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<<August 5, 1997>>

Ms. Tina Evans Greenwood
Managing Editor, GLOSAS News and
Library Instruction Coordinator
Fort Lewis College
612 East 32nd Street
Durango, Colorado 81301-81301
970-259-1345
970-247-7684
Fax: 970-247-7149
greenwood_t@fortlewis.edu
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(1) Tina:

Attached is the final of the outline and full paper by Prof.
Joe Pelton.

Pls include it in the web site of our book publishing project.

(2) Joe:

Many thanks for your recent msg.

I understand you have very busy schedules, and thank you very,
very much for your time to come up this excellent and
interesting article.

After consulting with our publisher, I will include it in our
hard copy book.

Pls have a very pleasant summer -- at your home base in
Colorado.

Best, Tak
**************************************
Outline of Paper

Trends in Satellite Tele-education

1. The Start of Satellite Tele-education
2. Project SHARE
3. Current and Future Trends
4. Project LEARN

(Note Project LEARN is an open ended and participatory project which
will involve the ITU, World Bank, NASA, ESTEC, CRL of Japan, Russia,
China, INTELSAT and INMARSAT at this stage.)
**************************************
Full Paper

Trends in Satellite Tele-education

Dr. Joseph N. Pelton
Dean, International Space University
Srasbourg, France

The Start of Satellite Tele-education

The launch of the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1,
occurred in October 1957. This was quickly followed by the launch
of a series of telecommunications satellites such as Score, Courier
IB, Echo, Relay, Telstar, and Syncom. These and other experimental
satellites demonstrated that voice, data and television could be
sent reliably between ground antenna systems. These experiments led
to the deployment of three operational systems in 1965 namely the
Russian Molniya domestic satellite system, the U.S. Initial Defense
Satellite Communications System, and the INTELSAT global satellite
system's Early Bird. From the very start of satellite
communications services television transmissions were featured.
These included exchanges between heads of state, the Lemans
automobile race, and important social services such as surgeons in
Geneva, Switzerland observing open heart surgery in Houston, Texas
by Dr. Debekey.

In the ensuing years through the late 1960s and the 1970s
efforts to devise satellite technology that could bring cost
effective satellite tele-education services to rural and remote
areas at cost-effective rates continued. These efforts included the
Applications Technology Satellite series 1 through 6 that showed
many different new satellite applications including satellite tele-education.
The ATS-6 with a very large unfurlable antenna
demonstrated rural satellite video education services in the
Appalachia region of the U.S. as well as in Brazil and India. The
Communications Technology Satellite (with the Hermes satellite
designed and built in Canada and with NASA providing the launch)
also showed how very high powered satellites could broadcast
educational video to rural areas using only very small aperture
terminals.

In the 1980s satellite based tele-education began to evolve on
a global scale. The Indian INSAT system, building on the positive
SITE experiments conducted with the ATS-6 was deployed starting with
the INSAT 1B in 1983. Now with the INSAT 2 series, built the Indian
Space Organization, deployed there are four satellites providing
television based education to tens of thousands of villages. In
Indonesia the Palapa satellite system also began offering television
education in the 1980s as well. International programming as well
as local programming developed by Television Radio Indonesia (TVRI)
provided service to sites on Indonesia most heavily populated
islands.

In areas such as the Caribbean and the South Pacific operating
networks based on satellite operations have been in operation for
over 20 years through such networks as UDIWITE (University of the
West Indies) Peacesat (University of the South Pacific).

Project SHARE

One of the key stimulants to the spread of satellite
communications came from the INTELSAT sponsored Satellites for
Health and Rural Education (SHARE) project that took place from 1985
to 1987. Free satellite capacity was made available to test rural
and remote educational and tele-health projects all over the world.
Most dramatically, China, under the auspices of INTELSAT's Project
Share began its national education television program in this
manner. It began with only a few dozen stations and a few thousand
students. Today this network has over 90,000 antennas in operation
in all parts of China and reaches over 3 million students.

In East Africa and in the Caribbean tele-medicine tests were
carried out using only a single satellite voice circuit to connect
the Memorial Hospital of Newfoundland to remote hospital and
clinics. The same circuit was used for a seven hour shift to link
Canada with Kenya and Uganda and then for another seven hour shift
to link Canada with Caribbean nations.

