Report on Ecological Reserve warden Garry Fletcher’s work with racerocks.com . June- December 2001
This past half year my focus has been on a number of areas related to the development of the racerocks.com site as an educational resource.
1. In June I had a student present a live webcast from us at Race Rocks at the AMTEC conference in Halifax.  At the same time we were demonstrating this technique to two representatives from APPLE computers Educational Staff, Keith Mitchell,Internet and NewMedia Technology, Apple Learning Interchange  from Texas and Jeff Orloff, Senior manager, Learning Products Education marketing and Solutions,  from the head office in California.
2. In the first two weeks of June, I again had two students staying out at Race Rocks presenting some live webcasts and working on the development of Quick time archived video and Quick Time Virtual reality  movies (see at) http://www.racerocks.com/racerock/archives/vrindex.htm
3. Development with Apple Learning Interchange of the Conference Room and The Discussion Forum for Race Rocks. In July, I worked with Keith Mitchell in the creation of these two interactive parts of the website. On the Meeting Room Conference site, we now are able to receive written questions from an audience and direct them around to different cameras while retaining the link with our mobile camera.  We used this with a presentation for a conference at South Western University in August.

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