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December 04, 2006 - K20 Advisory Committee Meeting - Internet2 Fall Member Meeting

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*Attendees (*please add your name if we missed you! Thanks.)

Guido Aden,  AARNet
Bret Apthorpe, NY
Kika Barr, WI
Ruth Blankenbaker, IN
Kim Breuninger, PA
Heather Bruning, Internet2
Valentino Cavalli, TERENA
Brian Cort, CA
Bob Collie, TN
Dennis Drooger, MI 
Les Finken, IA
Louis Fox, WA
Bill Giddings, MO
Dan Gross, WI
Doug Heacock, KS
Don Kasprzak, WI
Steve Lanphear, WI
George Laskaris, NJ
David Lois, WI
Myron Lowe, MN
Tom Mara, WA
Connie Michener, WA
Charlie McMickle, NJ
Dave McDonald, GA
Jim Moran, Merit
Jennifer Oxenford, PA
Sheri Prupis, NJ
Dave Pokerney, FL
Kaica Reynolds, KS
Michael Rohwer, MI
Dana Rogers, OH
Pat Sine, DE
Tim Sizemore, KY
Len Steinbach, OH
Randy Stout, KS
Sandy Sprafka, ND
Rob Symberlist, United Kingdom
Dan Updegrove, TX
Rick Weingarten, DC
Heather Weisse, PA
James Werle, WA
Carol Willis, TX
Tonya Witherspoon, KS
Bob Wolffe, IL
Ann Zimmerman, OH

Discussion  (Morning videos coming - expected by 12/18/06)

Marketing & Communications Strategy

Internet2 Awareness
(Dan Gross, Greg Wood, and Don Kasprzak)

  • The group discussed the creation of an "awareness button" image that brands a SEGP organization as Internet2-enabled
  • Place button on organizations connected via the SEGP program.  The button will link to the I2 SEGP page with I2 information

  • TO DO:

Don and Dan will select 3 types of logos and have people pick which one they want.   Don and Dan will meet with Greg to talk about how to wrap this effort into the existing Internet2 marketing and communications efforts.  Once the designs have been finalized we will post them on the k20 website for download and distribution.

Marketing & Communications Strategy

One-Day Internet2 workshops 
(Dan Gross, Greg Wood, All)

  • Many SEGPS have found marketing success in hosting I2 days of various shapes and sizes across the country.  How can we leverage the lessons learned in planning and hosting these events and share with the rest of the community?

  • TO DO: 

All those who have hosted events will send their agendas, speakers, technology used, budgets, website links, etc. to James and Louis for posting on the K20 website.

Reinventing the K20 Meeting  

  •  The bi-annual K20 meeting has evolved into a mini-conference itself.  How could we capitalize on this and open to a wider audience?  Where should this event be held?  As part of another existing conference?  Who should participate?  How will the meeting be structured?  Who will plan and pay for it?

  • TO DO: 

 A working group consisting of the following people has been formed to pursue this idea.  The team will convene itself and report at the Spring Internet2 Member Meeting gathering in DC.
Jennifer and Ruthie have agreed to lead a "fact finding" group and will report their best thinking back to the Advisory Committee in April 2007 at the Spring Member Meeting in D.C.  Please add yourself to the list if we missed you.
Volunteers:
Tim Sizemore, KY Dept. of Education -  Tim.Sizemore@education.ky.gov
Kika Barr, WISCNet - barr@wiscnet.net
Sheri Prupis, NJEDGE.Net - Sheri.Prupis@NJEDGE.NET
Sandy Sprafka, North Dakota State University - sandy.sprafka@ndsu.edu
** Group Leader** Jennifer Oxenford, MAGPI - jmacdoug@isc.upenn.edu
Heather Weisse, MAGPI - hweisse@magpi.net
Dana Rogers, OARNet - dana@oar.net
Bill Giddings, MORENet - bgidding@more.net
Kim Breuninger, Chester County IU - kimb@cciu.org
Myron Lowe, University of Minnesota - mlowe@umn.edu
** Group Leader** Ruth Blankenbaker, CILC - rblanken@cilc.org

International Collaboration

Guest Speakers:
Valentino Cavalli, TERENA, cavalli@terena.org
  [PPT presentation]