Current and Future Trends

In Canada and the United States over 100 different satellite
tele-education systems are now in operation. These include state
and province owned and operated networks, commercial networks that
range from primary schooling to graduate level programming. Some
projects such as the Mind-Extension University of the Jones
Intercable reaches into over 20 million homes via cable television.
Others such as the National Technological University (NTU) combines
college course produced by over 40 different universities and also
provides short courses and corporate training. European use of
satellite tele-education has been less extensive than in North
America simply because extensive terrestrial telecommunications
networks are widely available and cover population centers and
educational institutions quite well.

Project LEARN

One of the latest initiatives to seek to stimulate new
directions and experiments in satellite tele-education is called
Project LEARN. This stands for Local Education and Resource Network
and its objective is to stimulate a wide range of tele-education
projects in diverse subjects, in a number of countries and with
alternative technical and operations approaches. It is anticipated
that after the various trials, tests and demonstrations, and
projects are completed that an assessment team will evaluate the
successes, shortcoming, and key lessons learned and prepare a
international report of these findings. To date projects in India,
China, Russia, Korea, and the U.S. have been initially identified
for detailed planning. It is intended that the final report and
evaluation will be published and circulated by the International
Telecommunication Union as well as presented in electronic form as
an international web site.

Specific objectives are to test and evaluate:

a. broad band versus narrow band tele-education systems
b. effectiveness of tele-education at various age levels
c. ability to combine rural communications systems with tele-education
systems
d. effectiveness of combined tele-education and tele-medicine
projects
e. effectiveness of satellite, terrestrial and hybrid systems in
meeting tele-education objectives.
f. identify typical gaps or problems in tele-education projects
such as in the areas of training of educators and technicians,
program development, terminal equipment, high cost of
establishing or maintaining ground systems, technical
standards, etc.
g. impact of tele-education systems on quality of life and
general improvements to society (these areas are admittedly
extremely difficult to measure).

These projects are planned for 1998 and 1999 and the final
report for Project LEARN is anticipated in the year 2000.

There are today a growing number of test, demonstrations, and
even commercial projects in tele-education. It is hoped that
Project LEARN and perhaps other parallel global test and evaluation
programs can share more broadly and effectively the results of these
tele-education tests.

Conclusions

Today there are some 50 satellite carriers who have deployed
some 200 GHz of satellite capacity in orbit, representing over 200
satellites. The next decade may well see the number of satellite
carriers growing to 100 to 150 carriers and the total amount of
satellite capacity (as now proposed) could grow to 2000 GHz. This
explosion of satellite capacity in low, medium and geosynchronous
satellite orbit should make a tremendous amount of new space segment
capacity that could be used for tele-education and tele-medicine
purposes. Further this sudden expansion of capacity should also
reduce the capital and operating costs for tele-education systems.
Systematic planning efforts, like Project LEARN are needed now to
exploit fully the new capacity that will be increasingly available
in the next few years.
**************************************
Biography of Joseph N. Pelton

Dr. Joseph N. Pelton (B.S. University of Tulsa, M.A. New York
University, Ph.D. Georgetown University). Dr. Pelton is the Vice
President of Academic Programs and Dean of the International Space
University (ISU) of Strasbourg, France. This "new style" University
is currently creating a global virtual university tied to 25
university sites around the world. Dr. Pelton also serves as
Managing Director of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation and on the
Board of Trustees of the International Institute of Communications.
He is the author of 14 books in the field including Future View,
Future Talk, and Global Talk which was nominated for a Pulitzer
Prize. Most recently he has published Wireless and Satellite
Telecommunications (Prentice Hall, 1995) and the second edition of
The How to Book of Satellite Communications (Design Publishers,
1995). In 1997 he will publish his next book called The Cyberspace
Chronicles.

Prior to assuming his current post Dr. Pelton served as
Director of the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program and the
Center for Advanced Research in Telecommunications (CART) at the
University of Colorado at Boulder--the oldest such program in the
U.S. From 1969-89 Dr. Pelton held various management positions with
INTELSAT and COMSAT including Director of Strategic Planning and
Director of Project Share (SHARE stood for Satellites for Health and
Rural Education). For his leadership in establishing and carrying
our Project SHARE, he was awarded the H. Ree Lee award of the Public
Service Satellite Consortium. Dr. Pelton is a frequent keynote
speaker and has deliver major addresses in over 40 countries around
the world as well as spoken at the UN, the US Congress, Harvard
University, the AAAS and at many other prestigious fora.

