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K20 Advisory Committee Meeting - Conference Call

June 15, 2010

TIME:  (60 min)

  • 8:00 am Hawaiian
  • 11:00 am Pacific
  • 12:00 pm Mountain
  • 1:00 pm Central
  • 2:00 pm Eastern

ATTENDING

Carol Willis, Denise Shorey, Gerri Maglia, Ann Zimmerman, Mike Abbiatti, David Underwood, Al Lindel, Randy Stout, Renee Carver, Heather Todorov, Jeremiah Frink, Eric Nicklas, and Catherine McKenzie

AGENDA:

  • SEGP community engagement strategies  (Mike Abbiatti/David Underwood)
    • A SEGP has been established in Arkansas - AREON  - which is providing new networking capacity in the state.
    • AREON currently connects  the 11 state higher education institutions in Arkansas.  AREON would like to extend access to K-12 and 2-year colleges but state law currently precludes AREON from connecting to them.  K-12s must connect via a state agency which AREON is not.
    • AREON has a BTOP proposal in to fund the connection to 2 year colleges.
    • Mike and his colleaques are looking for compelling examples of how K20 organizations are utilizing bandwidth across the country to help make the case for extending access in Arkansas.  We have high speed bandwidth, ok so now what?
    • Caro Willis - where would you like to start? 
    • Mike - start with higher ed, find applications that are enabled by the SEGP.  Focus on higher edu classroom applications and any cross over applciations that would apply to K-12 (middleware apps are not high a priority at the moment) 
    • Randy Stout - we're developing a week long series of videoconferencing events in collaboration w/ national parks sites - helping kids learn why they are special in an engaging way.  Arkansas is most welcome to particpate in these events.  Little Rock desegregation and climate change are two topics.
    • There is a wiki and a regular planning calls in advance of these events.
    • James - mentioned several active working groups within the K20 Initiative that Arkansas may like to participate in as a way to plug in to what is happening - the remote instrumentation working group is one example.
    • ACTION ITEM - Randy will send Mike an email summarizing the current VC activities and info on how to get involved.
    • ACTION ITEM - If others would be interested in helping mentor folks in AK, send Mike an email letting him know.
  • Discuss post- Spring Member Meeting next steps

    • Issue

      Action Item

      ISTE

      Establish a working relationship with Hilary Goldmann.  e.g., serve as a resource when ISTE is asked about I2 matters and its impact on K12.
      Denise Shorey volunteered to lead this effort.

       

      Coordinate a meeting with ISTE's strategic initiatives director, Lynn Nolan, to explore how K20 and ISTE can work together.  K20 to collaborate with ISTE in developing standards for use and integration of R&E network resources in the K12 classroom. Include standards to be incorporated into NETS standards (for students, teachers and admins). Request adoption of these standards by ISTE.

      NSDL

      Research different solutions for identifying and tagging digital resources.  Talk with SEDL, ALA, multi-state solutions, ISTE, etc.  to determine if there is a standard that K20 wants to adopt for resources created by K20 projects.  Goal: make it simple for teachers. 

      Library of Congress (LoC)

      Meet with Judy Graves to learn about the Library's metadata research.  Report findings to K20 members.  Establish a close working relationship and maybe identify potential K20 collaborative projects with the Library of Congress. Does LoC now offer programs specifically for student audiences? In the past their work has targeted teacher professional development. Maybe K20 could request LoC consider adding some pilot student-focused events?

      StateNets

      Coordinate a f2f meeting between StateNets and K20 to explore ways to collaborate.
      Denise Shorey will also help work on this one - focusing collaboration around moving federated identity management forward in the K-12 realm - developing a primer on what's possible and defining what the next steps would be for a school district that hasn't done federation).

      Remote Instrumentation

      Continue to identify resources and research models of sharing with the K12 community.

       

      Develop a letter of support from I2 K20 for any university seeking grant funds for instruments that could be shared with K12.

       

      Research the possibility of developing a standard scheduling application that can be used by any entity offering remote instruments for the K12 community.  Schools would link to the I2 K20 site to register for use of an instrument.  Explore the issue of sustainability for these sites as they develop outreach programs (reference to current Remote Instrumentation activities)

      K20 Collaborations and national resources

      Research the possibility of connecting National Parks and US Forest Service sites.  Meet with the I2 pilot team that is working with the USFS to present short demonstrations that highlight work done for the pilot and to create interest among those who want to collaborate with these agencies

    • ACTION ITEMS - Please email Carol Willis if you would like to volunteer to work on one of these tasks.
  • MN/K20 middleware update (Stout/Davenport)
    • At last Internet2 MM Marla and Randy talked about identity management and the various services provided by inCommon.  TIES is working on a project to deploy content and applications via a portal.  Thinking about how fedeation and id and access managment factors in.
    • Marla/Randy hosted a call yesterday to hear how others across the country are using federated ID  management.  Tim Poe joined to talk about what is happening in NC.  Ann West shared an insightful set of recommendations on what TIES could do to learn more about deploying ID managment serives within their membership.  Shared the calendar of trainings and workshops avaialble.  John K. COO of inCommon also joined to think through a roadmap for participating in inCommon.
    • One outcome of the call was a useful set of action items for how TIES and inCommon could work more closely together.
    • ACTION ITEM - It was suggested we focus part of the afternoon business meeting at the upcoming Fall Internet2 member meeting in Atlanta on middleware adoption across K-20.  Carol would like to invite Claire Goldsmith to help introduce the topic of middleware. 
    • Its important to focus on defining immediate and longer term goals when considering middleware deployment.  Its easy to loose the big picture.
  • Summer K20 meeting planning
    • Where are we in 2010?  Where do we want to be in the next 3-4 years?
    • Everyone on the AC is welcome to join.  Starting evening of Wed 18 - Fri afternoon.  Logistics are TBD
    • Considering engaging a facilitator for this meeting.

2010 Advisory Committee Meeting Schedule

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