THE THIRD VIDEOCONFERENCE:
Completing the cycle

Now it was the turn of the 3PN Schools in Canada and Lebanon to connect live through the Net. It was nine in the morning in Montreal and four in the afternoon in Beirut when the students of the Sourp Hagop Armenian School came online to greet the 3PN coordinator in Los Angeles. Assisted by Hourig Attarian and with the technical help of Antranik Kababejian and Mher Karakashian, the Montreal students were ready to play the planned knowledge game on Armenian monuments and landmarks.

Montreal students greet their peers in Beirut

Within minutes they were joined by the M. & H. Arslanian Djemaran and Yeghishe Manookian students in Beirut, assisted by Jirayr Beujekian, the 3PN coordinator there. Soon photographs from Armenia were being displayed on the shared "whiteboard", locations were being circled on the dynamic map of Armenia, and questions and answers were being exchanged either orally through the voice and video link, or written in Armenian in the "chat" area. The videoconference ended (again, going past the planned schedule) with a free-for-all whiteboard drawing session, and general conversation.

Students pinpoint Amberd and other landmarks on the whiteboard

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