JWPC WORLD SERVICES ADDS POETRY CORNER TO THE READING ROOM

[WORLD NEWSDESK]

On 26 January, 2000---just one day after placing the Reading Room on
the World Wide Web as part of Phase Two of its Worldwide Distance
Education Initiative, JWPC WORLD SERVICES posted the POET'S CORNER to
the World Wide Web.
THE POET'S CORNER, hosted by Peedy, an animated interactive Microsoft
Agent character created and copyrighted by Microsoft Corporation, takes
text input from the viewer and weaves the input into poetry written "on
the fly" onto a new web page appearing on the viewer's browser screen.
"We posted the READING ROOM to the Internet only the day before,"
stated J.W,Procopio, President of the Internet design firm which
created the site, "but we were criticized because we used a character
designed by a firm in France, which needs to be downloaded to the
client system from a website in France. Our critics claimed that the
download requirement might limit accessibility to our work. So we
created THE POET'S CORNER, using Peedy, a widely known and much more
easily accessible Microsoft Agent character, as a convenience to the
members of the Internet community."
The READING ROOM, deployed to the WEB on 25 January, 2000, employs
CLAUDE, an interactove conversational character created and copyrighted
by Cantoche Productions, a French design firm, to facilitate a reading
enrichment activity targeted toward elementary school children.
THE POET'S CORNER, with Peedy (Peedy the Poet) as host, offers a
similar experience with a poem, the shell of which was created and
copyrighted by JWPC WORLD SERVICES.
To view the website, viewers must be using Version 4.0 or better of
Microsoft Internet Explorer, with Microsoft Agent Core Components
installed on the viewer's computer system. The site's code also
requires that the viewer's browser be configured to enable ActiveX to
run in the viewer's browser.
"We're continuing to develop educational applications for this
technology over the World Wide Web," Mr. Procopio concluded, in an
exclusive interview with WORLDWIDE PUBLIC ADDRESS.
To view THE POET'S CORNER, viewers should go to:
http://www.jwpcworld.com/ReadingRoom/poet1.htm
For more information concerning distance education programs created by
JWPC WORLD SERVICES, viewers are encouraged to send email inquiries to:
lear...@jwpcworld.com

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