A Kids Party over Internet
    
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AIT took opportunity of AI3 satellite link to organise a video conference between Thailand and Japan elementary schools. |  |  
  
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On October 11,
2002, the Distributed Education Center (DEC) of the Asian Institute of Technology
(AIT) hosted a one-hour Kids Party through Internet for students from Minami-Kanon
Elementary School in Hiroshima, Japan, and a group of fifty students and teachers
from Prachaniwet School in Bangkok, Thailand. The party was carried through a
Video Conference, which is under the “Multimedia Communications in Elementary
Schools” project by Prof. Kaori Maeda, Hiroshima City University with the support
of Asian Internet Interconnection initiatives (AIII) project. The Party started
with students from both schools greeting each other via the television screen.
Minami-Kanon Elementary School introduced their students and demonstrated how
to make sushi by two students. During the Party, one of Prachaniwet student’s
mother was able to talk to her son who was spending a week at Minami-Kanon Elementary
school as an exchanged student and followed by question & answer sessions between
volunteers from both schools. The Party ended at around 01.00 p.m. It was the
first time for students from Minami-Kanon Elementary School and Prachaniwet School
to live interact through the Video Conference as a get-together party after they
have been a long-time partner and have exchanged their students.