Dr. Pelton is a full member of the International Academy of
Astronautics, a member of the American Biographical Institute, Who's
Who International, the World Future Society, the American Institute
of Astronautics and Aeronautics (AIAA) and the Society of Satellite
Professionals of which he was the founding president.
**************************************
Address

Dr. Joseph N. Pelton
Director, Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program
Engineering Center, OT 2-41
Campus Box 530
University of Colorado
Boulder, Colorado 80309-0530
303-492-8916
Fax: 303-492-1112
Pelton_J@cubldr.colorado.edu
Pelton@Boulder.Colorado.edu
and
Dean and Vice President of Academic Programs
International Space University
Srasbourg, France
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<<August 6, 1997>>

Andrew Targowski
Professor of Computer Information Systems
Telcity USA Project Director
Vice President of Information Resource Management Association
WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
Department of Business Information Systems
Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008
Office (616) 387-5406
Fax (616) 387-5710
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or
Book Series Editor
Global Information Technology Management
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Dear Andrew:

(1) Many thanks for your msg of yesterday.

(2) The book publishing project is rather slow, but I have been
working continuously in the past months -- this was due partly
to our several grant applications submitted to governmental
agencies.

The last one was submitted for the deadline of 7/31th,
which was for SSTTP/Denton, TX and Honolulu, HI groups'
setting up their broad-band wireless Internet. I also
had to help our Brazilian colleagues for similar
projects after my trip to Brazil in June, as reported in
my listserve distributions.

(3) I would like to concentrate my time in this August to write my
part up, i.e., my personal recollections in the developments
of informatics, as you encouraged me to do so, as saying
"History of science is science."

Some of Brazilians told me during my workshop in
Florianopolis, Brazil last June, that I am a "living
history" of informatic development, and asked any of my
write-ups, too.

(4) So far, my strategies were;

(a) Tina Greenwood established a book publishing web site
at;
<http://www.wiu.edu/users/milibo/wiu/resource/glosas/cont.htm>,

with the list of proposed paper contributors (which I
sent to you before).

(b) Albeit this is a skeleton of our GLOSAS/KNOWLEDGEBASE,
we will use it (with some modifications later) to
include the outline of contributing papers with the
authors' brief biographies and addresses.

I have so far collected about a half dozen of them
and sent to Tina (after joint editing of them with
her), who intended to include them in the web site
in this summer time.

I expect to have another dozen or so of the
outlines (and full papers) in the coming two
months.

(c) I will then collect their full papers which will also be
included in the web site as the third layer hypertext
(the first layer with the list of papers and the second
layer with the outlines, biographies and addresses).

One of full papers has already been sent to Tina,
and I am expecting to receive three or four of
them by the end of August.

(d) The above (b) and (c) procedures will be continued from
now on, for constructing our GLOSAS/KNOWLEDGEBASE and a
virtual book (see below).

By this way, the contributed papers will be
available to our colleagues -- so that, even if
our hard copy book publishing will be delayed, the
contributors can have some satisfaction for their
time spent.

(e) I will then ask you, as the editor of Idea-Group
Publisher, to select some of the papers to accompany
with my articles in hard copy format which is to be
published from Idea-Group. (Unselected papers can still
be included in the CD-ROM version -- see below).

My estimate of this selection time will probably
be in November or December of this year.

BTW, as you know, we plan to have an international
workshop/conference at the University of Tampere
in Finland next May. If possible, I wish to have
the hard copy book to be published by then in
order to distribute it at the conference. I would
appreciate it very much if you can inform me the
deadline of my book manuscript -- as back-calculating
from this conference date of May 11-15, 1998
(tentative yet).

(f) The above web site will also be tied with a computer-mediated
multimedia conferencing system (i.e, FORUM) at
T&A University in order for us to come up a virtual
book, as mentioned in my previous proposal to you.

Bill Klemm, president of FORUM, recently visited
Roger Boston of Houston Community College, and
learned how to incorporate audio/video clippings
and how to run synchronous videoconferencing in
conjunction with asynchronous computer
conferencing.

