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Blog Action Day is on again in 2009. Mark 15 October in your diary.
Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day on their own blogs with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. Blog [...]

I’ve always said there’s very little you can’t teach via videoconference & I think this is a great example of that….

There’s no website, but if you’d like to learn more about the program you can download the PDF flyer here.
So of you’re thinking there’s something you can’t do via videoconference – think again!

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You can connect a number of sites if you need to hold a meeting or class between people in many different locations – called a multipoint. It is technically possible to connect hundreds of sites, but not practical to do so. Multipoint videoconferences are usually a little more formal than point-to-point simply because of the [...]

Mars & Phobos [1680x1050] by TopTechWriter.US
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In a recent article in the EE Times, John Merchant thinks we could all visit Mars via telepresence technology. Here’s what he says in part:
We have not gone onto Mars because of the enormous difficulty and the enormous cost of a manned mission to that planet. However there is [...]

A number of people visiting this blog are fairly new to videoconferencing and looking for some basic information to get started. With this in mind I’ve started a new category: Basics. In this category I’ll be posting basic information about videoconferencing and how to get started.
Just choose ‘Basics‘ from the drop down category box in [...]

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