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We are delighted to announce the launch of our new VC Content Directory website.
The new website is a dedicated resource for all teaching staff that showcases sessions available from Janet registered Content Providers. The functionality of this dynamic website makes it easier for you to search for sessions by subject, key stage or by content provider. You can also set up tailored RSS feeds and find out about upcoming sessions.
The URL is: vccontentdirectory.ja.net
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Using Janet Desktop videoconferencing, St John's College Southsea have been taking part in the Natural History Museum's sessions with scientists in Borneo.
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With Virtually University's objective of informing and inspiring students' wider choices and alternatives to the conventional university route to a degree, we are delighted to offer an interactive videoconference from Barclays introducing their award winning Retail Development Programme. This will take place on Thursday 22nd November between 2.00pm and 3.00pm.
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Lord Puttnam, the NHS, Oaks Park High School and Sheffield Hallam University spoke at the Bett Show 2013 about their use of videoconferencing. Janet VC services linked Mina Patel's Videoconferencing for Learning (VCfL) to the Excel Centre.
Click here to see the video clip VC and the Global Workforce of the Future
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Metlearn (www.metlearn.co.uk) is offering six lucky schools a chance to register for a free 30-minute videoconference about the weather. The first six registered primary schools to email vc@metlearn.co.uk will receive the free places. Please don't forget to mention ‘Janet VC offer’ in your email.
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Give your students the opportunity to engage with real scientists and be inspired by life in the field with a free programme of video conference events and live chats. Students will discover what it’s like to perform cutting-edge research in Borneo, one of the most biologically diverse places on the planet.
Appropriate for Key Stages 2,3 and 4.
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One of VU's themes this term is the brain and the nervous system and so we are delighted to offer our first session with University College London on Neuroscience. This will take place on 5th December at 11.30 am and will seek to promote the idea that the sciences are accessible to people of all backgrounds.
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Through the use of videoconferencing, Virtually University, a Janet Content Provider, has helped Shrewsbury Sixth Form students to aim higher. Students have been able to participate in lectures that might not otherwise have been posible.
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We have 3 forthcoming VU videoconferences taking place this term. Each will be delivered by PhD students representing Sheffield and Birmingham.
The first is taking place at 11.20 on 27th June. Continuing our English Literature & Language theme this term, Adam Smith from The University of Sheffield, will explore a relatively unknown Eighteenth Century text to introduce Year 12 students to the skills necessary for studying English at university level.
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Videoconferencing from Down Under!
