After watching the video from Gordon Booth, the guest lecturer, I was able to grasp the idea of video conferencing. The video well explained the key concept of how to do video conferencing effectively. After watching the video, I was able to summarize the information in to 3 categories. Those four categories represent 1) technical planning, pre-session planning, 2) Preparing for the Session content, and 3) to construct the presentation plan to effectively share the studying information with the audiences.

 1) Technical planning involves everything from cameras to connection problems. This step is very important, because in order to maintain the screen visible to the viewers, all the technical systems should be working in good shape. The other reason why this step is important is because the basic idea of video conferencing is to share or teach the studying loads with others using technology, not having to meet each other face to face. After all the technical planning is finished, the next step is pre-session planning. Pre-session planning is to gather the information which you want to present to the audience. When doing pre-session planning, it is important to know what kind of stuff the audiences have to understand, and to find the most effective way to present certain information.

 2) Second step is to prepare for the video conference session. In this step, it is important to take out hew important ideas that you want to transfer to the audience from the materials that have been gathered in the planning step. Also in order to know if the audiences have fully understood the concepts, it is required to come up with some kind of method to monitor the audiences understanding.

3) The third step is to construct the presentation plan to effectively share the studying information with the audiences. It is very important for the instructor to teach the audience in the way that is easy to understand. The presentation skill may vary. For example the most effective way is to have the student to get talking about the materials thought, or to prepare a game or handouts that the students can do in order to review, and to show you their understandings.

 After watching the video lecture from Gordon Booth, I was able to understand the concepts of video conferencing. The best part was I was able to know those little details that I haven’t noticed such as the technical problems that can happen.