Subject: GLOBAL LEARN DAY II IS A 28-HOUR, GROUND-BREAKING, INTERNATIONAL WEBCAST
Arun-Kumar Tripathi (tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de)
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 17:17:32 +0200 (MET DST)
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 17:17:32 +0200 (MET DST) From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de> To: roundtable@cni.org Subject: GLOBAL LEARN DAY II IS A 28-HOUR, GROUND-BREAKING, INTERNATIONAL WEBCAST Message-Id: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980904171647.22346D-100000@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Dear ROUNDTable Members,
It is a great honour to be the Tireless and Fresh Volunteer at Global
Learn Day -II event listserv. I am really enjoying the feedback
of postings. I hope, others are also ready to join this GLD-II
project. Please read the release below in details, and contact me
for further informations. For latest instant summary of GLD-II Event,
Please send a blank message to <mediakit@jjplaza.com>
Regards from Tireless
Arun-Kumar Tripathi
<tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
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Contact: Linda Riddell at <llr@lightlink.com>
(GLDII Webcast by Broadcast.com)
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AUGUST 29, 1998:
GLOBAL LEARN DAY II IS A 28-HOUR, GROUND-BREAKING, INTERNATIONAL WEBCAST
ON OCTOBER 10 AND 11;
NEW RAMPS WITH NEW TOOLS (NO ONE GETS LEFT BEHIND) IS ONE OF ITS THEMES.
This release includes three parts:
(1) Announcement of Access and Disability component of Global Learn Day II
(2) Backgrounder for Access and Disability component
(3) Backgrounder for overall Global Learn Day II
What's "Pebbles" the video conferencing robot up to? What's cutting edge
technology in the virtual conference room or classroom? Did you know the
typewriter was technology originally invented for use by persons who
were blind?
A three hour portion of the Global Learn Day II webcast is being called
** New Ramps with New Tools (No one gets left behind)**. This portion
of the ground breaking 28 hour webcast will focus on how access through
technology has greatly increased the possibilities for people with
disabilities to be part of the mainstream in their countries. The
panels and presentations during the event will focus on the computer
adaptations that permit people with disabilities to participate fully
in the information age.
One story will be that of a parent in North Bay, Ontario who was
isolated in raising her child with a disability, before the computing
networks came around. Now, she has help and support from people around
the world.
And as the baby boomer population grows older, and as we head towards
the year 2000, there will be an increasing focus on technological
developments that enable people to stay active and involved in their
communities. Historically, technology for people with disabilities has
been of great help to everybody. Did you know that the telephone was
considered an experiment that failed, originally invented for Alexander
Graham Bell's wife, a person who was deaf?
The organizers of Global Learn Day II at the Benjamin Franklin Institute
of Global Education, San Diego, California have announced that the three
hour segment will begin on October 10th, starting in Canada, at 9:00 PDT
GMT1700 12:00 EDT). It will continue in New York State in the United
States of America until 12 PDT GMT 2000 15:00 EDT. (See attached
details of the 3 hour presentation).
For more information contact:
Norm Coombs <nrcgsh@rit.edu>, Telephone: (716) 442 4059 Professor,
Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York and chair of
the Internet programme, EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information).
Bill McQueen <wmcqueen@oise.utoronto.ca>, Telephone: (416) 410 2491
Producer, Fireweed Media Productions. Toronto, Canada.
John Hibbs <hibbs@bfranklin.edu>, Telephone: (619) 230 0212 Director,
Benjamin Franklin Institute of Global Learning. San Diego, California. USA.
Web URL: http://www.bfranklin.edu Email <mediakit@jjplaza.com> for instant
summary of Global Learn Day II.
**BACKGROUNDER TO GLOBAL LEARN DAY II NEW RAMPS WITH NEW TOOLS (NO
ONE GETS LEFT BEHIND)**
On October 10th and 11th this year the 28 hour (non stop), the Global
Learn Day II webcast will be seen, heard and participated in by several
hundred thousand persons on the Internet. This around the world Cyber
Voyage will visit 21 ports covering more than 200 countries. The
webcast celebrates new opportunities and new technologies for distance
education, in fact learning for everybody, no matter where they live.
Technology of all kinds has played a role in improving the lives of
people with many types of disabilities all over the globe. The Webcast
will include video, panel discussions and user interactivity related to
many aspects of education, technology, access and disability. A wide
range of leading and cutting edge technology for persons with
disabilities will be seen and discussed and the exchange of innovative
ideas will take place interactively between the panelists and
viewer/participants in Cyberspace. New solutions that were applied
locally, may have international significance. The stories will be as
current and relevant as possible.
The New Ramps with New Tools (No one gets left behind) exploration of
this technology will be led by Dr. Norman Coombs, Professor at the
Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York and chair of
the Internet programme, EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information).
He will be joined in Canada by Bill McQueen and Don Peuramaki,
previously members of the production team of the *Disability Network*
television series at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and by Jutta
Treviranus of the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre of the University
of Toronto.
During the Canadian portion of the 3 hour presentation an exploration
will be undertaken of functional and practical technological solutions
to the inclusion of persons with disabilities in society and their
access to information. It will be discovered that these are relatively
low cost solutions, and PC based. Personal stories from people with
disabilities will show what it means to be included in society when
technological solutions are made available. No one is left behind.
