the two countries. (National-Louis University)
Connecting Irish high school students with high school students in Illinois. (National-Louis University)
Distance learning with students who have taken courses in this mode can share the pros and cons with students considering
doing so as a marketing tool. (College of DuPage)
Education classes and instructors planned China trip with former faculty now at another university. (Elmhurst College)
English-as-a-Second Language teachers from several school districts meet regularly to discuss common issues and plan
cooperative activities. (Naperville Community Unit Dist. 203)
Follow up visit with the student group who went to China. (Elmhurst College)
High school computer clubs have met using video conferencing. (Leyden Community High School Dist. 212)
Host a Science Lecture Series once a week for science teachers and students with scientists working in the field.
Hosted a discussion between high school students from the Chicago area who participated in a CARE program in Peru
with UN expert prior to their departure for Peru. (DePaul University)
Illinois Dept. of Health held series of meetings with physicians, administrators and researchers at Rush University,
University of Illinois at Chicago, Northwestern University and The Arthritis Foundation regarding public policy and arthritis.
(Rush University)
Joint student government meetings for shared service projects. (Indian Prairie Community Unit School Dist. 204
Naperville)
Meeting with high school counselors about career and enrollment opportunities. (DeVry Institute of Technology DuPage
Campus)
Meetings with representatives from partner institutions about our international programs. (DePaul University)
Meetings were held weekly during October and November between Chief Operating Officers of Rush and another health
care organization in Virginia about medical administrative issues. (Rush University)
Meetings with foreign students and faculty before, during, or after a trip to a foreign country. Our students can
talk to the students and the faculty they worked with during their exchange program. (North Central College)
Nursing students taking online courses can meet with instructors for counseling sessions in the video classroom 1-2
hours per week. (Rush University)
Physician gave a legal deposition to an attorney in Akron, Ohio which saved travel time for the doctor and allowed
him to see patients that same day. (Rush University)
Planned a faculty development program on prior learning assessment with a university in South Africa. (DePaul University)
Student clubs from multiple schools can plan cooperative events and activities.
Student government representatives from different high schools or colleges can meet to discuss common issues.
Teachers in the same discipline can talk with teachers in other schools about topics, teaching techniques, ways to
team-teach or share good ideas.
Use videoconferencing classrooms for intra-district meetings. For example, the Downers Grove Education Association
(teachers union) could meet via videoconference, rather than wait for teachers to drive from one school to the other. This
would also be useful if, for example, the two Foreign Language departments wanted to meet before, during, or after school.
(Community Unit School Dist. 99 Downers Grove)
Use videoconferencing for WSHEC meeting. (Naperville Community Unit Dist. 203)
Using the interactive video network to connect NLU to all its out-of-state campuses for meetings. (National-Louis
University)
Online and distance learning faculty and support staff hold biweekly point-to-point meetings. (Oakton Community
College)
Oakton faculty and staff from six area high schools conducted several meetings over the interactive network to discuss
the feasibility of a mass communications career day. (Oakton Community College)
Northeastern Illinois University and Sullivan County School District in Pennsylvania are working together via the
interactive video network to develop curriculum for an On-Line Expeditions Project that will connect students to live expeditions,
field experts, artists, and scientists across the globe using the Internet. (Northeastern Illinois University)
Over 75 instructors at three sites connected for a workshop sponsored by Facing History and Ourselves, an organization
that works with teachers of middle and high school students and their communities to promote academic and emotional growth
in both students and faculty. (Chicago Historical Society)
The IT Department at Northwestern University, in conjunction with the University of Illinois held a seminar on videoconferencing
activities over the interactive video network. Over 25 faculty members from both sites attended. (Northwestern University)
For over 10 months, Northwestern University used its interactive video system to conduct Y2K team meetings connecting
25 members at the Evanston and Chicago campuses. (Northwestern University)
The interactive video network was used to broadcast a faculty development seminar connecting six Chicago-area sites
and five out-of-state locations in a cross-consortia collaboration. (National-Louis University)
Miscellaneous
Orientation of students at the Pilsen Technology Training Center located at MEDA, a 43 year old social services non-profit
located in the heavily populated Hispanic Chicago neighborhood of the Pilsen Community.
Celebrating the Grand Opening of video classroom. (DeVry Institute of Technology DuPage Campus)
Conduct National Issues Forums for the Kettering Foundation via teleconferencing for our students, staff, and community.
(Naperville Community Unit Dist. 203)
Conduct special events for local newspaper reporters to visit and create stories about applications of video technology.
(Naperville Community Unit Dist. 203)
Graduation ceremony for 40 Library Technical Assistants (library certification program) at Glen Ellyn, Geneva, Edwardsville,
Carterville and Decatur was conducted by College of DuPage on August 24 2000 on the video network (College of DuPage)
Medical student at the University of Alaska successfully defended her doctoral dissertation from Fairbanks with her
advisory review panel in Chicago. (Rush University)
Produce some programs that teach teachers how to use videoconference equipment. (DuPage High School Dist. 88)
Received a satellite downlink transmission when one of College of DuPages satellite dishes was inoperative; NCUS 203
sent the satellite feed to College of DuPage via the T1 line, and College of DuPage resent this feed to other sites without
interrupting the live transmission. (Naperville Community Unit Dist. 203)
Teen parenting classes with multiple high schools for new and expectant teens, using experts from Central DuPage Health
and other health care / social service agencies.
View satellite downlinked programs that were previously unable to view because we didnt have a satellite dish. College
of DuPage patched the satellite feed into the interactive television system. (North Central College)
Teacher at Willowbrook High School, Villa Park, defended her doctoral dissertation to her dissertation committee at
Loyola University, Wilmette. (Willowbrook High School)
