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Purpose: To develop a series of Northern Virginia enterprise-sponsored webcasts to address the issue of Internet Ethics for the benefit of students in the Fairfax County Public School System. Based on the Mission of FCPS…..

The mission of Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) is to educate all students to meet high academic standards and to prepare all students for responsible citizenship in the 21st Century.

The intent of this endeavor is to use the Internet itself to create an interactive forum for discussion of important issues surrounding Internet ethics that can be archived for continual review. The series of webcasts would feature lectures, discussions, teachings and interviews involving some of the pre-eminent experts in the field from Northern Virginia, in addition to selected industry and government leaders interested in creating awareness among students concerning the importance of Cyber Ethics, especially in the environment we find ourselves in since September 11. This initiative would insure that the web site infrastructure, content management and multi-media configuration would offer adequate flexibility from the beginning to continually deploy the latest advances in community-based, live and archived interactive streaming media applications to make this on-line "Cyber Ethics Knowledge Archive" a truly unique and dynamic learning experience.

Webcast Date and Time: March 15, 2002, 10:30 AM (anticipated length 60-90 minutes)

Production Location: J.E.B Stuart High School Internet TV Studio

Corporate Charter Sponsors: Booz Allen Hamilton, Base Technologies, TVWorldwide.com

Panelists for the "CyberEthics 101" pilot webcast include:
Mr. Andrew Sherman, Partner, McDermott Will & Emery, Moderator
Dr. Belle Wheelan, State of Virginia Secretary of Education
Dr. Daniel Domenech, Superintendent, Fairfax County Public Schools
Mr. Sudhakar V. Shenoy, CEO, Information Management Consultants
Dr. Mel Riddile, Principal, J.E.B. Stuart High School
Mr. George Tillman, VP and CIO, Booz Allen Hamilton
Ms. Kristin Parker, Senior Principal, American Management Systems

Webcast Format: Town Meeting Style, based on, pre-determined CyberEthics subject matter categories (currently being finalized), with timed discussion periods led by moderator. The intent is to stimulate open forum discussion of key issues that should form the basis for a curriculum that will become the basis for follow-on interactive webcasts. Final format discussion categories and guidance will be provided in next status report on March 11.

Webcast studio audience participants: J.E.B Stuart High School students and faculty, interested parents, FCPS administrative representatives, invited press representatives, other invited guests from government, academia and industry

Webcast on-line audience participants: Students and Faculty of Fairfax County Public High Schools, parents, FCPS administrative representatives, representatives from government, academia and industry, press, all interested parties on the world wide web.

Interactive questions will be taken by on-line webcast participants via an e-mail link on the front page of the site. On-line participants should identify who they are and may submit any question which will be forwarded to the moderator for discussion.

To assist hearing disabled and learning impaired participants, the webcast will be captioned live using TVWorldwide.com's "webcapting" process that will feature open captioning of the discussion in the lower third of the video screen this will also facilitate the creation of a text transcript of the event for later review by participants.

After the event, the video will be compressed and archived and made available at the same URL for review by any interested party to review on-line with captioning for disabled viewers.

Webcast technical specifications:

MONITOR DISPLAY SETTINGS:
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For the most effective color display, we recommend that you set your display colors to "True Colors." This is located in the "Control Panel" and is accessed in the same way as the Monitor Display settings.
BROWSERS:
This site will function with most browser types and versions. However to receive the best quality experience and all multimedia elements Internet Explorer 5.x or Netscape 4.x are recommended.
REAL VIDEO:
Real Player must be installed on your computer to view the video on this site. Real Player is freely available from www.real.com. Scan the page for the word free to locate the free player, which is sufficient for viewing the video.
Webcast point of contacts: For webcast details as it relates to overall organization, participation and general questions: Ms. Courtney Bulger 703 246-3684. TVWorldwide.com is available to discuss technical questions at 703-961-9250, ext. 223 and for press info, ext. 223