• Simon Fraser University at Harbour Centre (Vancouver BC, Canada)
  Submitted by: Richard K. Smith, Associate Director, Management of Technology Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology

Our research and teaching is sponsored and the sponsorship splits the activities between two universities. We knew from the outset that this would be a challenge and we sought to identify and obtain solutions that would put us at the cutting edge of distance education. CU-SeeMe is an example of that kind of solution. We were one of the first off-campus sites to try it. We are using CU-SeeMe in distance education graduate seminars in management of technology including masters and Ph.D level courses conducted in four time zones. A typical conference has Richard Smith in Vancouver, Paul Guild in Waterloo, with Cape Breton added in at times. Mexico and U.S. links will be made soon and China and Singapore after that. A typical week includes an assigned reading, a written presentation distributed electronically, an oral presentation distributed by telephone and CU-SeeMe with an in-house tool allowing PowerPoint slides to be triggered remotely on IP networks. We run the seminars as 'normal' as we can in Waterloo, and then use the distance links to make the 'remote' students as at home as possible. We use Hypercard, PowerPoint, electronic mail, AppleShare file servers, and most recently Web documents to share textual and visual (but non-video) information.

• Bell Atlantic
  Submitted by: Christopher Callender, District Network Manager

At Bell Atlantic we are the customers' first choice for communication and information services in every market we serve, domestic and international. My responsibilities include working with the ISP's/OLS (On-Live Service Providers) on promotions, marketing and positioning of ISDN. At Bell Atlantic we have used CU-SeeMe for several years now. White Pine Software’s support pulled together my hardware, platform, and software solution for a "one stop call" for IP video customer support.

For information about CU-SeeMe and other conferencing solutions go to:

http://www.wpine.com/products/CU-SeeMe/

For information about other DVC solutions go to:

http://www.videotalk.co.uk/home.html

http://www.intel.com/proshare/conferencing/products/pvsdata.htm