Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration

Vermont’s prepaid Content bank

• It's the final day of the 1941 season and Ted Williams' batting average is .39955. What will he do? Sit this one out and guarantee an historic .400 season or take a chance and aim for mathematic immortality? Find the answer to this and other exciting stories in a dugout full of whole numbers, fractions and decimals, percentages, proportions and problem solving. …excerpt from the Baseball Hall of Fame’s Math: Batter UP! video conferencing program
  
  
• Experience a narrated shark feeding originating LIVE from our 135,000-gallon shark tank….excerpt from the Mote Marine Laboratory’s Shark Snack Attack video conferencing program
  
  
• A is for Apple, A is for Art Students use their eyes to spy apples or other fruit in paintings by Renoir, Picasso, and Matisse, then discover how these celebrated artists used color to convey the apple's appearance. Looking at a real apple under different lighting conditions helps students see how light affects form… excerpt from Cleveland Museum of Art’s video conferencing program.
  
  
• Explore the world through art as we find out where pieces came from and how they relate to the country and culture. We will discuss countries all over the world as we view these countries both from afar and close up through pictures, maps, and Google Earth…. Excerpt from the Cincinnati Art Museum’s Putting Art on the Map video conferencing program

Go to CILC (http://www.cilc.org) to find more programming and school to school collaboration opportunities

The Learning Network of Vermont – VT’s in-school video conferencing network -- has set-up a content dollar bank with the nonprofit Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC) . The CILC dollar bank allows LNV sites to access fee-based content from a variety of providers, including NASA, Smithsonian museums, Baseball Hall of Fame, Library of Congress, Mote Marine Laboratory, Manhattan School of Music, Cincinnati Art Museum and many more.

LNV CILC Content Dollar Bank is now available to all LNV and neighbored school sites. The CILC allocation is announced via an email to the school contacts on record.  Please contact Arlyn Bruccoli at the VT Dept of Education if you have questions about the current allotment. The LNV CILC Content Dollar Bank is designed so that all LNV school sites have equal access to the dollar bank, but that if a school is not actively using the dollar bank that those program credits are periodically redistributed to active LNV sites. LNV sites will need to pay directly for programs beyond the allotment in any timeframe and will be notified of that before any fees are incurred. Periodically the credits available to LNV sites will be reset, with the total amount of funds remaining in the content dollar bank being redistributed equally across all LNV sites. The CILC Content Dollar Bank is designed to be used within the specified timeframe and there is no advantage to a site to wait until later in the year to use the program credits.

Note: The cost of CILC programming varies across providers. The dollar bank program credit is primarily based on number of programs used and not program cost. School sites must determine how best to manage the CILC allocation for their site.

Important: If you must cancel a video conference scheduled via CILC due to an unavoidable circumstance (e.g. snow day), you must email arlyn.bruccoli@state.vt.us and tim@necomp.com before the video conference is to start. Most providers will not charge schools if they cancel due to snow days, but they must be notified in advance. Arlyn and Tim will take care of canceling for you.

Contact Arlyn Bruccoli at arlyn.bruccoli@state.vt.us or 802 828 0223 if you have further questions

Instructions for using the LNV CILC Content Dollar Bank --- click here  

Current list of Content Providers available via CILC --- click here

F.A.Q:

Who is Eligible?

All active LNV sites and school sites neighbored to the LNV are eligible to participate.

Who are the LNV sites?

The current list of LNV and neighbored sites can be found on the frontpage of the LNV wik ati http://vtlnv.pbworks.com/

What does it take to connect to the LNV?

Your school needs to have an H.323 IP-based videoconference terminal (Polycom, Tandberg, Sony, etc.) in working order. The NCS technical staff will work with your IT coordinator to configure your network.

How do I connect to a CILC site?

CILC sites are external sites. If your school is an LNV site, instructions for calling or being called by external sites can be found here. If your school is not LNV, but is neighbored to LNV, consult your video network administrator for instructions.