Conferencing utilizes a computer with a small camera attached for real-time video and audio capabilities. You can see and talk to others in a remote site. This form of distance education is with students grouped in one or more physical classrooms. Students may interact with the instructor and members of parallel physical classrooms. This approach employs standard television studio and transmission technology.
New technologies permit participants to see both sides of the video transmission simultaneously.
West Deptford installed an ITV classroom in the summer of 1999. It will be used to send and receive classes with other districts, for staff development activities and for virtual field trips. Grant funds were utilized to purchase the equipment for the ITV classroom that is located in West Deptford High School. Also, taken from an earlier Far West Laboratory Educational Technology program publication, A Roadmap to Getting Started on the Information Highway , by Duffield, Steiner and Reeves.