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Going Further

Video Teleconferencing | Multimedia Players | Going Further

Besides Microsoft's NetMeeting there are other videoconferencing programs available. Some of these are

• Ivisit - developed by the same people who developed CU-SeeMe, this program can run audio and video over phone lines.

• Iris Phone - allows you transmit and receive audio and still pictures (the number of frames per second depends on your connection speed)

• ICUII - has an interface similar to CU-SeeMe.

CU-SeeMe now exists as commercial software, rather than as freeware. You can see the kind of impact its use has had on videoconferencing on the web by visiting some of the sites that have been set up for CU-SeeMe users. But keep in mind that some of these may not be age appropriate, so be sure to check the sites before attempting to demonstrate them to others.

Educational Video Sites

There are several sites that stream educational video. Some examples are listed below. Once you have a multimedia player, you can check if these sites have material you will find useful in the classroom.

• NASA TV on the Web -- http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/ntvweb.html, a list of sites that have NASA related video feeds.

• For current events, visit the multimedia section of CNN. Extensive video broadcasts of the news are available daily.

• The speech archives at The History Channel.