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WELCOME TO the future. Fromme elementary school teacher Ingrid Herschmiiler, along with Courtney and Kyle Calis, converse with teachers and students in Syracuse, Indiana, by way of video conferencing. North Vancouver-based EyeTe! has developed the technology.

A NORTH Vancouver-based com- pany is making inroads in furthering the linkage between computers and two-way video communication.

EyeTel Communications Inc. dis- played its technology in action last month with a video-confer- encing session between a teacher from Fromme ele- mentary school in North Vancouver and a teacher from Syracuse, Indiana. The - teachers discussed a curricu- lum for their Grade 4 students.

EyeTel president and CEO pre- dicts that the question ““What’s your video number?” will soon be as familiar as this one: “What's your fax number?”

EyeTel began in 1987 as the dis-

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tributor of a Finnish-made full-color video telephone. it didn’t sell well. EyeTe! has moved on to market desktop systems built for Microsoft Windows environment. The Communicator I software

package allows interactive transmis- sion of text and graphic files by way of modem.

Communicator If combines soft- ware and hardware to transmit video stills, graphics and text files.

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a motion video. Contact EyeTel at 984-2522 or by fax at 984-3566. A GRADE 4-5 class at Westover community school is travelling the communication highway. Writes teacher Tony Hassard, Project Telstar direc-

a> tor, “Mr. Hassard’s class is

now in the process of travel-

ling with Internet technology.

Mr. Hassard has been able to

provide 38 electronic stops throughout the world.

“Contacts have also been made with six schools in Iceland. As of Oct. 27 we have contact with Russia and Project Pangaea, which was designed by Olga Narvskaya, an 11- year-old girl in St. Petersburg.”

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