Bill will demonstrate a prototype of the virtual
book during Roger's workshop at the conference at
the University of Tampere -- see its brief
description (draft) below.

It may be tied to our book publishing web site,
i.e., a prototype of our virtual book to be
demonstrated during this workshop.

(5) Lastly, you may recall I proposed to have a CD-ROM
accompanying to the hard copy book.

This may not be possible to meet with the Tampere conference
date (*), but I would like to pursue this direction,
especially to include video clippings of our GLHs in the past
decade. Also, I would like to include multimedia version of
full papers by contributors.

(*) The preparation of CD-ROM may take a half year --
with draft clipping and final editing, scanning of
photos/diagrams of contributed papers, etc.

For this part of project, I need to raise funds for our
purchasing very fast computer for video editing, its
peripherals, and labor for final editing, etc.

(a) Do you know any funding sources for this kind project?

(b) Can you inform me any funding sources?

(6) The above is an interim progress report of our book publishing
project.

Looking forward to receiving your response,

Best, Tak
**************************************
ATTACHMENT I

FORUM is an asynchronous ("just-in-time") computer-mediated
multimedia conferencing for document authoring and multi-way
interaction with dynamically evolving document databases. An
evolving FORUM database can organize and integrate information from
the Web with audio/video clippings. FORUM creates an environment
that encourages student groups to DO things, to produce educational
deliverables and support the major pedagogical paradigms of
constructivism and collaborative learning.

The demonstration of FORUM will be made via CU-SeeMe (with a Screen
Cam slide show as backup) for its use to construct virtual,
interactive books. This will show the new multiple-document
interface which incorporates into one environment rich-text
formatted documents, still image and graphics, audio and video
clips, and Internet browser. The unique feature of this environment
is that all readers can make their own multimedia annotations (i.e.,
"write in the margins"), without writing code, either on individual
copies of the virtual book or as part of a learning team in which
everyone annotates.
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<<August 6, 1997>>

Dear Janice:

(1) Attached below is the next-to-final of the outline of your
proposed paper which I constructed out of your previous msg.

I would appreciate it very much if you can check it and return
to me with any changes/revisions, at your earliest
convenience.

Thank you very much for your very interesting and important
paper.

Best, Tak
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Outline of Paper

Use of Networking to Deliver and Support Informal Learning

Education Development Center (EDC), Inc.
and
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

This paper discusses the work EDC has been done in collaboration
with UNDP, which mission is to promote human development and to
utilize networking as a tool. The proposed paper would examine four
major areas related to the use of electronic networking to support
informal learning and skill-building:

* Networking to extend access to information among people within
developing and industrialized countries who are usually bypassed by
economic and technological development.

* Networking to expand participation in decisions made in
international fora, such as the Women's Conference and the Social
Summit, especially by those who are directly affected by the summit
resolutions.

* Networking to support informal training -- which contributes
significantly to building the skills people need to establish
sustainable livelihoods and to do any job well.

* Use of a comprehensive model EDC has developed to maximize the
positive impact of networking on formal and informal
education/training

We envision a paper that will focus on discussion of concrete
projects, and examine the outcomes and lessons that have been
learned from them.
**************************************
Biographies of Janice Brodman

EDC was founded in 1958 by faculty from Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) and Harvard University and is one of America's
leading educational research and development organizations. EDC
currently employs over 350 professionals who work on a wide range of
projects around the world that address educational needs across the
human lifespan, with particular attention to the use of information,
education, and communications technologies. To date, EDC's
international work includes projects in more than 85 countries.

Janice Brodman is the Director of EDC's Center for Innovative
Management and Training Technologies (CIMTT). She has been working
on the use of microcomputers in development since the early 1980s.
She earned her Ph.D. at Harvard University in political economy with
particular focus on the impact of new technology adoption in
developing countries (Thesis: "Technology Change, Equity, and
Growth"). During the past 14 years, she has conducted projects
introducing and utilizing multimedia and electronic networks in a
range of developing countries.
**************************************
Address

Janice Brodman
Director, Center for Innovative Management and Training Technologies
Education Development Center, Inc.
55 Chapel Street
Newton, MA 02158-1060
617-969-7100 EXT. 2620
FAX: 617-332-6405
JaniceB@edc.org
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<<August 11, 1997>>

Albert V. Baez, Ph.D.
President
Vivamos Mejor/USA
58 Greenbrae Boardwalk
Greenbrae, CA 94904
415-461-2082
Baezav@aol.com

Dear Dr. Baez:

(1) Thank you very much for your email of 12/17/97 (ATTACHMENT I).

