CONTACT: TAKESHI UTSUMI, Chairman, GLOSAS/USA, 718-939-0928
Date: Thursday, July 7, 1994
Time: 9:00 to 12:00 (Eastern Daylight Time/U.S.A.)
Range: (a) Via satellites: North, Central and South America; Western,
Central and Eastern Europe; Scandinavia;
Baltic; Ukraine, Western Russia,
Mediterranean, etc. (Some depend on the
satellites we are now confirming.)
(b) Via Internet: Around the world with Internet nodes.
By Mr. Greg Cole, The University of Tennessee -- mixed media (text, graphics, image, audio, and video) information exchange via Internet, as integrating information from all of the best Internet-based tools and utilities -- Listservers, Gophers, WAIS databases, FTP archives, etc. -- a forerunner of "Just-In-Time," individualized, asynchronous education.
By Mr. Richard Cogger of Cornell University, Apple/Moscow and others -- a black and white video (10 to 15 frame per second [fps]) with Macintosh and IBM compatible machines -- may also include audio conferencing via Internet.
By Messrs Mike McCann and Donald Paul Brutzman of the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and others -- text, graphics, image, whiteboard, audio, and video (1 to 3 fps) via 200 Kbps bandwidth -- with scientific visualizations of a global circulation model for ocean currents.
By Messrs Ren Moore and Rob Hall of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in California and Moscow (and possible participation from Sidney, Australia, too) -- text, graphics, image, whiteboard, audio, and video (10 to 15 fps).
By Mr. Jim Miller of SYNECTICS -- text, graphics, image, whiteboard, audio, and video (10 to 15 fps) via 9.6 Kbps bandwidth. ShareView with a Magnavox portable dish antenna at Moscow conference site will be connected with a ShareView at the U. of TN (or Governors State University and/or Nebraska Educational TV which will be relayed to the U. of TN via satellite), and next with the World Bank which will be relayed to the U. of TN via PictureTel.
ShareView at Moscow conference site will be directly connected with a ShareView at the U. of TN with the use of a portable dish antenna of Mobile Telesystems Inc. (MTI) -- via two hops of INMARSAT satellite audio channel.
Interconnection of two ShareView units via audio subchannels of a satellite will also be demonstrated by Dr. Mel Muchnik of Governors State University and Mr. Timothy Cook of Nebraska Educational TV. Each of them will uplink analog signals which will be downlinked at the U. of TN to produce two split screens side-by-side, so that how to teach Japanese Kanji brush stroke sequences to students at GSU can be shown on whiteboard of ShareView unit.
These demonstrations are steps towards one-to-many receive-only ShareView system via inexpensive narrow-band channel of satellite, which are intended for students in rural and remote areas where there is no Internet node, as explained in the Call for Participation in Project MMOA memo [see GN/GE/IV/1 for GLOSAS' Project "Multi-Media of America (MMOA)" **]. Video of instructor, handwriting in color on an electronic whiteboard, image/graphic with annotation, dynamic graphic presentation by real-time execution of an application program/simulation model, etc., can be seen in windows on computer screen at students' sites. Yet these experiences can include high levels of interaction and feedback (via email, fax, etc.) amongst students and instructors.
** or retrieve the memo by FTP -- as explained above -- from directory /pub/glosas/mmoa. More detailed descriptions of the communications tools used on July 7th can also be retrieved from directory /glosas/glh/tools.
The computer screen will be uplinked for worldwide broadcast. If you have a satellite downlink facility and our satellite foot-prints cover your area, you can receive our satellite signal. You can also participate with your personal computer and/or workstation which are directly connected to TCP/IP oriented Internet without use of satellite nor dish antenna.
Other than participation fee (see registration form below), all participants have to be responsible for the costs of (1) down/uplinking from/to satellites; (2) telephone call to a videoconference center at the University of Tennessee for Q&A; and (3) sending fax to the center for backstage coordination.
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"Global Lecture Hall" (GLH)
for
"COMPARE AND EVALUATE AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGIES: LEARNING THROUGH USING"
at the occasion of
The First International Conference on Distance Education in Russia
Convention Center, Russian Academy of Science
Moscow, Russia
Thursday, July 7, 1994
9:00 to 12:00 (Eastern Daylight Time/U.S.A.)
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Registration Form (omitted)
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June 1994
GLOSAS NEWS was orinally posted to the WWW at URL: http://library.fortlewis.edu/~instruct/glosas/cont.htm 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 July 10, 2000 by Steve McCarty in Japan.