  • TERENA does not run a network or connect organizations.  It is more of a forum for promoting collaboration between institutions connected via NRENS.
  • Association of European Educational Networks.  Started in 2004
  • Workshops were run to identify the following:
    • Political : why should schools be connected via NRENs
    • Technical: what are the requirements to connect
    • Pedagogical: how could technology be used in schools?
  • London Workshop:
    1)White paper discussing pros and cons of connecting schools to NRENs
    - economy of scale
    - synergy with research networks
    - benefit of centralized management: technical support

         2)VISIT - Videoconferencing in School Initiatives
         - CPF issues last year

  • Survey is being conducted all over Europe to find out who is connected
  • EARNEST Survey tries to understand how the situation in schools are in relation to NRENs
    How schools are connected, what the networks is used for, teaching versus administration, security issues, email to teachers and/or pupils, who provides technical support.
  • Technical Areas TERENA is interested in exploring
    - provide documentation about NRENs
    - best practices on how schools connect to NRENs
    - list of applications that schools use
    - what sites to block
  • All of the literature cited above is available at http://wiki.terena.nl and http://www.terena.nl/activities/schools 
  • Louis Invited both Valentino and Robert to officially join the K20 Advisory Committee group.
  • TO DO:  James and Jennifer will follow up with Valentino about a possible collaboration on the K20 Online Communities project. 

Robert Symberlist, UKERNA [PPT presentation]

SEGP Structure & Governance Survey (Louis, All)

 For SEGPs that have not competed the survey, please visit the survey url below.    
Survey URL: (note: Apple users please copy and paste the complete URL into your browser)https://catalysttools.washington.edu/survey/?sid=29189&owner=jwerle

Guest Speaker: Ken Klingenstein, Internet2 - Middleware Update (Video)

  • UK has created the world's largest federation using Shibboleth embracing both higher ed and k12.  Their federating agency is UKERNA, a quasi governmental national networking organization .  15-20 other countries have a vibrant federation. 
  • The US has about 40 members of its federation. 
  • What is it being used for?  In UK, primary use is access control.  They have a national bulk purchasing of content model.  Shibboleth works very well in this environment.  local authentication with privacy shields to get to content.  This is not a strategy that has percolated through the US system, nor is it likely to evolve in this way given the fragmented governance structure of the education system.
  • US federal applications are coming online.  Three production campuses - University of Washington, Penn State, Stanford - are rolling out a system that allows researchers to access the Federal FastLane grant submission system.
  • There are 95 other federal applications that will be federated - student loan application process for example. 
  • A number of commercial content providers are plumbing their content with federated identify structures.  Instant messaging applications, wiki.  Ken is working with Google and Microsoft on a number of applications.  Speaking with Polycom - videoconferencing applications will soon be federated.
  • Integrating federations into K-12 environment in US will require someone to come up with a few classic deployment strategies.  K12 will need to create a set of normative identities that will coordinate with content providers.  Federation will ideally need to be done at the state level with authentication at the local school level.   

  • TO DO: 

Randy Stout will email the K20 list asking for volunteers to help lead a K20 Middleware effort within the K20 Initiative. 

Guest Speaker: Laurie Burns, Internet2 - Internet2 membership Update (Video)

  • Membership - Internet2 is 10 years old.  There has been a lot of changes in the community.  The membership and governance structure needs to change along with the community.  It has become very unwieldy and difficult to explain. The NEtwork Planning and Collaboration Council has been tasked with evolving the membership and governance structure - ideas that have emerged involve creating ways for non-member organizations who want more formal recognition to fit more comfortably within the membership structure.  NetPAC thinking about more of a tiered model to membership with membership fees being based in part upon the total research budget of the institution.   
  • If anyone would like to read and comment on recent Internet2 Governance Report please visit the following wiki page.
    https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/I2GovNom/Home

Internet2 SEGP Program 5-year Anniversary Panel - Where have we been, where are we going?

