E-Connections During Field Experiences

Guy Westhoff presented on the system he has set up at Washington State University to allow students doing their equivalent of paras and student teaching to communicate with each other and with faculty via various electronic means. They are using Marratech due to its superior ability to handle multi-party video conferencing. Sounds like the whole thing was a challenge to set up, both technically and legally, but now that they have it, the can do much student teaching evaluation via distance, and their student teachers are relieved of much of the isolation that I certainly recall from my own student teaching experience