(2) I am very grateful for your permission of our having your very
interesting and excellent paper in our proposed book
"Electronic Global University System and Services."

ATTACHMENT II is the next-to-final of the outline, bio and
address which Tina Greenwood will include in our web site of
our book publishing project at;
<http://www.wiu.edu/users/milibo/wiu/resource/glosas/cont.htm>

The authors' list in the web, albeit crude skeleton form
yet, is the first layer. The authors' list will be
hyertexted to the outline in the second layer which will
then be hypertexted to their full paper in the third
layer.

Pls check and feel free to change and revise it, and send it
back to me at your earliest convenience.

(3) My replies/comments to your 12/17th msg are in << >>.

Looking forward to receiving your response soon,

Best, Tak
**************************************
ATTACHMENT I

From: Baezav@aol.com
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 20:09:31 -0500
To: utsumi@columbia.edu
Subject: GLOSAS/USA

December 17, 1996
Dear Dr. Utsumi: Thank you for your letter of December 4 and the
attachments.
You have my permission to reprint my paper titled "Teaching Youth
About the Environmental Impact of Science and Technology" I do not
have a copy to send you but you clearly have access to the text.
Incidentally, reading your version very rapidly I discovered on p.7
line 14 from foot, the word "aspect" which should be "respect".
Also, on p. 11, line 5 from foot it says "ut" which should be "at"

Since I found these by reading rapidly I suspect there may be other
typographical errors.

<<Many thanks for your pointing them out -- I have checked the
entire text again and corrected the OCR errors.>>

Finally, I cannot cope wth the volume of paper you sent me. I am now
84 and very busy lecturing on topics like "The Early Days of X-Ray
Optics"; "Reflections on Physics and Music"; "Respect and Affection
for the Earth -- the Basis of an Environmental Ethic" and "The Four
Cs - Curiosity, Creativity, Competence and Compassion - the real
basics for education." I am the President of the non-profit
organization called "Vivamos Mejor/USA" which runs a pre-school
activity based on the 4 Cs in a poor neighborhood of Xalapa, Mexico,
the country of my birth.
So I am still very busy and cannot devote much time to your project.
I wish you well.
Sincerely, Albert V. Baez, President, Vivamos Mejor/USA
(Vivamos mejor means "let us live better".)

<<Sounds very interesting. We are about to receive funds from
the NSF to set up wireless broad-band (115 Kbps to 3 Mbps)
Internet networks which will connect secondary schools in
Philadelphia/PA, Denton/TX and Honolulu/HI. This is Phase I
of our Secondary School Teacher Training Program (SSTTP)
project. Phase II is to develop instructional materials on
SMET areas with the use of advanced web technologies, e.g., 3D
animation, VRML, simulation model, etc. (We have submitted a
grant application to the Dept of Education.) Phase III is to
develop modality of electronic distance education with the use
of those wireless Internet and web teaching materials. (We
submitted our grant application to the DOC/TIIAP.) We plan to
have the teachers of schools teach students not only in their
locality but also in other locations even from their homes via
the Internet and/or Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) line.
We hope that this is to initiate our movement to create Greek
style mentor system even after their retirement with their
life-long pleasure and some compensations.

We are working with our Brazilian colleagues to set up similar
wireless Internet networks in Florianopolis, Manaus and Porto
Velho.

