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Audio
Conferencing
Audio Conferencing is a
technology allowing people from anywhere in the world to instantly
connect and communicate ideas in a fully collaborative environment.
The use of this technology is as easy as picking up a telephone and
making a call; no special hardware or software is required and the
calls can be made from anywhere at anytime.
The District’s main user
of Audio Conferencing is the Hospital/Homebound Program located at
Seagull School. The Hospital/Homebound Program has approximately 225
students actively enrolled who receive their regular academic
studies daily from teachers via the system. The Audio Conferencing
system also has a data collaborative component which allows the
teachers to share online documents, files, presentations and white
boarding products with the students while fully participating in an
educational dialog. The individual students various learning styles
are addressed by providing the information to the students in
various formats.
The system is also capable of recording conferences
that can be saved and retrieved at a later time for participants who
missed a session or those who wish to review a previously attended
session. Customized meeting greetings and information are
pre-recorded, welcoming meeting participants automatically when they
join a meeting. The system is also available for district or
administrative meetings. The system allows administrators,
principals, teachers and other district personnel to remain at their
work locations while participating in a conference. This allows more
employee productivity, reduced down and travel time, and reduced
liability for the district as employees need to travel is
diminished.
The system can support up to 192 simultaneously
connected users and has averaged over 2.5 million minutes annually
since its deployment in 2001.
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