Abstracts for the Program
To see the scheduled times for the following sessions, see the program. Please note that all presentations will be given in English.- Astronomy using the Charles Sturt University Remote Telescope (Bathurst, Australia) David McKinnon
In this session, you will visit the southern skies above the City of Bathurst in the Central West of New South Wales, 200 km to the west of Sydney, Australia. Associate Professor David McKinnon will demonstrate the use of the telescope and its capabilities via three interactive links: 1) an audio/video link, 2) a link to an Infra-Red Camera to see the telescope slewing around the sky and 3) a link to the telescope control computer to see the images captured by the CCD cameras on the telescope. Thousands of students in elementary and high school have used this system since 2000. An intensive research program accompanies this facility. Results show that students become more highly motivated by the science and with the sense of ownership developed through the educational program that accompanies telescope control.
- South India's Children's Songs, Chants, Dances, and Games (Chennai, India) Eric Miller
A presentation from Indian (Asia) children to experience the reach of global video conferencing. This intercultural presentation will clearly make the point.
Ramadan is a holy month for Muslims in general and for Egyptians in particular. Ramadan is the month of fasting for Moslems. This means that Muslims may eat or drink nothing, including water, while the sun shines. In this presentation, the presenter will explore how Egyptians calibrate this month and discuss their daily lives before they fast, while they are fasting, after they break fasting and during the evening to the early morning of the next day.
This presentation will describe a recent new initiative launched by the Egyptian Ministry of Communication and Information Technologies (MCIT).
A presentation on a project presented by the University in Scotland . AMI is concerned with new multimodal technologies to support human interaction, in the context of smart meeting rooms and remote meeting assistants. The project aims to enhance the value of multimodal meeting recordings and to make human interaction more effective in real time.
This presentation describes the "connected performance spaces" project between Royal Institute of Technology University and Stanford University. We made a music performance with musicians (2 in each place) and audience in two places separated by 10,000 km and nine time zones. The goal was to get the audience to feel as one.
In this presentation, new advanced lambda-based testbed under development in the state of São Paulo will be described.
- Development of A Collaborative Model for Videoconferencing in Distance Education (Fortaleza, Brazil) Cátia Oliveira
The presentation will describe the experience of the project “The Development of a Collaborative Model for Videoconferencing in Distance Education”, which had the aim of training the research group of Instituto UFC-Virtual in the collaborative use of videoconferencing tools. The experience in this project made it possible to develop technical and pedagogical skills in the use of videoconferences, resulting in the enhancement of the interactions.
Demonstrations of imaginative K-8 classroom activities in search of video collaboration. Hear about some unique classroom activities geared toward global learning in search of collaborators. Presentations via video and via live student demonstration.
The Global University System (GUS) is a worldwide initiative to create an advanced telecommunications infrastructure for accessing educational resources across national and cultural boundaries for global peace. The aim is to achieve "education and healthcare for all," anywhere, anytime and at any place.
The Globally Collaborative Environmental Peace Gaming (GCEPG) is to train would-be decision makers in crisis management, conflict resolution, and negotiation techniques with a globally distributed computer simulation system through a grid computer network. The Globally Collaborative Innovation Network (GCIN) is an extension of GCEPG and will foster creativity of youngsters around the world.
A presentation from the United Kingdom.
This presentation focuses on film and television representations of violence and poverty as an intrinsic dimension of the Brazilian social problem. The hypothesis is that certain films and television programs express different forms of contemporary “appropriation” of the mechanisms of producing audiovisual representation of urban poverty and violence. The idea here is to relate different forms of representation to the different ways in which the people who represent and/or are represented in each specific work perform. The ways in which people take part in the process of filming including rehearsal, rewritings of the script, sound track, mise en scéne, etc… express different games of appropriation of the mechanisms of constructing representation.
In the context of the wider project, this presentation deals with what could perhaps be called a perverse form of appropriation first of television and second of film apparatus. The presentation focuses on documentary film Ônibus 174 (Bus number 174), directed by José Padilha. Some of you probably saw or at least heard about the film and/or about the tragic event it refers to. Ônibus 174 reconstitutes a violence and poverty incident that happened on Rio de Janeiro’s Jardim Botânico neighborhood. On July 12 year 2000 a young black man hijacked 11 bus riders. The film places the TV reportage in perspective. By re-editing television footage, the film constitutes privileged material to feed research about the relations between the media, visibility, violence and performance in contemporary Brazil.
