In this seminar we talked about the power of video conferences. There were three presenters and they all discussed their personal experiences with using video conferencing in their classrooms. They argued that using videoconferencing created a new kind of collaboration they opens the minds of learners to perspectives they would never usually encounter. For example, one of the presenters contacted a teenager in Hong Kong that was protesting for democracy in the city. The students in his classroom got to ask him questions about his perspective on the subject. This was a really great idea for a new kind of collaboration.
