| Title: | Presenting on Both Sides of the Atlantic -- Simultaneously |
| Meeting: | 2005 AAPT Winter Meeting: Albuquerque, NM |
| Location: | Cochiti |
| Date: | Monday, Jan. 10 |
| Time: | 2:30 p.m. |
| Author: |
S. Raj Chaudhury, Norfolk
State Univ. 757-823-2241, schaudhury@nsu.edu |
| Co-Author(s): | N. Sanjay Rebello, Dean A. Zollman |
| Abstract: | In the summer of 2002 a rare opportunity occurred when AAPT and Groupe International de Recherche sur l'Enseignement de la Physique (GIREP) held their meetings simultaneously (in Boise, ID & Lund, Sweden). Faculty involved in the The International Bicycle Project (http://www.science.uva.nl/research/amstel/bicycle/) decided to present a single talk at both meetings. Presenting this talk involved having some of the project's members at each meeting site. These presenters were connected through the Internet and used standard readily available software to deliver the talk. PowerPoint was used for visuals while Microsoft NetMeeting (a freeware program) enabled the participants at each location to see and hear their counterparts on the opposite side of the Atlantic. The hardware included only standard laptop computers and webcams. The presentation occurred with only minor glitches and demonstrated that such joint talks can be done with relative ease. |
| Footnotes: | None |