Ayane Discovering the World via Virtual Photo Walks

Ayane Discovering the World via Virtual Photo Walks
https://youtu.be/ElcZVOuNBeI

Support Virtual Photo Walks via ChangUr

To support and help Virtual Photo Walks via ChangUr,
Click this link http://bit.ly/1VD0xly    

www.virtualphotowalks.org

Giving the disabled and homebound a chance to 'hike' a volcano via Virtual Photo Walks

Giving the disabled and homebound a chance to 'hike' a volcano

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/giving-disabled-homebound-chance-hike-volcano/

Giving the disabled and homebound a chance to ‘hike’ a volcano via: www.virtualphotowalks.org

I am so glad to see the article by PBS NewsHour via: PBS on how Virtual Photo Walks has helped the disabled.
Looks like I may no longer be able to participate in Virtual Photo Walks, because CenturyLink DSL says that they can't fix my DSL problem.
My 3.0mbps CenturyLink DSL subscription should at least be giving me at least 1.50mbps, but I am getting less than 1.0mbps, sometimes even less than dial up speeds. So it isn't fast enough for a stable video connection. I have realized how reliant I am on a high speed internet connection for everything, especially since I am disabled. Those of us in the rural areas are really hard hit by either lack of availability of high speed internet service at all, or very poor service if they can get it.
If it can't be fixed, I just want to say that I have enjoyed my time as a participant, and as a helper. I loved seeing the places that I have never gotten to see in person, and probably
never will. I want to thank John Butterill for what he has done with Virtual Photo Walks.
Take care,
Jamie Todd
#VirtualPhotoWalks #VPW #CenturyLink #DSL #PBS #PBSNewsHour #Disabled #Disability #HomeBound #PhotoWalks #PBSNewsHour #PBS

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Virtual Photo Walks, using Video conferencing tools to help people be interactive citizens again. - Home

Virtual Photo Walks, using Video conferencing tools to help people be interactive citizens again. - Home:

Virtual Photo Walks: If you watch this 2 min movie Google made about Virtual Photo Walks you will see what we do, http://youtu.be/y1Uv7as5ZmI
Virtual Photo Walks (VPW) was founded in Canada by John Butterill, it is a charity that harnesses the power of the internet and mobile communications to enable the disabled infirm and those isolated and hospitalized – young and old – to visit distant places. Using Virtual volunteer guides equipped with a smart phone's the disabled can participate in immersive, real-time experiences of places they will likely never see first-hand an African safari, a war veterans’ reunion, a hike in the forest. Participants are connected via the internet in real-time via video and voice, they can interact with each other and their virtual photographer guide in the private video conference. It is secure and moderated. – an extraordinarily interactive moving experience. Please watch the movie on the virtualphotowalks.org  home page produced by Google to understand what we do.
If you know someone who would like to be included visit www.virtualphotowalks.org  and fill out the form.
If you know of a hospital you think would like to be included contact John Butterill.
We are a public charity 501c3 in the USA.
Walk the walk for those that can't

http://www.virtualphotowalks.org/



http://youtu.be/y1Uv7as5ZmI



http://www.twitter.com/thephotowalks

https://plus.google.com/+VirtualPhotoWalksTM/posts

https://www.facebook.com/VirtualPhotoWalks

http://www.youtube.com/virtualphotowalks

Virtual Photo Walks at the Parliamentary Library Ottawa Canada

Virtual Photo Walks at the Parliamentary Library Ottawa Canada

http://youtu.be/d2POmdHL7qk

Virtual Photo Walks at Kīlauea volcano’s Crater Rim Trail Hawaii

Virtual Photo Walks visited the Ontario Provincial Police Museum

http://youtu.be/3jbKGKdcrCk



www.virtualphotowalks.org

CenturyLink DSL

UPDATE: 5/24/2012:
So far, nothing has improved, in fact, it is worse. My current speed is at 0.86mbps here is the speed test: http://www.speedtest.net/result/1969011445.png
That last I have heard from CenturyLink DSL was that there is no way I could get 3.0mbps, my question to them was: "Then why have you been selling me that service since the summer of 2010, if you can't provide that speed?" There answer: silence. Before their silence, it was made clear to me that they were not happy with me complaining on Twitter.
I was advised by a few people to fight it, and to complain.Which I did this past weekend, with the FTC, FCC, BBB, and he Florida Dept. of Consumer Affairs.
Yesterday, I lost connection, and when it finally came back online, the speed was drastically lower.
Unfortunately, CenturyLink DSL is my only affordable choice right now.
My 14 year old stepson who has Aspergers' Syndrome loves the internet, and gets a lot of joy from watching youtube videos, and researching various interests cannot understand why he can't surf online like everybody else, no matter how much I've tried to explain it to him.



Since 2010, I've been paying for a 3.0mbps subscription to CenturyLink DSL ( formerly Embarq ).
I never got thos connection speeds, usually it was around 1.5mbps, and if I was lucky, I might get it almost up to 2.0mbps.
Being disabled, I rely heavily on the internet to do a lot of things. We are also cord or cable cutters, being that we can't afford
satelite TV or cable ( actually too far off the road for cable TV anyway ).
We are in a fringe area, which means we can't receive digital TV signals over the air with an outdoor antenna, so we could watch the local TV channels.
So we use our DSL to watch NetFlix, Hulu, and other streaming video programs on our Roku player.
I was getting frustrated with our problems with Hulu Plus, so I submitted a post to Twitter about it.
Hulu Plus confirmed that we need a 3.0mbps connection to get a decent feed of their videos.
CenturyLink @CenturyLinkHelp also replied saying they could help with my connection speed problems.
The technician came out yesterday, and ran some tests, and made a few tweaks, and said that we will
never get a 3.0mbps connection where we live ( even though I've been paying for that for almost 2 years now ).
He said in his opinion the best we could get is 1.5mbps , so he bumped it down from 3.0mbps and asked me to
test it out this weekend, and to let him know how it affects my connection on Monday.
So far, I can tell it is slower. I'm now getting about 1.36mbps connection speed, see my results from:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1948440806.png
I worry about how it is going to affect my participation with www.virtualphotowalks.com on Google Plus Hangouts.
My bandwidth may still be OK enough to participate, but time will tell. I may have to tell the tech to bump it
back up to 3.0mbps and take it as a loss.
My question is this: Why would CenturyLink willingly, and knowingly charge me for a 3.0mbps subscription, when I would only get 1.5mbps, or less?
What do I want? I want my 3.0.mbps connection that I have been paying for all along.
I have also been participating in the FCC SamKnows Broadband performance tracking at: http://www.testmyisp.com/

I've reached out for help at Twitter also: https://twitter.com/#!/wolfcrane/status/201994356465475585

Virtual Photo Walks™ - Google+

Virtual Photo Walks™ - Google+:

Virtual Photo Walks  We Walk the Walk for Those who Can't.

Virtual Photo Walks is a project to allow people with disability to be interactive citizens again. Through them, the disabled will be able to visit and interact with places and people they use to, as well as see things that, even enabled, they might not have had the chance to see.

It is a service for those who are hospitalized or cannot go out into the community, who are often forgotten. It is a way to lend a helping hand by providing a window to places and things most of us take for granted.

For the first time, the Google+ Hangout feature, combined with the Android, iPhone or other wireless smarts devices enables “virtual” photo walks. Photographers along with a camera can take their circle of friends along on a photo walk and share the experience with people who can't be there.

#HangoutsOnAir

Also, check out: http://www.google.com/intl/en/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html