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Featured
Sponsor |
"Celebrating
the success of children and youth with exceptional
learning needs."
The world's largest convention devoted to special
and gifted education.
April 9-12, 2003! |
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TVWorldwide.com,
a fast-growing web-based global TV network and streaming
video service provider, announced that it had been selected
by the Council for Exceptional Children to webcast the April
11-12, 2003 show live from Seattle, Washington. Special
events featured by the Yes I Can! Foundation for Exceptional
Children will also be covered. The free webcast at www.AT508.com
and www.tvworldwide.com
will feature interviews with industry leaders present for
the show and highlight the latest products, services, issues
and news concerning those who work with students with special
needs. TVWorldwide’s AT508.com Internet TV channel
was launched in October at the World Congress on Disabilities
in Orlando, Fla, featuring world-renowned disability columnist
John Williams covering the latest in assistive technology
and Section 508 news and since then has webcast the TASH,
ATIA and CSUN events for the community of people with disabilities.
AT508.com will feature keynotes, presentations and interviews
with exhibitors and speakers during the CEC webcast. The
event will be archived in fully accessible format using
the captioned video streaming of TVWorldwide.com’s
“webcaptingsm” process. Webcast and AT508.com
sponsors include The Paciello Group, Keybowl, HP, Kurzweil
Educatonal Systems, Deque, Audio Eye, Sighted Electronics
and Vcom3D.
As
part of the webcast, the following Yes I Can! events will
be recorded live to tape and archived for later viewing
during the webcast.
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three major events to be covered for later streaming
and archiving are as follows: |
| Event |
Date |
Time |
Place |
| The
Yes I Can! Awards |
April
11th |
4:30pm |
Washington
State Convention Center, room 6A |
| The
Yes I Can! Award Reception Following the Awards |
April
11th |
5:30 |
Washington
State Convention Center,
Room 604 |
| The
Teacher of the Year Luncheon and Awards |
April
12 |
11:30
- 1:30 |
West
Ballroom of the Washington Sheraton |
Visitors to the live CEC
webcast will be able to post questions to interviewees and
participate in Q&A via e-mail, providing a fully interactive
forum for sharing of information.
“As a long-time advocate
of streaming media for those with disabilities through our
AbleTV.net Internet TV channel, we are excited about being
selected to webcast the important CEC event,” commented
Dave Gardy, Chairman and CEO of TVWorldwide.com. “This
is also a great venue to again feature our new Internet
TV channel, AT508.com, featuring the incisive and uncensored
text and video commentary of highly-respected columnist
John Williams who, himself, coined the phrase ‘assistive
technology’. He has a huge audience and we are preparing
our servers to accommodate it as we build AT508.com.”
The
event will be archived for viewing at www.tvworldwide.com
and www.AT508.com.
Participants should have the free Real Video Player installed
prior to the event and should log on by 4:15 PM PST on Friday,
April 11.
About TVWorldwide.com
As a leading streaming video applications service provider,
TVWorldwide.com is developing a network of video channels
that is an affiliation of community-based Internet television
stations, each underwritten by a strategic partner, "aimcastingsm"
to targeted B2B and special interest demographic audiences
worldwide. TVWorldwide.com works with strategic partners
to develop the latest in live and archived state-of-the
art video streaming content applications. TVWorldwide.com
was recently named one of the streaming video industry’s
“Hottest Streaming Companies” by Streaming Magazine,
www.streamingmagazine.com.
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