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TU4022--Telecommunications, Distance Learning, and Collaborative Interchange (3)

Teachers College, Columbia University
Fall Term 1995


October 10 -- Videoconferencing and Education

Lecture:

  • Demonstration of Internet teleconferencing via CUSeeMe and Apple QuickTime Conferencing (not yet released to the public).
  • Teleconference via CUSeeMe and discussion of prospects for teleconferenceing {CUSeeMe or IRC chat with Jaime Sanchez in Santiago, Chile? or Margaret Chan in Sydney, Australia}
  • 10 Internet Tasks Exercise -- Thane Terrill
  • Team discussion of Ponting chapters. Team writeups to go on the web for reference and comparison, by Oct 24
  • Resources:

  • CUSeeMe FAQ : CU-SeeMe, a Macintosh and PC videoconferencing program, is available free from Cornell University under copyright of Cornell and its collaborators.
  • CUSeeMe Event Guide: The place to be, other than CuSeeMe . This site has been Netscape 1.1 zapped . People Pages . The CU-SeeMe phone book. Look up your friends and then call them on your CU-SeeMe videophone! . Events . The Definitive Event List . Submit . Fill out ...
  • CU Connect: Seeking an alternative to the "reflector scene"? Try CU Connect. CU Connect will randomly select someone else who is also running CU Connect, and make a direct connection between you and that other person.
  • PERSONAL HOMEPAGE ASSIGNMENT DUE.