Should you be interested, pls visit web sites listed in the
announcement of my workshop at SENAI in Florianopolis, Brazil
on 6/19th (ATTACHMENT III) -- especially about CAADE, CATARINA
(3D animation of molecules spinning made by Brazilian), GLH
and Houston Community College, etc.>>
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ATTAACHMENT II

Outline of Paper

TEACHING YOUTH ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY

Albert V. Baez
TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
Vol. 16, No. 1, 1995
(Re-printed by permission)

The life support systems and non-renewable resources on the
Earth are being decimated by a burgeoning population which possesses
unprecedented power born of science and technology. The impact of
technology on the environment has in many ways been devastating.
Yet science and technology have also been the greatest forces for
beneficent social change in human history and will continue to be
needed to solve the economic and social problems of the future.
Since the future lies in the hands of our youth we must educate them
to cope with its environmental problems. The damage already done to
the environment is so great that all education and especially
education in science must become imbued with an environmental ethic
to reverse the present trend. It is noticed that the solution does
not lie in adding environmental ethics courses to the science
curriculum but in finding ways to allow ecological and environmental
concerns to permeate existing courses and textbooks. This could
have the added advantage of making them more relevant and
interesting. The environmental ethic must guide all aspects of our
lives and will also have to be taught by example outside of formal
education.
"How, should the science curriculum be structured and science
teaching organized so as to give insights into the ecological and
environmental impact of technology in modern society and instill in
young people a feeling of global responsibility?" This is the
charge to which this paper is addressed.
In response we shall consider the ecological problems that
confront humanity and how they are related to science and
technology. We will give some examples of how to incorporate
environmental concerns into basic science courses to achieve not
only an awareness of the impact of science and technology but also a
motivation on the part of young people to participate in
revitalizing the Earth's environment. Introduction of the
environmental dimension could, at the very least, make science
courses more relevant and interesting.

Contents
Introduction
The problem: an Earth in crisis
Four related problems
Technology and environmental destruction
The relation between science and technology
Human needs = real or perceived
Ecology = the newest science
Life, rights and ethics
Links between peace and the environment
Rethinking the basics. The "four Cs"
The special role of compassion
What can be done to infuse an environmental ethic into science and
technology
education?
Selected resources
Infusing ecological concerns into the teaching of the basic sciences
Biology
Chemistry
Physics
Mathematics
Who decides what to teach?
NOTES
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Biography of Albert V. Baez

Albert V. Baez is now President of Vivamos Mejor/USA, an
organization that sponsors educational and humanitarian projects for
child-care and community development in Latin America. He is a
physicist and Past Chairman of the Education Commission of the
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
and former Director of the Division of Science Teaching at Unesco,
Paris, among many other public services.
He has approximately 25 articles dealing with research in X-ray imaging
and related topics, and 25 articles dealing with the
teaching of physics and other sciences. Several articles dealing
with international science education and environmental education.
Some of his books are The New College Physics -- A Spiral Approach,
(W.H. Freeman, 1967) and Innovation in Science Education -- World-wide,
(UNESCO, 1976).
He received his honorary degree from The Open University of
Great Britain, Ph. D. from Stanford University, M.A. from Syracuse
University and B.A. from Drew University. His biographies are
listed in American Men and Women of Science, Who Knows and What,
Who's Who in the West, Who's Who in Science in Europe.
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Address

Albert V. Baez, Ph.D.
President
Vivamos Mejor/USA
58 Greenbrae Boardwalk
Greenbrae, CA 94904
415-461-2082
Baezav@aol.com
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ATTACHMENT III

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:
June 7, 1997 TAKESHI UTSUMI
Chairman,GLOSAS/USA
718-939-0928

"Global Lecture Hall (GLH)" (TM)
(multipoint-to-multipoint multimedia interactive videoconference)
to be held during the workshop on
"Low Cost Teleconferencing for
Affordable and Accessible Electronic Distance Education"
on the occasion of
The International Conference "Information Technology for Competitiveness -
Experiences and Demands for Education and Vocational Training"
organized by
The International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP)
Working Group 9.4: Information Technology in Developing Countries
June 19, 1997
(9:00 to 17:00: Brazil)
(8:00 to 16:00: EDT/USA)
(12:00 to 20:00: GMT)

Videoconference Center at
Centro de Tecnologia em Automacao e Informatica (CTAI/SENAI)
Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
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Internet is now becoming the future of multimedia telecommunications
at the lowest cost. It started in academics. Distance education is one
of its major use. In the distance education, the priority is (a) voice,
(b) content (i.e., text, image/photo, animation, application
program/simulation model, web), and (c) video, in the order. Internet can
now handle all of them fairly well; (a) by telephony, (b) by whiteboard,
etc., (c) by CU-SeeMe, etc.
Our next task is how to combine them for effective modality of
distance education, and this GLH is to test/demonstrate it. This task is
to be followed by our Secondary School Teacher Training Program (SSTTP)
project.
GLOSAS/USA will assist Brazilian colleagues in organizing a large
scale
GLH, which will focus on electronic distance education. This GLH will
cover the entire globe.

