ISTE’s Technology in Practice Webinar Series Presents

Jan Zanetis

Interactive videoconferencing (IVC) networks for education have emerged rapidly over the past few years. With the potential to link classrooms worldwide, IVC connects students and teachers to subject area experts and provides schools with much-needed supplemental content.

25% of US Schools have Interactive Videoconference units installed.  Find out how pioneering educators are using this tool to connect their students to world class content providers and collaborative opportunities across the world. 

Webinar price includes Jan and Kecia’s popular book (with Camille Cole), Videoconferencing for K–12 Classrooms: A Program Development Guide

Book will be mailed within a week after this Webinar. Extra shipping charges apply for International shipments.

Get the Webinar and Book for the special introductory price of $50 for members / $125 non-members.

Non-members, for $4 more, you can become a standard ISTE member and have access to all of ISTE’s great benefits. Sign up first to receive the member discount on this Webinar!

Jan Zanetis, a career K-12 educator, is the Market Development Manager for Education at TANDBERG. Between corporate world and K-12 she spent 5 years at Vanderbilt University as the Director of the Virtual School. She developed and delivered thousands of hours of interactive videoconferences (IVC) for K-12 classrooms featuring Vanderbilt faculty, staff and students as presenters. The Virtual School became a leading distance learning provider in the U.S. during her directorship. Jan became nationally known for presenting professional development sessions for educators. She co-wrote the book “Videoconferencing for K-12 Classrooms: A Program Development Guide” (Cole, Ray, Zanetis, 2004) and is presently working on a companion guide with Dr. Kecia Ray.

Jan chaired the NECC program review committee for IVC for 3 years and currently serves as the Chair of the Special Interest Group within ISTE that focuses on Visual Communications in education, SIG-IVC.   Most recently, Jan has developed supporting programs for educators within TANDBERG that resulted in TANDBERG’s receipt of the 21^st Century Education Award from the U.S. Distance Learning Association.

Dr. Ray began her career as a middle school science teacher where she taught in one of the first 21^st Century classrooms in the state of Tennessee and was the first classroom teacher in her district to adopt videoconference technology. Her career began to focus even more on technology after becoming a certified network administrator for Aquinas College in Nashville, TN. Dr. Ray served as an Assistant Professor of Education Technology at Middle Tennessee State University before being invited to develop the technology design for Frist Center for the Visual Arts. She was the Director of Technology Research in the Office of Science Outreach at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. She is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems in the College of Natural and Applied Sciences at Lipscomb University and the Policy Analyst for Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools. She consults school systems, universities, and museums in designing learning networks, implementing distance learning, and assessing technology integration. Dr. Ray conducts professional development throughout the United States on all areas of technology in education. 

Dr. Ray is a member of the International Society for Technology in Education where she serves as a member of the Leadership Symposium and Co-Chairs the IVC Program Committee. Other affiliations include the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, International Technology Education Association, National Science Teachers Association, North American Council for Online Learning, the American Education Research Association, and the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. She has conducted research in the areas of videoconferencing as an instructional tool, the adoption of technology among faculty in colleges and universities in relationship to recruitment and retention, and adoption of technology by K-12 educators. Dr. Ray presents nationally and internationally on topics related to distance education and technology literacy.