Internet
Accessibility for the 21st Century : Accessibility 1998 Current as of 3 May 1999
Distance Collaboration
Take me to the Chat Logs!
Take me to the April 13th Assignment!
United Nations, New York

Summary
The objective of this segment is to demonstrate and evaluate new digital technologies
for distance collaboration that are revolutionizing research and training on a global
scale. In addition, participants will be offered the opportunity to create their own Web
sites for global collaboration with the help of easy-to-use Web publishing tools.
This segment of the Seminar on Internet Accessibility
will be offered by Matt
Bonham, who is Professor of Political Science, and Chair of the International
Relations Program in the Maxwell School of
Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.
Format
Web publishing and video conferencing techniques were described and demonstrated during
the all-day seminar offered at the United Nations in New York on 16 December 1998 (see
below). A follow-up text chat session is scheduled for 13 April 1999 in a special IRC
channel. During this session the participants will learn how to create their own Web site,
using MS Word or an editor to mark up documents, which they will transfer to the AIMS
server.
Learning Outcomes
Professional training in:
Policy advocacy in
digital environments.
Web publishing for distance
collaboration.
Text chat for collaboration
on issues of accessibility.
The Final Product
Particpants will become familiar with the resources that are available for the Seminar
on Internet Accessibility and develop a Web Site that provides opportunites for global
collaboration in their area of interest.
Web Publishing Resources
Video Conferencing Resources
Note: Real Media
files can be viewed in a browser, with a Real Player G2
plug-in, which can be downloaded free from RealNetworks.
Video Capture
Adobe Premiere 5.1
Videos from
the TWA Hijacking Simulation
Short video captures with subtitles
Video Encoding
RealPublisher
Interactive Video Conferencing
Example:Virtual Conference on
Challenges to Global
Governance
Internet Phone with Video
CU-SeeMe
Microsoft NetMeeting
Hyper-Media Live and On Demand: Examples
The Digitized Tapes of the Excom
Deliberations
"Conversations with
History"
The
Ellsberg Interview
Emerging Infections
Information Network
Live from the Forum
MediaVision
Text Chat Resources
Live Text Chat on the Internet
The mIRC is used world-wide to access
channels on Internet Relay Chat (IRC). The mIRC is easy to download, install, and use.

ICQ ("I Seek You") combines
sophisticated Web-based search engines with fully synchronous chat and file transfer.
The Palace is a graphics-intensive
environment for group chat sessions. The Palace was used in the 1998 Virtual Conference on
Challenges to Global Governance
Challenges to Global Governance Chat
Room
Log of the Text Chat
from the Virtual Conference on Challenges to Global Governance
Microsoft NetMeeting combines
extensive collaboration tools with high quality video and audio. An alternative for both
MAC and PC users is Timbuktu
by Netopia, which is compatible with
Microsoft NetMeeting
"How
Long"
Copyright (C) 1999, G. Matthew Bonham
All rights reserved.
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