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Alcatel-Lucent | Creating Digital Learning Spaces - Solutions for K-12 10
Conferencing and Collaboration
Alcatel-Lucent offers a packaged solution providing
audio, data, and even video conferencing. The
software-based solution – My Teamwork – is a part of
Alcatel-Lucent’s Unified Communications suite and
can be enabled from any telephone, any location, and
any browser. It allows secure conferencing with
anyone, inside or outside the school district, without
the need for downloads or a VPN. My Teamwork can
be deployed on any vendor’s PBX or softswitch in an
IP or PSTN calling environment.
The presence-aware, self-service user interface offers
meet me, ad hoc, and scheduled conferencing with
click-to-call, document management, and much more.
With My Teamwork, a district gets secure, on-network
instant messaging that allows for instant collaboration
in a safer, monitored environment.
Alcatel-Lucent partners with Polycom to add video,
bringing rich multimedia conferencing in support of
district operations, classroom learning, and
professional development. Smoothly integrated into
My Teamwork’s one-click browser interface, video
conferences may be initiated as easily as IM, audio or
Web conferences, or added to an ongoing session. My
Teamwork users may also participate in room system-
centric video conferences.
Students can:
• Share data with other students in the district or
around the world for group projects
• Attend class virtually if they are home bound or in
distance learning programs
• Review class sessions to study or catch up on missed
lessons
Teachers can:
• Attend virtual training sessions
• Collaborate and share curriculum content within a
district or beyond
• Launch instant conferences with parents
• Application sharing shows grades and
student work
• Parents don’t have to leave work
• Non-custodial parents can attend
conferences from out of state
Administrators and staff can:
• Conduct audio and video conferences for more
effective meetings
• Record memos and presentations teachers can view
on their own time
•Conduct individualized education planning (IEP)
meetings and archive them for the student’s record
CONFERENCING AND COLLABORATION FEATURES
• Presence awareness
• Secure, on-net instant messaging (IM)
• Ad-hoc, scheduled and meet me conferencing, presentation, and application sharing
• Blended learning through video conferencing
• Session recording and archiving
SOLUTION COMPONENTS
• My Teamwork—part of the OmniTouch communications suite designed for multimedia conferencing and collaboration
• OmniPCX Series—converged communications platform that supports conferencing and collaboration using IP and SIP.
Advanced features