On Friday, February 25, 8th grader David Young was interacting via CU-SeeMe with Greg German, a researcher from Ohio. David asked me if Greg could send us Maven...a program that would allow us to send audio across the Internet. Within 2 minutes Greg sent a binhexed version of Maven to me. It took another two minutes to install and launch Maven, and make an audio connection with Greg!
We were viewing each other via CU-SeeMe and talking to each other via Maven -- all over the Internet...and we were really excited!!
We immediately called Laura C. at CNIDR to tell her of our discovery. We sent Maven to Laura via Fetch and within 2 minutes she had installed it and launched and established a voice connection with Oceanside and Ohio. Then Laura told Jane who told George who told Don who told Priscilla...and within another 10 minutes we were all looking at one another via CU-SeeMe and talking to one another via Maven...ON THE INTERNET...it was beyond cool!
Finally, Greg called Charley Kline, the author of Maven, and told him what we were doing...and Charley also became excited...because there had never been more than a 3-way conversation before...so Charley joined the group via CU-SeeMe...and the students thanked him personally!
Then Greg played music for Oceanside and Oceanside showed a video, complete with sound to everyone else...our imaginations were running wild! In less than 30 minutes Ohio, California, North Carolina, Illinois and Virginia shared and implemented their discovery -- and the impetus was an 8th grade GSH student!
It makes one wonder what other great and historic events CAN and WILL occur when students and their teachers are enrolled in the Global Schoolhouse!
I just had to share this experience with all of you!
Yvonne
Yvonne Marie Andres,
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(The article first appeared on Sat, 26 Feb 1994, on Global Schoolhouse Schools gsh-schools-list@nic.cerf.net)
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