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Video conferencing

Description: Video conferencing has being used in Munich to connect the hospital school with a partner school in Munich. This enabled students with medical needs to attend lessons in subjects that could not be taught in the hospital school because of a lack of resources. The aim of the project was to make it possible for the students to follow lessons, thus making it easier for them to reintegrate into their mainstream schools after they had been dismissed from hospital.
Notes: The system consists of cameras, microphones, speakers and screens in the hospital school classroom and also in one classroom, for example, the physics room, in the partner school. The students in hospital can navigate the camera and can interact with the teacher and students in the partner school. Naturally, as teachers and pupils outside of the hospital environment have to integrate someone from outside their school and with a medical condition, into their community, there may be some issues that have to be discussed beforehand with pupils and parents, as the teachers and the students could be confronted by the emotional impacts of dealing with people with various medical conditions. Financial support for these activities were coming from the community and various charities.
Key Educational Factors:
  • creating relationship
  • constructing knowledge
  • taking up new roles
  • metacognition
  • inter-institutional communication
Media:
  • text
Educational Settings:
  • hospital school
Target group:
  • teacher/assistant
  • learner nursery sch.
  • learner elem. sch.
  • learner sec. sch.
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