o    K12 - Bill Giddings, MO SEGP activities (first video segment)
   -  eMints program encourages use of the applications to enhance achievement
   -  bandwidth demands - 5 years ago, Bill had a hard time convincing superintendents there was a need for more than a 500 baud modem. 
   - Today 77% of districts were holding back because they were concerned about bandwidth.
   - Teacher's concerns revolve around how to meet performance standards.  Bill is always looking for compelling content that will help teachers motivate teachers - Video conferencing is a key application.
   - Streaming university events to k12.  Truman library is offering the white house decision center over video conference.   Symposium on democracy event around Churchhill's "iron curtain" speech.
   - The teachers don't have time to worry about the technology.  They want content and will use it if it works.
o    Museums - Len Steinbach, Cleveland Museum of Art
  -  First experience with I2 was a webcast about 5 years ago at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Telemedicine for Pottery - connected with the Louvre in Paris as an experiment around international curator collaboration directory over the advanced networks.
  - Megaconference Jr.  - exploring what can be done with VC based education and collaboration.  CMA has the largest distance learning program in the US.  
  - Making the technology transparent is the ultimate goal.
  - Particularly interested in the role of "telepresence".  Brought patrons to the Bob Ballard's Titanic re-discovery event then built a art display component available.
Challenges - 
   -5 years ago robust broadband was only really only readily available over i2.  Today people can do so much more over the commercially available internet
   - Now that bandwidth is more available via the commercial internet, I2s role has changed as an organization that can help the museum community understand what is possible in the future and fostering collaboration.  I2 will be very important for exploring virtual worlds.
  - The nexus of museums and K20 Initiative is the classroom.  Last mile issues remain to getting museum content to the classroom. 
  - The last two organizations that have high degree of trust is the library and museum community. 
  - Have kids in 2 libraries and a museum participating in the poetry slams.  Students go to libraries to then go to museums through virtual visits.  Collaborating with librarians around the art of story telling.
Lessons -
  - Had a naïve sense that the great museums of this country were the places to percolate great new ideas.  They are not the place.   The playground is at smaller more innovative museum organizations on I2 campuses. Demonstration places may not be the larger established museum organizations.
  - I2 should not be viewing the museum in the same way as a school or a university.  Museums are content providers.  I2 should not charge them for this service.
o    Streaming Media - Tom Mara, KEXP (second video segment)
   - Began in 1972 as a ten watt radio station. 

   - Experimented throughout the years before settling on a variety mix format.   - 1999 the UW moved the KEXP station into the computing department. Paul Allen provided additional funding - increased staffing from 2 to 20.  Moved buildings and installed a state of the art live performance space.
    - Vision is to enrich people's lives.  Help the audience to learn about new music you might not hear.
   - Technologically, this mission is forwarded by connecting world class tech people at the UW with the DJ.   Outcomes have been a number of firsts:
       - launched in 2000 - uncompressed streaming audio.  Cell stream, full song podcasts, 14 day real time streaming archive, real time playlist.  live studio performances are archived on the website. 
       - Looking for ways to partner with librarians.   KEXP is looking for ways to help listeners learn more about the artists they are listening to.
       - KEXP sociology -  looking at ways to create communities to allow listeners to connect and learn more
o    Libraries - Rick Weingarten, ALA
    - Rick's mission is to Look out at the technical horizon and help libraries see where libraries can go.
    - 4 reasons why libraries haven't engaged I2

        1) no killer application has been identified
        2) no central guiding force - state libraries are weak political bodies. 
         3) ½ of libraries in the US are 1 room buildings, poorly funded, volunteer organizations lacking technical support or expertise in-house.
        4) make materials free to anyone in the country.  Make information available to the riff raff.
    - Potential I2 killer applications -  VC, next generation downloads of music, films]
    - there is an exponentially growing collection of digital media. 

    - Libraries are also starting to create digital collections.

    - Library services are beginning to strain the technical resources - beginning to providing wireless connections, etc.
    - Gates Foundation wired the United States libraries between 1999-2002.  BMGF is moving into even more public libraries addressing the equity gap in bandwidth available between rural and urban libraries. 

    - ALA is doing a BMGF funded study on state of connectivity, barriers to connectivity, and options for intervention that create permanent change for the better. 

    - Connectivity is the first step.  Curating, digitization etc. all need to be addressed after connectivity is established.

