RE: [DDN] Virtual conferences

2005-09-21 Thread John Hibbs
I'm exceptionally proud that our teeny, weeny non-profit has held eight Global Learn Day events, one each year since 1996. GLD, a non stop 24 hour event, opens in the South Pacific and travels west to Hawaii, the long way around. We make stops in eight major regions where we feature

Re: [DDN] Virtual conferences

2005-09-19 Thread Dave Pentecost
: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 07:51:01 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DDN] Virtual conferences At 3:26 PM -0500 9/15/05, Taran Rampersad wrote: John Hibbs wrote: Why is an ICT conference not held virtually? Why do I have to travel to Washington to participate? or listen? or view? What century

RE: [DDN] Virtual conferences

2005-09-19 Thread Ronda Evans
RE: Virtual Conferences,Keeping Track of Technology Accomplishments On Line, and funding for Homeless. In 1998-99 MIT but together youth from 36 countries with 16 different languages to talk about World Problems, they called it the Junior Summit. Please take a look at the success of this

Re: [DDN] Virtual conferences

2005-09-19 Thread Brenda Kempster
: 760 674- 8937 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.kempstergroup.com www.ictliteracy.info - Original Message - From: John Hibbs To: The Digital Divide Network discussiongroup Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 7:51 AM Subject: [DDN] Virtual conferences At 3:26 PM -0500 9/15/05, Taran

Re: [DDN] Virtual conferences

2005-09-18 Thread Cindy Lemcke-Hoong
John and All, In 1990, about 14 years ago, I was researching for a paper on video-conferencing. To my surprised, the problem why video-conferencing was not popular, then, had nothing to do with the technology, nor the services provided by the phone companies etc. (It was still rather expensive

Re: [DDN] Virtual conferences

2005-09-18 Thread Laura Czerniewicz
In response to John Gibbs comment about virtual conference members of this list might be interested in our experiences of hosting e/merge 2004, an online conference about educational technology in Southern Africa. We had 163 participants from 7 southern Africa countries, as well as some key people

RE: [DDN] Virtual conferences

2005-09-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hibbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 07:51:01 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DDN] Virtual conferences At 3:26 PM -0500 9/15/05, Taran Rampersad wrote: John Hibbs wrote: Why is an ICT conference not held virtually? Why do I have to travel to Washington to participate? or listen

[DDN] Virtual conferences

2005-09-17 Thread John Hibbs
At 3:26 PM -0500 9/15/05, Taran Rampersad wrote: John Hibbs wrote: Why is an ICT conference not held virtually? Why do I have to travel to Washington to participate? or listen? or view? What century do we live in? 15 Sep 2005 15:26:11 -0500 Taran Rampersad [EMAIL PROTECTED] So that's where I