PURPOSES:
Many less developed countries are without good analog voice-grade tele-
phone networks, and hence without Internet access. Subsequently, use of
electronic distance education, though an economic advantage to them, is
not realized. Therefore, the purposes of the GLH are;
I. To promote interest of educators and decision-makers in underserved,
less developed countries in implementation of affordable and
accessible global electronic distance education across national
boundaries,
II. To have participants view and compare various advanced (yet
affordable) delivery systems with technical and economical pros and
cons,
III. To apply later demonstration technologies for underserved students
in rural/remote areas of the U.S. and around the world.

OBJECTIVES:
A. Demonstrate previously unexplored hybrid configurations of various
electronic distance education course delivery technologies,
B. Offer the participants a stage for meeting at a distance and gaining
confidence in using novel means of communication -- an opportunity
for hands-on "collaborative experiential learning" about the
technologies and their applications,
C. Gain knowledge of the different participants' countries' regulatory
environment that have thus far made sophisticated electronic
distance education (EDE) inaccessible to them,
D. Demonstrate the possibility of electronic networking among workshop
participants, and also for the promotion of collaborative research
and development among higher educational institutions in Brazil and
later around the world.

Our GLH demonstrations in the past decade have helped build a
network of leaders in the global electronic distance education movement in
many countries.

DELIVERY AND RANGE:
(a) Internet: Around the world with Iphone and CU-SeeMe, etc.

SCHEDULES (Brazil Time):
9:00 Lecture on "Low Cost Teleconferencing for Affordable and Accessible
Electronic Distance Education"
T. Utsumi, Global University in the U.S.A., New York, NY, USA

T. Utsumi will describe; (a) low cost teleconferencing, (b) GLH, (c)
Consortium for Affordable and Accessible Distance Education (CAADE),
(d) Secondary School Teacher Training Program (SSTTP) with video-
clipping show of previous GLHs (e.g., wireless telecom network
during GLH in Oct./'95 and CATARINA with a portable dish antenna via
INMARSAT between SENAI and UNESCO/Paris during mini GLH in
July/'96). He will also show following web accessing;

(a) About GLH with Hungarian Fulbright Commission in Budapest on
8/16/96;
<http://198.64.57.10/tgcccc/HCCS/glh.htm>
<http://198.64.57.10/tgcccc/HCCS/glhlink.htm>

(b) About CATARINA;
<http://www.terravista.com.br/global/home01.htm>

(d) About GLOSAS NEWS;
<http://www.wiu.edu/users/milibo/wiu/resource/glosas/cont.htm>
<http://www.visc.vt.edu/succeed/videoconf.html>

11:00 Presentation of FORUM Computer-Mediated Multimedia Conferencing
System (CMMCS) with web accessing and audio annotation.
T. Utsumi, Global University in the U.S.A., New York, NY, USA
(On behalf of Dr. Bill Klemm of FORUM Enterprises, Inc..)

FORUM web sites:
<http://www.ForumInc.com> -- about FORUM Inc.
<http://cvm.tamu.edu/~vaph/klemm/resume.html> -- photo of Dr. Klemm
<http://www.cvm.tamu.edu/~vaph/klemm> -- "Essence of FORUM" (5.5 min
audio annotation) and "Academic Deliverable Conferencing" (13 min
audio annotation)

Video clipping show of FORUM demo during GLH in Oct./'95 (if there
is enough time).

FORUM brochures will be distributed to attendees.

11:30 Tele-Lecturing on Brazilian Environmental/Socio-Economic/Political
Simulation Model with CU-SeeMe and VocalTec's Iphone and web
accessing.
Bruce P. Chadwick, Columbia University, NY, USA

Bruce Chadwick will describe his model, show a satellite image of
brush fire in Amazon basin with Iphone and send his video with CU-
SeeMe through Internet, while SENAI/tech people access his web
according to his instruction and project it to a large screen at
SENAI.