E-Science Applications Panel (Video)*

o    Tim Sizemore, Kentucky Department of Education on the "Southern Skies in the Classroom" project [PPT presentation]
        - Remotely operated telescopes in Australia and in Kentucky
        - Linked by Internet2
        - Offers hands-on discovery and exploration to K-12 and to University students
        - Telescopes in operation Fall 2006
        - First class use Spring 2007

o    Dr. Steve Senger, University of Wisconsin - LaCrosse on Immersive Segmentation (PPT Presentation]
    - Using the network to access simulations, to connect to remote anatomical image sets, and  create a collaboration space
    - Funded by Medicine Library
o    Josh Mogerman Todd Oakley, Brookfield Zoo on the "Every Student is a Scientist" program PPT Presentation
    - Program allows students to observe primate population and record their behavior (including students with disabilities)
    - wonders of our wetlands: immersion exhibit, a tour, educational game-like components. Little data entry
    - Return of the Wolves: scavenger hunt, students gather information
    - Students can walk around the exhibits using a wireless enabled tablet PC to record and enrich their learning experiences.
o    Carmen Agular and Russell Cuhl, Univ of Wisconsin on the WATER Institute
  - Local people studying local problems and get people in the local community learning about them
  - Provides incentives for inner cities kids to finish high school
  - voting public, if they understand the science they will understand the issues
  - Students and the public get to collect data! Doing real science while working with kids and the teachers
  - remote connection 14 miles off coast on Lake Erie.   collaboration with Milwaukee Pub Schools.  Delievering education programs right from the deck of a research vessel.
o   Gwen Jacobs, Montana State University  [PPT presentation]
  - TeraGrid
  - Big e-science

  - The LARIAT Networking Project - 10 million dollar project
  - Upgrade internet connectivity for rural west (Wyoming, Montana, Alaska, etc)
  to help:
     - access remote instruments in other places
     - access to super computers
    - access to research sites (national resources)

  - TeraGrid
     - Promote integration of NSF cyberinfrastructure
     - Opportunity to engage more and more institutions on this project.

  - BIRN Project
    - take advantage of tech and scientific expertise and promote collaboration among them
     - Database needs to be develop to catalog all the information - this has been an interesting challenge

Vito Amato, Cisco Systems (Video)*  *\ PPT presentation

  o    Review of a recent literature evaluation on the effectiveness of technology in schools http://www.cisco.com/web/strategy/docs/education/TechnologyinSchoolsReport.pdf

Guest Speaker:  Fred Winter, National Endowment for the Humanities (Video) 

  • 140 million dollars is available each year.  A new Digital Humanities Initiative started last spring.  4 funding opportunities are available.
  • Digital humanities fellowships - 40K per individual or 80K for a team of 2 researchers.   Advance knowledge and research in the field of digital initiative
    • Start Up Grants -  blue sky projects, projects that begin a new effort.
    • Workshops -  designed to train teachers on single campuses, distance education, or both.  30K per institution to look at how digital resources are best used in education
    • Challenge grants - endowments for strengthening technical infrastructure.  Grants range from 30K to 1 million. 
  • NEH is still open to comments that will shape these funding grants.

  • TO DO:

  If you would like more information on the grants please contact Fred Winter (202) 606-8287/8309 fwinter@neh.gov
More information is online http://www.neh.gov

Marketing & Communications Strategy (Video included in NEH segment)

Regionalization of the K20 Website (James, Jennifer)

  • Collaboration between James and Jennifer Oxenford and her team at MAGPI.  Plan is to release the beta version at the Spring Meeting
  • Goal is to create a new K20 web presence that is rich with web 2.0 functionality, leveraging the community to contribute content.
  • SEGP states or regions will be able create and administer their own site.  Content can be shared across sites.  

  • TO DO: 

If you are interested in joining this effort contact James or Jennifer.  Also have a look at the project development wiki space for more information

Partner Updates (Video included in NEH segment)

  • Teaching & Learning (Jennifer)
    - working on a Internet2 course for educators.  Helping to establish a "nettern" project for students to get more involved in Internet2 applications and activities.
    see the Teaching and Learning wiki for update on activities of the group. https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/TLSIG/Home
     
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