The V Factor – best practice videoconferencing in Wales

A videoconferenced event at Aberystwyth, Bangor, Cardiff and Swansea Universities.
Wednesday 2 February 2011.

Videoconferencing is a technology whose time has come. This unique event will combine local and videoconferenced presentations, discussions and research. It will  present the reasons why you need to get the most from your videoconferencing facilities – and how to do so. 

It will highlight the ways in which videoconferencing can help meet the current environmental and financial challenges faced by education and the public sector. Who should videoconference? When should videoconferencing replace travel? When is travel more appropriate? How to get people using the facilities? How much money, time and CO2 emissions can be saved? What are the benefits to staff and the organisation?

This event is organised by the Welsh Video Network and has a focus on Higher and Further Education in Wales, but will be of interest to the whole public sector.

More information and booking from http://www.wvn.ac.uk/vfactorreg

Videoconferences with Welsh authors

We have enjoyed working with the Welsh Video Network to put on a series of events with authors across Wales. Using videoconferencing we have been able to link schools with FE and HE for an audience with Bethan Gwanas on 4 November, Mererid Hopwood on 18 November and Rachel Trezise on 9 December. One of our events had the honour of being the 2008th event during the 2008 National Year of Reading in Wales, and yesterday we were invited to the Assembly to meet Jane Hutt, Minister for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills. The photo shows Alison Walker from WVN, Sue Mace from WHELF and Gwerfyl Pierce Jones, Director of the Welsh Books Council, with the Minister: