A multimedia system for tele-education in Secondary school

Last year we developed and tried out a system to allow students and teachers, distributed on the Net, to carry out learning/teaching activities. For this purpose we defined and implemented a new Internet protocol to support cooperative educational activities and then we developed a system based on it. We have recently experimented this system creating a virtual classroom with students and teachers from two secondary school classes, one in Palermo and the other in Pisa. In this paper we will describe the main considerations arising from this experience and the consequent new functionality that we are introducing into the system, to improve the quality and the opportunities for interaction.