TWICE News and Views

Quicklinks: Read Around the Planet website and CAPspace login.

While Read Around the Planet isn’t done yet, we do have final participation numbers.

People who made it happen
Read Around the Planet would not be successful without support from many organizations.

• TWICE, Michigan’s K12 videoconferencing organization, started this project in 2002 and continues to invest volunteer time and funding to make the project sustainable.
• This is the second year of corporate sponsorship from Polycom. This funding allowed TWICE to contract with Sue Porter to be our RAP coordinator, also known as the TWICE RAP Star. The project has grown so large that it isn’t sustainable without sponsorship, so we really appreciate Polycom’s support.
• The Verification Partners lay the foundation for this project in the fall with all the test calls and assistance getting buildings entered into the system and connected correctly to their coordinators. Many of them have been involved through February in helping with test calls and fixing connections.
• Building, district, and regional level coordinators and techs have worked so hard coordinating, dealing with tech problems, encouraging teachers, following up on communication problems, and generally smoothing the way for successful connections.
• And of course, the teachers who plan creative interesting presentations for their partner classes and who weather all the little glitches and quirks that can happen in classroom-to-classroom connections.

A big thank you to EVERYONE who makes this project a success!

Read Around the Planet Stats
RAP2008 Registrations: 1632
Using 30 students as a rough estimate of class size, that means RAP impacted about 50,000 students this year!
Pieces of Equipment: 869 (of which 865 are verified)

Countries
US 1435
CA 196
UK 1

States and Provinces
Interestingly, even though NY and TX had state testing conflicts, the numbers for those states still increased. Click on the graph to examine in detail.

Equipment Types
These numbers show how many sessions were scheduled using the different equipment manufacturers. Compare to last year (2007).

Avaya 21
BNI 26
Codian 1
Other 37
Polycom 1,111
Radvision 6
Sony 42
Tandberg 315
VCON 14
VTel 59

Other CAPspace Numbers

Friends
Friend Relationships Confirmed: 409
Friend Relationships Pending: 525
Have you logged in recently to update your CAPspace friendships? Go to Projects.TWICE.cc and login. Look on the home page to see if you have any friend relationships pending. If so, click the person’s head/icon and click Add Friend. Or, go to Search to find friends and add them.

Active CAPSpace Accounts: 1039

Just think of all the people you could partner with to create additional projects! Login to projects.twice.cc and check your privacy settings. If you want others to find you, check Full Access.

Keep checking the blog throughout the rest of 2008 to see what other tools and opportunities are available through TWICE!