October 2, 2000
Pinchas Zukerman and the National Arts Centre have partnered
with NRC, Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC),
CANARIE (Canada's Advanced Internet Development
Organization) and the Canada - Israel Industrial Research
and Development Foundation in exploratory application of
tomorrow's Internet for international learning.
On October 4, 2000, when the National Arts Centre Orchestra
is in the Middle East, Maestro Zukerman will lead "Dialog
Through Music", where Israeli, Palestinian, and Canadian
youth will share their emotional and creative responses to
Beethoven's famous melody "Ode to Joy" (from the Ninth
Symphony). Three groups of ten high school students will
connect by live video, with Israeli students and Maestro
Zukerman in Tel Aviv, Palestinian students in Jerusalem, and
Canadian students in Ottawa.
Maestro Zukerman's extensive experience with live video
violin teaching, and the potential for NAC to use broadband
learning technologies to build passion for the arts among
all Canadians, makes this partnership between Arts and
Sciences an exciting opportunity to explore our future.
High-speed connectivity for this project will be provided by
CA*net3, STAR TAP and the Internet 2 in Israel.
In a few years we will all be experiencing an improved
Internet based on new "broadband" technology. Basically,
broadband means that the physical network connections will
be carrying more information, and transporting it faster,
than today's Internet. These "fat pipes" will consist of
optical fibre cables or, alternatively, radio transmission
between fixed antenna and possibly satellites.
A few years ago, it was impossible to imagine today's
Internet. Similarly, we do not know what tomorrow's
broadband Internet will be like. Researchers at NRC, CRC and
CANARIE are exploring the broadband future. One focus of
this research is to help people learn together by being able
to see and talk to each other, across Canada and the world.
In research language, we are exploring tools for
"video-mediated communication" to facilitate "collaborative
learning." In plain language, this means is that we are
using broadband Internet's fat pipes to connect together
groups of people at several sites by live video, allowing
them to share and experience each others' knowledge and
ideas.
For more information on this item please visit the CANARIE CA*net 3 Optical
Internet program web site at http://www.canet3.net
Contact:
Martin.Brooks
Martin.Brooks@nrc.ca
