Researchers prepare to meet to travel to Deer Lake / Balmertown about ICTs
March 10, 2005 - 6:26am | by Anonymous
The Research in Information and Communication Technologies with Aboriginal Communities (RICTA) is inviting everyone to join them for their first meeting that is happening on Friday, March 11. The team is busy preparing for their three day event that will take them to Deer Lake First Nation and Balmertown / Red Lake. The full day Friday session involving people and First Nations from across Canada is planned to examine research and development opportunities in partnership with First Nations and academics. Click here to see the agenda for this event
Steps for getting connected into the Friday session ...
- Everyone can watch, listen and share their thoughts using a computer AND a high speed internet connection. This is being done using two programs being made available by Keewaytinook Okimakanak (K-Net). Each computer does require some plug-ins to be loaded so these programs are able to display all the information.
- The first program is called Breeze (produced by Macromedia). It allows meeting participants to watch the powerpoint presentations and chat on-line with other people who are also connecting to the meeting over their internet connection. Adam Fiser is managing the breeze presentation for this meeting. Everyone can connect to this on-line meeting at http://breeze.knet.ca/r29635251/
- The second program is a Video Streaming program (produced by Starbak) that will webcast the video conferencing portion of the meeting providing the picture and sound for the meeting. Everyone is invited to check out the short test session that took place on Tuesday at http://webcast.knet.ca/RICTA
- If people need HELP getting their computers set up then they are welcomed to call our helpdesk toll free at 877-737-KNET (5638) and ask for John or Jamie or Lars to walk through the steps of testing their machines so they can see the Breeze environment and the Webcast using the video streaming service.