<<March 20, 2000>>

Roger Lee Boston <rboston@tenet.edu>

Dr. Fadia Alvic <Fadia.Alvic@rcenter.org>
 

Dear Roger:
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(1)  Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I).

(2)  YES, I am very glad to see many of our electronic colleagues are now
     contacting each other around the world.

     This is the sure and practical way to foster friendship, trust and peace
     among them -- which is the very basic goal of our GLOSAS.

     Thanks a lot for your collaborative effort!!

(3)  Thanks also for your reply comments (ATTACHMENT II).

(4)  During my visit to Renaissance Center in Dickson, TN on 3/15th, I
     visited your web site <http://www.teched.org/starlink> with T1 line at
     1.5 Mbps -- I tried both 20 K and 220 K bps bandwidth.

     I did not encounter any buffering interruption as I reported in my
     previous listserve distribution "Exciting show on low-cost distance
     learning by Roger Boston et al. -February 20, 2000" at
     <http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve/global-univ-2000.html>.  The
     interruption occurred when I tried with my 56 Kbps dial-up modem.

     This means that we now definitely need broadband Internet even at
     everybody's desktop in remote/rural areas!!

Dear Fadia:
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(5)  Pls visit <http://www.corbisimages.com/pano/default.asp> and click Jumbo
     to view 360 degree panoramics.

     Although this is not streaming audio/video, you may use the same
     technique for the 360 degree panoramic view of your rotunda which I
     suggested in my previous msg.

     This panorama shows in almost 2/3 of my 17 inch computer screen.

          I am viewing this with my PowerMac and QuickTime, but I am sure
          that you can view it with your Window 98, too -- it is said that,
          because of this QuickTime technology, PowerMac has an edge over
          Window machine in multimedia field.

Best, Tak
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                          ATTACHMENT I

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 16:51:46 -0500
From: roger boston <rboston@tenet.edu>
To: utsumi@friends-partners.org
Subject: Nice Job!

David word from STARLINK is that your segment and John Hibbs were really
well received yesterday, overall I think we did very well, and wanted to
thank you! for the nice effort.

Will write Colette and the others too shortly.

Tak you must feel good, to see some collaborative fruits continue to
unfold from the great Tent you have pitched across this planet over the
past few years -- see how those of us who have gathered under that
canvass now continue with this work?

By the way I may have this up online by tonight at
http://www.teched.org/starlink
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                         ATTACHMENT II

Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 06:39:24 -0600
From: Roger Boston <rboston@tenet.edu>
To: gu-glh@friends-partners.org, utsumi@friends-partners.org
Subject: Re: Great and exciting show on low cost distance learning  by Roger
etal

Some responses,  below:

Tak Utsumi wrote:

> (3)  I'm amazed with the advancement of data compression technology used by
>      RealPlayer.  It is certainly the best so far I have ever seen before.
>      The audio is almost Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) or CD quality.

The modem stream you listened to / watched was coded at only 20K bandwidth!

>      The audio is the absolute necessity of videoconferencing, but, alas,
>      what the audio said often be forgotten!!  You then need to supplement >
>      it with images of CONTENTS in order to be remembered by students.

Remember:
this was a SATELLITE ONLY event.
I, as an afterthought, decided to offer this program as a streamed media
presentation to the web as slow and fast speeds for comparison purposes.

If we were to offer this same program as an INTERNET event, and to small
audiences, I would have handled the visuals as separate web pages, controlled
by the audio stream and changing at the proper moment in the presentation,
also provided for interactivity through
(a)  Keyboard live chat
(b) Multiuser audio talking room

These methods I am prepared to show at the next workshop I do for at Manila
or this May at Manaus.

>      However, the audio was often cut off, no lip-synchronization, and many
>      download data buffering intervals -- sometimes I had to wait for 20 to
>      30 minutes to start next streaming!!

==> TCPIP provides alternate paths, sometimes much better, when you stop and
restart the troublesome stream
== > the modem stream should play instantly and with no buffering, needing
only a true 20K of bandwidth.
==> the 220K high speed and visually CLEAR version requires a true and
uninterrupted 220K of useable bandwidth.

>    They were better than analog/digital satellite broadcasting
>    videoconference, and can certainly take over them in the near future --
>    even such as Space Collaboration System (SCS) of Japan with $100
>    million to connect only 125 or so schools.

Oh yes!
And that is why I decided to show such promise, by streaming this Starlink
event.  So that more would be aware of tis coming option.

> (8)  Roger:
>      Can you send me its file?  I will then be able to store it in the hard
>      drive of my laptop and retrieve it immediately, as if I access through
>      high speed line.  How big is the file?

Which file do you want?
the 20K MODEM version is      16 megabytes.
the 220K high speed version is 166 megabytes

I can arrange for you to download either.

>      I also wonder if you can figure out to have those slides and still
>      images to be appeared in the right hand column with web broadcasting
>      while you talk.

Sure.
Already figured out.
You will see in action at Manaus, or in Manila, which ever happens first :)

>           I suppose that those TV studio people are still with analog TV
>           commercial age and haven't thought of utilizing or combining the
>           magnificent features of Internet and computer power.

Not till they saw what you have just seen did it occur to them in such
dramatic way, that the high costs of the past will soon be distant memories,
now that we have new and emerging options.

>           Alex:
>           =====
>
>           I want you to keep this in your mind when we do our demonstrations
>           at TV Amazona in Manaus and if they will broadcast it through
>           Internet as they did during our GLH in October, 1998.

I will help Alex with this.
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                      List of Distribution

Roger Lee Boston
Rockwell Chair/Instructor
Distance Education/Technology Center
Houston Community College System
4310 Dunlavy Street
P.O.Box 7849
Houston, Texas 77006
USA
Tel: +1-713-718 5224
Fax: +1-713-718 5301
rboston@tenet.edu
boston_r@hccs.cc.tx.us (secondary)
http://www.rboston.com
http://www.teched.org/
http://www.hccs.cc.tx.us
http://www.teched.org/Finland
http://www.teched.org/ChinaLive
http://www.teched.org/starlink

Dr. Fadia Alvic
Program Director, Renaissance Center
and the Tennessee Virtual University (TVU)
UT Office of Statewide Continuing Education
The Renaissance Center
855 Highway 46 South
PO Box 608
Dickson, TN  37056
615-740-5508
Fax: 615-740-5618
Fadia.Alvic@rcenter.org
http://www.rcenter.org

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