One story is that of a parent from North Bay, Ontario. She was very
isolated in raising her child with a disability, before the computing
networks came around. Now, she has help and support from people and
virtual communities around the world.
"New Ramps" will show where to go for information about these resources
and how people with disabilities use this technology to fully
participate in the community, in schools and higher education and in the
workplace. There will be a visit to SNOW (Special Needs Opportunity
Windows). It is a pilot project aimed at developing ways for learners
with special needs to electronically access curriculum materials; and
to PEBBLES, a project that allows students who must stay at home or
in a hospital to attend a school through a videoconferencing robot.
(http://snow.utoronto.ca/index.html; http://snow.utoronto.ca/pebbles.html)
There will be discussion about universal design and how barriers to
access can be overcome. Discussions will show how technology has taken
a step up, and how the consumer has also moved a step up in their
knowledge of computers and technology. During the hour presentation
segments will examination the impact of access to computers, and access
to computing networks and connecting to virtual communities.
Through the personal stories of people with disabilities themselves and
the experts who create the hardware and software, specific
hardware/software solutions for people with disabilities will be
surveyed. A final section will look at concerns facing people with
disabilities and access to websites.. Our presentations are for the
consumer with disabilities who is information hungry. The online viewer
will be encouraged to participate in the discussions.
The stop over in New York State will highlight the distance learning
programmes of the Rochester Institute of Technology and especially its
work with deaf and hard of hearing through its National Technical
Institute for the Deaf.
Several projects sponsored by the National Science foundation to
encourage people with disabilities to work in the sciences will be
presented, including conversations with high school and college
students. Researchers developing new tools to provide tactile access
to graphic images will be discussed including Dr. L. Scadden and
Dr. J. Gardner.
The Internet model of access to information developed by EASI is also
presented. EASI is deeply involved in distance learning as a way to
spread the gospel of access to the information age for all. This work
can be seen on the web at http://www.rit.edu/~easi and includes audio
and video content. In the information age, people with disabilities are
truly the information hungry, and the information highway has opened a
world of opportunity for them.
Steven Gilbert of the Teaching, Learning and Technology Group, an
Affiliate of the American Association for Higher Education, will
describe how technology is now rapidly transforming classrooms as well
as providing distance learning. Many leaders are concerned as to how
this revamping of how we teach and learn will impact women, minorities
and people with disabilities.
The NCR Corporation will demonstrate some tools it has developed to
permit disabled people to use banking machines and describe how tools
designed for the disabled actually make many technologies more friendly
and useable for everyone.
For more information contact:
Norm Coombs <nrcgsh@rit.edu>, Telephone: (716) 442 4059 Professor,
Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York and chair of
the Internet programme, EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information).
Bill McQueen <wmcqueen@oise.utoronto.ca>, Telephone: (416) 410 2491
Producer, Fireweed Media Productions. Toronto, Canada.
John Hibbs <hibbs@bfranklin.edu>, Telephone: (619) 230 0212 Director,
Benjamin Franklin Institute of Global Learning. San Diego, California. USA.
Web URL: http://www.bfranklin.edu Email <mediakit@jjplaza.com> for instant
summary of Global Learn Day II.
**BACKGROUNDER FOR THE OVERALL GLOBAL LEARN DAY II On October 10 a
second round the world voyage will be launched into the waters of
Internet Cyberspace. The Global Clipper Ship will make its voyage to 21
ports of call over twenty eight hours. The expedition will explore how
learning, education and access to information can be extended to every
corner of the earth through existing Internet technology and the
development of new computing technologies. During the earth wide
voyage, thousands upon thousands of persons from around the world will
see, learn, and discuss ways for creating new opportunities gaining
knowledge through advances in technology that will benefit all
humankind.
Global Learn Day II is an international webcast focusing on developments
in distance education and Internet technology. The project was
initiated by the Benjamin Franklin Institute in San Diego. This
innovative webcast starts out on October 10th in Guam and then moves
around the globe over 24 hours. It connects people in such places as
New Zealand, Japan, China, Egypt, England, and Canada. This is the
second year for Global Learn Day, although this year's project is more
complex than last year's. (See the website at www.bfranklin.edu)
As GLD II opens in the early hours of October 10th on Guam, it will be
hosted by the Governor of Guam, and co hosted from Wellington New
Zealand, by the Mayor of Wellington . He will deliver an address on
"where the planet will be at the beginning of the new millennium".
For more information contact:
Norm Coombs <nrcgsh@rit.edu>, Telephone: (716) 442 4059 Professor,
Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York and chair of
the Internet programme, EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information).
Bill McQueen <wmcqueen@oise.utoronto.ca>, Telephone: (416) 410 2491
Producer, Fireweed Media Productions. Toronto, Canada.
Welcome aboard!
Benjamin Franklin Institute of Global Education
4241 Jutland Drive, Suite 2000, San Diego, CA 92117
Voice: 619-230-0212, Fax: 619-230-0212
http://www.bfranklin.edu/gld98/media.html
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GLDII
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Thank you for listening..
Kind Regards
Arun
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