Collaboration SIG Fall 2006 Chicago
Fall 2006 Internet2 Member Meeting in Chicago, IL
Tuesday, December 5, 2006 CC21A/B
24 people attended
Welcome and Introduction: Gurcharan Khanna, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Mission Statement
- Case studies of collaborations
- Barriers to collaboration efforts
- Inability to successfully meet virtually in between face to face meetings
- Created Interactive Collaborative Technologies Lab at RIT for teaching & learning, research & development, practical implementation, analysis.
- Joined NYSGrid to create collaborative infrastructure for shared, pooled resources
Magic Minute for each attendee
Presentations: four in person, one unable to make it here from Brazil
- Parvati Dev and Margaret Krebs, Stanford University
Online Global Workshop: Panel on Simulation & Game-based Learning Research
Marratech: good audio features; chat used by viewers; with Kevin Smith (CSRO, Australia)
- Anibal Vega-Montijo, University of Puerto Rico Remote NCBI Mini-Courses
UltraVNC able to render CN3D program; scripted to allow easy selection of student desktops
- Joe Geigel, Rochester Institute of Technology
Theatrical Collaboration over the Internet
Virtual Theatre; Art and Technology collaboration; create shared virtual experience using 3D objects; collaboration levels: 1) technical (artists and technologists; 2) artistic (performers and audiences); 3) educational; used motion capture devices, data gloves, etc.; next goal: internet performance, 3D internet performance
- Greg Monaco, Great Plains Network: Update on Activities
21 universities in GPN; funds researchers who have concrete needs
- Jean Carlo Faustino & Graciela Martins, National Education and Research Network, Brazil
MCUs: A Comparative Analysis
(unable to attend in person)