Welcome to

The Learning Network of Vermont's

Wiki for Training, Tips, and Information about Effective Use of Video Conferencing in the K-12 setting

The Learning Network of Vermont (LNV) is a school-based video conferencing system.  To learn more about LNV, please see www.learn.vermont.gov

Schools in VT on LNV: There are 73 schools in VT that are either a LNV site or are part of an affliated network.  Click here to see the list.

Understanding the Pieces of LNV: Is the LNV that camera thing that sits on top of the TV at my school?

LNV 2.0 from a user perspective includes 3 different systems that combined are the LNV. 

• videoconferencing camera and monitor (usually a polycom camera and a TV) in VT schools
• web interface that allows users to schedule and control meetings (the iCM/ iView suite),
• shared desktop server that allows LNV meeting participants to present their desktop to other participants at remote locations (Scopia Desktop). The Scopia Desktop system also allows for webcams to be meeting participants.

The 3 systems are tied together via the LNV's head-end in Montpelier. It is the head-end that takes all the various pieces of the systems and connects them.

A note on LNV 2.0:  The LNV has undergone a majpr upgrade. Our goal is that by the middle of November each LNV site that had been using an old polycom terminal from the ILN system, will be on LNV 2.0 using a new camera and monitor. The old terminals will be off the LNV system.  The upgrade will provide greater reliability and improved stability and quality of connections as well as handle firewall traversal issues.  

Use the sidebar of this wiki to navigate the site to access information to support instructional and collaborative uses of this system