THREE POMEGRANATE VIDEOCONFERENCES PHOTOTELEGRAPH n. Still image telegraph with which the likeness of an object is transmitted to a distant location with photographic accuracy, using electric signals, through wires or by radio. With the phototelegraph, it is possible to transmit the exact likenesses of hand-written manuscripts, drawings and photographs across distances. [Final entry in the "Malkhassian" Armenian dictionary - 1st edition, 1955]

On May 9^th, 1998 we implemented our first Internet videoconference between students in Yerevan, Los Angeles and Marseilles. This was the first ever Internet videoconference between Armenia and the rest of the world using live video in addition to voice, a "chat" session in Armenian, and a "whiteboard" for interactive drawing. This event was followed by two other 3PN videoconference sessions. Several weeks later, on May 31, the 3PN teacher from one of the participating schools in Yerevan joined the school’s principal and Justice Minister of Armenia David Harutyunyan in the second videoconference event. They connected to 3PN students in Los Angeles joined by an audience composed of the general public gathered for the AGBU Manoogian Demirdjian School annual festival. On June 28 it was the turn of the Sourp Hagop Armenian School in Montreal and the M. & H. Arslanian Djemaran and Yeghishe Manookian schools in Beirut to hold the third 3PN Internet Videoconference. During this final videoconference of the session the Montreal and Beirut nodes were joined by the Project coordinators from Los Angeles who participated in the multimedia exchanges with students and faculty.

Find out about:

> The first videoconference - Los Angeles . Marseilles . Yerevan
> The second videoconference - Los Angeles . Yerevan
> The third videoconference - Beirut . Montreal
> Videoconferencing in 3PN 1999