K20 Planning Retreat Executive Summary
Location: Museum of the Rockies - Bozeman, Montana
Date: August 19-20, 2010
The K20 Advisory Committee gathered in Bozeman, MT from the evening of Wednesday, August 18 to noon on Friday August 20, 2010. The purpose of the meeting was to define a set of priority work themes and create a road map for achieving them that leverages our collective efforts.
FINAL AGENDA
FULL MEETING NOTES
Participants:
- Carol Willis - Texas Education Telecommunications Network, carol.willis@esc13.txed.net
- Bob Collie - ENA, bcollie@ena.com
- Kaye Howe - National Science Foundation Digital Library, kaye@ucar.edu
- Kim Owen - North Dakota State University, kim.owen@ndsu.edu
- Kim Breuninger - Chester County Intermediate Unit (CCIU), KimB@cciu.org
- Catherine McKenzie - California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office, cmckenzie@cccco.edu
- David Underwood - Arkansas Tech University (ARE-ON), dunderwood@atu.edu
- Ruth Blankenbaker - Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC), rblanken@cilc.org
- Kemi Jona - Office of STEM education Partnerships - Northwestern University, kjona@northwestern.edu
- Denise Shorey - Centennial BOCES (Board of Cooperative Educational Services), dshorey@cboces.org
- Marla Davenport - TIES, Marla.Davenport@ties.k12.mn.us
- Larry Gallery - NYSERnet, lgallery@nysernet.org
- Sherilyn Evans - CENIC, sevans@cenic.org
- Randy Stout - KanREN, rstout@ksbor.org
- Myron Lowe - University of Minnesota, mlowe@umn.edu
- Heather Todorov - Internet2, heather2@internet2.edu
- Ann Zimmerman - OARnet, annz@oar.net
- Stephanie Couch - CENIC, scouch@cenic.org
- Keith Kreuger - COSN, keith@cosn.org
- Steve Smith - University of Alaska System Office, steve.smith@alaska.edu
- Hilary Goldman - ISTE, hgoldmann@iste.org
- John Pederson - WISCnet, johnpederson@wiscnet.net
- Perry Movick - Centennial BOCES (Board of Cooperative Educational Services), pmovick@cboces.org
- Louis Fox, Internet2, lfox@internet2.edu
- James Werle, Internet2, jwerle@internet2.edu
Brief History of the Internet2 K20 Initiative (Louis)
- How we got to where we are today? Why organized the way we are. Want to do real work and lay out a real plan while we're here. Louis has been with K20 Initiative since its inception 10 years ago; worked with Tom West. SEGP program came about early on. Instantiation of RONs... connecting schools, museums, and RONs. Internet2 developed the 'SEGP' sponsorship program. Lots of states wanted to connect. Developed 'whole state network' (SEGP) model. 6-15 networks connected quickly. CIOs unsure about program initially.
- Louis traveled around the U.S. and talked to folks in government, foundations, etc. Was clear that diverse K20 community needed a way to gather and interact with the research community. The K20 Initiative was born. Goal not to dictate what was most important to the group; rather, enable self-directed agenda setting where multi-faceted group could thrive.
- Ours is a complex endeavor. We hope to surface important themes and come up with a working plan; who will take leadership; milestones? How will we resource these activities?
- For me (Louis), a watershed moment. James has come on to be the new director of the K20 Initiative. Louis is stepping down/back - time committed over the next year to help in whatever way needed.
Top 5 Themes for the K20 Initiative over the next year
- Below are the 5 priority themes that emerge from our discussions. It will be up to each of these teams to work through specifics of resources (and resource development), leadership, participants, timeline, deliverables, and assessment. Teams should be prepared to report progress to the Advisory Committee at regular intervals (quarterly conference calls and Internet2 Member Meetings). Please let James jwerle@internet2.edu or Carol carol.willis@esc13.txed.net know if you need any assistance in coordinating the work.
- For those who were unable to attend the meeting in Bozeman, please feel free to send comments on these themes as well as indicate your interest in contributing.
- U.S. UCAN
- Goal: Play a leadership role in helping shape the development of US UCAN
- Next Steps: Develop a brief K20 Initiative position paper and share it with the Internet2 leadership. This needs to be done in fairly short order as things are moving very quickly and its essential we add our collective voice to this important conversation.
- Participants: Louis Fox (lead), everyone at the workshop raised their hand.
- Strategic Partnerships
- Goal: Develop closer working relationships key strategic partners such as COSN, ISTE, STATEnets, the Quilt, and the American Library Association.
- Participants: Carol (lead), Marla, Ruth, Hillary, Kim O.
- Remote Instrumentation
- Goal: Develop Remote instrumentation as a use case for the educational utility of Internet2.
- Participants: Kemi Jona (lead), James Werle (lead), Kim O, Kim B, Kaye Howe, Ruth, Ann, and Marla
- Federated ID Management
- Goal: Raise awareness of what Federated Identity management means to our various communities.
- Participants: Keith Krueger (lead), Randy Stout (lead), Kim O, Kim B, Kaye Howe, Ruth, Ann, and Marla
- Next Steps: 1) Develop use cases starting with the K-12 community. 2) Gather existing resources to develop the necessary materials for the "education campaign", 3) Put together a concise business case that defines problem and presents possible solutions
- Communications & Broadband Mapping
- Goal: Strengthen our ability to connect people and communicate innovative activities involving the use of advanced networking across K-20 at the local, regional, national, and international level. Additionally, this team will coordinate the mapping of broadband availability in K-20 institutions, including identifying key statistics and broadband benchmarks that are critical to tracking progress.
- Participants: James Werle (lead), Dave Underwood, Steve Smith, Denise Shorey, Heather Wells, Sherilyn Evans