oned at Camp Cook, in Iraq. Camp Cook's Freedom Calls Foundation Facility, the first of its kind in Iraq, offers service members free videoconferencing SO they can stay in touch with their families, and is made possible through private donations to the Freedom Calls Foundation. In addition, the foundation plans to install the videoconferencing capability at Army posts in the United States for families who do not have broadband Internet at home, and at military hospitals SO troops can interact with their newborn children and new moms hours after birth. John Harlow, executive director of the Freedom Calls Foundation, said, "Soldiers are now able to not only see, but participate in, milestone family events such as the birth of a new child, first communions, high school graduations, birthdays, weddings and anniversaries over the Freedom Calls Network." The facility opened to 12,000 soldiers at Camp Cook in June 2004. Ed Bukstel, director of operations for the Freedom Calls Foundation, said, "They can talk just like they would over the dinner table." Harlow adds, "Although families may be separated by war, they need not be estranged by it." DISTANCE LEARNING Tens of thousands of students receive an education with the aid of video communication. Distance learning is not a replacement for, but an extension of, classroom learning. In distance learning, instructors' roles may not change, but their potential audiences increase. Video communication allows for a more collaborative Video Communications: The Whole Picture classroom and for enhanced teaming outside of class. The success of distance learning correlates directly to a student's ability to assume responsibility for his own academic experience. Therefore, distance learning may be more promising for higher education than for primary education. Distance learning allows learning institutions to succeed regardless of location. The move to use video technology in education started in the 1950s, when the City Colleges of Chicago began using television to deliver for-credi