Last months, the Database section of The Bangkok Post (see reference below) presented the first part of the Inter-Cultural Communication for Classrooms project which is run by the Thai Computational Linguistics Laboratory. In this project, students in two classrooms (one from Thailand and one from Japan) talked to each other, in real time, through the use of internet and a software that translated what the students said.
During the videoconference, only lower thinking skills occurred, the students being unable to engage in activities that stimulated higher thinking skills (due to time and technological restraints). It is a perfect example of synchronous videoconferencing, but the future success of the program depends on the technological part of the equation.
Boonruang, Sasiwimon. “Bridging cultures.” Bangkok Post (February 27, 2008). Last accessed March 3, 2008, from here .
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