<http://www.columbia.edu/~bpc1>

12:00 Lunch

14:00 Presentation of Powerpoint Slide Show with Streaming Audio from web
site.
Roger Lee Boston, Houston Community College, Houston, TX, USA

<http://198.64.57.10/tgcccc/hccs/caade/phila.htm>

14:30 Demonstration of Sharevision via Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS)
with Houston Community College's Experience with Low Cost
Videoconferencing.
Roger Lee Boston, Houston Community College, Houston, TX, USA

15:00 Internet and Electronic Distance Education in Finland
Pekka Tapio Varis, Ph.D, University Of Tampere, Finland

Finland is a high-tech country and the capital of Internet, with
most of her populations and schools hooked with Internet, and as
having almost twice many host computers than the U.S.
Tapio Varis will present his talk from an ordinary analog telephone,
which goes to an Iphone gateway of Finnish Telecom, to worldwide
Internet, and to a computer at SENAI in Brazil.

15:15 Greeting
Paulo Melo, Coimbra University, Portugal

Paulo Melo will present his greeting on GLOSAS/Portugal from his
computer with Iphone which will be received by a computer at SENAI
in Brazil.

15:30 Demonstration of Virtual City with web accessing
Andrey Narvsky, St. Petersburg Marine Technical University, Russia

Andrey Narvsky will present his talk with VocalTec's software via
Internet while SENAI/tech people access <http://www.Cmm.ru> or
<http://www.lanck.ru>.

16:00 Hands-On Demonstration of ShareVision by Participants

Two computers with ShareVision and telephone hook-up will be
available for their demonstration and trial use, as
sending/receiving from/to each other, including screen capture, file
transfer, whiteboard exercise, etc.

16:55 Closing remark; Takeshi Utsumi

17:00 Adjourn

PARTICIPATION:
You can participate with your personal computer without use of
satellite nor dish antenna. You may download demo version (free of
charge) of following software;
(a) White Pine CU-SeeMe (30 day limitation);
<http://www.wpine.com>
(b) Cornell University CU-SeeMe (permanent);
<http://cu-seeme.cornell.edu>
(c) VocalTec's Iphone (Internet telephony) (14 day limitation);
<http://www.vocaltec.com>
When you are ready with CU-SeeMe, try to connect your computer with
a reflector at IP# 198.64.57.08 at Houston Community College. With CU-
SeeMe, you can send/receive video. (To send your video, you will need a
camera. Without camera, you can still receive other participants' video,
thus, participating passively -- i.e, receive-only.)
When you are ready with Iphone, use "glh" for the name of our
private chat room. With Iphone, you can talk anyone around the world
through Internet without paying expensive overseas telephone calls.
(However, please refrain your connection with presenters during their talk
on 6/19th -- Iphone is for point-to-point connection, thus you have to
rely on MAVEN audio conferencing of CU-SeeMe to hear what others are
saying, albeit less audio quality than Iphone.)
Please contact Takeshi Utsumi for instructions to participate, -- we
will particularly welcome from developing countries around the world.
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* Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D. *
* Laureate of Lord Perry Award for Excellence in Distance Education *
* Founder of CAADE *
* (Consortium for Affordable and Accessible Distance Education) *
* President, Global University in the U.S.A. (GU/USA) *
* A Divisional Activity of GLOSAS/USA *
* (GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association in the U.S.A.) *
* 43-23 Colden Street, Flushing, NY 11355-3998, U.S.A. *
* Tel: 718-939-0928; Fax: 718-939-0656 (day time only--prefer email) *
* INTERNET: utsumi@columbia.edu; Tax Exempt ID: 11-2999676 *
* FTP://champlaincollege.qc.ca (IP 198.168.102.231) *
* http://www.wiu.edu/users/milibo/wiu/resource/glosas/cont.htm *
* http://www.friends- *
* partners.org/oldfriends/education/globaluniv/synopsis.html *
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Originally posted at the Website: http://library.fortlewis.edu/~instruct/glosas/GN/ by Tina Evans Greenwood, Library Instruction Coordinator, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado 81301, e-mail: greenwood_t@fortlewis.edu, and last updated May 7, 1999. By her permission the whole Website has been archived here at the University of Tennessee server directory of GLOSAS Chair Dr. Takeshi Utsumi from August 9, 2000 by Steve McCarty in Japan.