A Kids Party through Internet
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 Prachniwet 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 Prachniwet 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.