A presentation on how videoconferencing technology (distance learning) is paving way to learn, speak etc. languages from any point of the globe.
Presentation from a school in North Dakota in regards to Watershed education. Larimore students will present their watershed project at the Megaconference using green screen technology to "show" their six testing sites.
The presentation is a collaboration between the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) and the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD) both at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, and the Burpee Museum of Natural History in Rockford, IL. The presentation will focus on the interactive exhibit of the Burpee Museum’s remarkable new 2,200-square-foot permanent inhabitant, Jane: Diary of a Dinosaur. Jane is an incredibly well preserved skeleton of a juvenile T. rex that was discovered in 2001 in the Hell Creek Formation in southeastern Montana, by staff and volunteers from the Burpee Museum.
This presentation is on a project which introduces students to collaborating with partners in remote locations, teaching them to work with a mediatized scene partner, and allowing them to explore the creative possibilities (and shortfalls) inherent in the medium of videoconferencing and the presentation will also a feature 20-minute to 30-minute scene(s) from August Strindberg's A Dream Play with performers in two (or three) locations.
A presentation on the network, how videoconferencing is applied on this network and brief on the Telehealth Network.
- Live from the Field: Videoconferencing Programs from North Texas! (Ft. Worth, Texas, USA) Gerri Maglia
A presentation showing some live programs taken from the field in Ft. Worth Texas using the technology of videoconferencing.
Martin Gutelius, a naturalist from the Stark County Park District, will discuss some cultural and natural history of northeast Ohio.
SeaTrek brings high-energy, multimedia science programming right into the classroom using videoconferencing and Internet technology.
Our programs feature real scientists working in the field with interviews
showing how their interests led them to their careers. Each program is
supported by a free, downloadable, companion curriculum, aligned with
National and Sunshine State Science Education Standards
- Building Bridges to the World: Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to become Globally Competent (Norwalk, California, USA) John Haas
How can we prepare students and tomorrow's teachers to become globally competent, embrace change, and recognize the interconnectedness of all people and systems to become productive and effective in the world arena? Building Bridges to the World: Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to become Globally Competent.
Presentation on how a place with literally no sign of real winter at all competes at Winter sports event.
Seven and eight year olds will sing the Xmas song "Six White Boomers", a typical Australian Christmas song. After the song the kids are going to tell us how Xmas is
celebrated in Australia (Will we learn if Santa is wearing shorts and sandals?). Since a boomer is another word for a Kangaroo, Ranger Karene Watson from the ACT Department of Urban Services will bring in a young "Wallaroo” and talk to the children about wildlife in Australia. The end of the session is for questions and answers on Christmas in Australia or native animals.
Presentation on Australia's whaling history and will tell the story of "Old Tom" who was
part of a pack of Killer Whales who worked with the whalemen of Two Fold Bay to herd baleen whales into the bay.
We'd like to attempt to run an on-line "class" for participants around the world. The topic of the class would be "How to meet different learning expectations around the world using videoconferencing." Our students and teachers would act as hosts for the class, and would discuss and then illustrate, from their various perspectives, how videoconferencing could benefit the learning experience.
The CNIC ( Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, as the supporter and manager of Videoconference System of CAS ( Chinese Academy of Sciences), will make a presentation introducing CAS and its large scale Videoconference System.. The introduction will cover a simple introduction to the Videoconference System of CAS focusing on its applications in diverse fields, such as the management of CAS, the Knowledge Innovation Program, and the collaborations and communications in research and education fields. Furthermore, CNIC will introduce the programs of GLORIAD and eScience which are dedicated to offering strong support for advanced network applications and global collaborations in key areas of sciences. To conclude, CNIC will give a vivid presentation about popularization of sciences all over the world, which begins with the adventures of a giant panda cub and ends up with several questions about Chinese panda while anyone who sends correct answers to the designated e-mail address before January 1st, 2006 will receive one digital photo of panda cubs in return.
Indian songs performed by a group in Australia + Fiji. Songs will be sung in Punjabi, one of the 22 official languages in India. Punjab is one of the 28 states in India.