About 4 weeks ago we activated the jabber server on one of our OS-X servers. This is a technology that provides video and audio chat on the Macintosh platform. I have used this technology successfully to connect from Beijing to Hanover NH, from Beijing to Berlin, Germany. We have also used this technology to conference simultaneously from here with Brown and Columbia University using a split screen. The technology currently allows up to 4 different sites to be connected. Just last week we used a classroom with projection here to conference with an office at MIT. The only equipment here was an iSight camera camera connected to the computer in this classroom and a Mac laptop in the office at MIT. Jabber services are free - no need for a yahoo, .mac, Skype, or AOL account. The potential for this technology is enormous. It even works on wireless networks. And it is very simple to set up. Otmar Foelsche -- ********************************************************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar K. Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) **********************************************************************************