Videoconferencing in the Classroom live presentation now available

[Candice Russell]

The Live Webcast for the Videoconferencing in the Classroom presentation is 
now available from Merit's website, http://www.merit.edu/

For those of you who are unable to watch today's webcast, an archive will 
become available in approximately 10 days.

-- Candice Russell, Merit

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Merit Network, Inc., is pleased to present "Videoconferencing in the 
Classroom: Conveying Conversational Cues through Video," a presentation by 
Milton Chen, Ph.D. Candidate, Human Computer Interaction Lab, Stanford 
University.

   Tuesday, April 15, 2003, 4:00-5:30 PM
   ITCS Conference Center
   Arbor Lakes, 1st Floor, Building #1
   4251 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MI

You are invited to attend this presentation in person (refreshments will be 
served) or online (bring your own refreshments) via a live webcast from 
Merit's website, http://www.merit.edu. The link for the broadcast will 
become available at 3:45 PM on April 15. Both in person and online viewers 
will be invited ask questions.

Chen is an engaging speaker who has accomplished serious research in 
videoconferencing. According to Chen:

"The concept of using videoconferencing to link remote scientists to a K-12 
classroom is recently championed by Merit, NASA, and Intel. In this talk, I 
will use the historical failures of videoconferencing as a framework to 
suggest when using videoconferencing can be beneficial and when it can be 
harmful in a classroom. I will describe recent advances in 
videoconferencing technology and discoveries in communication psychology. I 
will describe my experience of hosting a 3-month pilot class at Stanford 
that uses videoconferencing to link students and experts from Sweden, 
Germany, and Slovenia. Lastly, I will demonstrate vLink, a software-based, 
TV-quality videoconferencing system. The software embeds as a web component 
to transform Internet Explorer into a videoconferencing portal."

Milton Chen is a Ph.D. student in Human Computer Interaction supervised by 
Pat Hanrahan and Terry Winograd at Stanford University. During the keynote 
address at the Fall 2002 Intel Developer Forum, Intel President, Paul 
Otellini, demonstrated the videoconferencing software Milton developed for 
his thesis. Milton has published in ACM Multimedia, IEEE Multimedia, 
Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware, and CHI.