Post on 12-Jan-2016
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Engaging MN Students with Real
Time Learning Experiences Using
Internet2
Marla Davenport
TIES
Getting Started
• Background on Internet2
• Where we’ve been
• Where we’re heading
Internet2 Mission and Goals
• Internet2 Mission: Develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s Internet.
• Internet2 Goals • Enable new generation of applications• Re-create leading edge R&E network capability• Transfer technology and experience to the global
production Internet
Internet2’s National Network
How do we reach the backbone?
Extended Internet2 Network
Advanced Research and Education Networks Worldwide
Internet2 Capacity
56 kbpsISDN DSL/
Cable T1168 Hours 74 Hours 25 Hours 6.4 Hours
Internet2 30 Seconds
Time Required to Download2-hour Course Lecture DVDConsortium sent data over 20,000-mile path at 9.08 gigabits/sec
K20 Initiative
Connect and engage K-12s, museums, libraries, science and cultural centers, aquariums, community colleges, etc.
Increased opportunities for joint funding, collaboration with Higher Ed, student attraction, enhanced learning and education
K-20 Advisory Committee provides national leadership
38 Sponsored Education Group Participants
MN Sponsored Education Group Participants
• University of Minnesota is Internet2 Member• MN SEGP includes:
• ALL K-12 schools in MN - public and private• State and private colleges and universities• Libraries and informal education
institutions• All participants pay a fee for permission to
use the network• K-12 fee payment by TIES and Regional
Telecom Clusters
Who Is Connected?
260 MN Connecting Organizations in 2006
Internet2 Examples
Visualization, Innovation & Creativity
Build 21st Century Skills-Students will live and
work in a highly networked world.
Types of Applications?
• Videoconferencing– Class Collaborations– International
Collaborations– Access to Experts– Content
Providers/Virtual Field Trips
• Digital Library Resources
• Remote Instrumentation• Simulations
Class-to-Class Collaborations
• Flexibility – can be tailored to exact curricular needs.
• Authentic Learning - interactions can be very powerful.
• Engagement - especially engaging for visual and auditory learners.
Virtual Reading Group
Descent into the Underworld
Create your own I2 adventure…
International Collaborations
• Language: real-world contexts for second language practice
• Exchange: promote cultural empathy, understanding and exchange
• Preparation: encounters help prepare students for a global society
Language & Culture Exchange
bring the world to your students…
Megaconference Jr.
Access to Experts
• Make complex concepts accessible: Students can explore complex concepts with experts.
• Beyond theory: Experts provide real world connections for theory.
• Voice of Authority: Students hear directly from the “experts”
Virtual Surgery
anytime, anywhere…
Lenni Basso/Group Motion Collaboration
Content Providers
• Budget Field Trips: Allows students to “travel” to other areas at minimum or no cost.
• Immersion: Videoconferencing can bring live events into the classroom and immerse students in the experience.
• Curriculum Supplements: Virtual field trips or distance learning events are great project based learning activities.
• Differentiated Instruction: Distance learning supports individual learning opportunities.
travel virtually…
Facilitating K-12 videoconferencing:
• Develop Content: Work with educators to co-develop content
• Content Partnerships: Work with local organizations to facilitate the creation of new content or adaptation of existing content
• Professional Development: Offer both formal and informal development opportunities
• Vary Content: Discipline, age groups, program/project duration, use of other collaborative technologies, etc.
MAGPI’s Model Strategy
Digital Library Sources
• High-Quality: High performance networks allow for better media quality.
• Fast!: Material can be downloaded quickly.
• Real Time: Learning objects can be manipulated in real time.
• Easy Access: Digital libraries are easily accessible.
National Science Digital Library
Research Channel
bigger, better, real-time…
WGBH Teacher Domain
• Real Instruments: manipulate advanced scientific instruments in real time.
• Promotes Inquiry: real world exposure and real world contexts for inquiry-based learning.
Lehigh University’s
Electron Microscope
Virtual Temporal Bone Project
Acadia University’s MusicPath
Remote Instrumentationmanipulation across any distance
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Lehigh University Remote Scanning
Electron Microscope
http://www.lehigh.edu/~inimagin/
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The electron microscope allows your to magnify an object up to 200,000
times its normal size
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Remote access
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At the Connecticut Mystic Aquarium, visitors can peek underwater 3,000 miles away by remotely controlling underwater cameras in California's Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.
Simulation
Operation Montserrat
Immersive Segmentation
An Exercise in Hard Choices
reinforcing theory inside the classroom
• Immersion: Simulation tools provide immersive experiences for students.
• Engagement: Technology coupled with real-world contexts engages students.
Where we’ve been….
MN K-12 joins the SEGP• 2002
• Initial meeting with Myron Lowe, U of M Northern Lights GigaPoP
• TIES signed AUP, connected to GigaPoP• Attended Internet2 Fall Meeting• Joined Internet2 K-20 Advisory Meeting
• 2003-2004• Joined with MN Telecom Regional Directors• Presented at conferences, regional meetings• Participated in national projects
• MegaConference Jr. • Vanderbilt University professional development for
teachers• Jason Project • Rhode Island career shadowing
• MN Projects• TVbyGirls• Internet2 Listserv
Interest Grows• 2005-2008
• Governor’s China Visit series• MegaConference Jr. VJ’s and Presentations• International partnership - Cambridge Isanti• Electronic Field Trips - Marine Mote, NASA• Wolf Center Programming• MN Internet2 Day• Career Shadowing
• Live surgeries. Autopsies• Moorhead area interviews
• Participation in MAGPI programs • MN Internet2 User Group (MUG)• School to school projects (St. Paul & Stillwater)• World language study - Robbinsdale• Veteran’s Day Discussion with soldiers in Iraq - LCTN• Global warming discussion - MN. VA. TX, AK• Webinars, conferences, district presentations• MN MegaConference Jr. - May 1
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MN PartnersTVbyGirls: Mentoring and more
What is TVbyGirls?
A non-profit organization of female journalists and filmmakers that mentor girls on looking at the media with a critical eye.
http://tvbygirls.tv
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Virtual SurgeryJob shadowing with high schools and ALCs
TIES Partners:
Rhode Island Hospital, RINET, 12 Rhode Island Schools and 2 Minnesota schools.
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Virtual Surgery Movie
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Minnesota Governor’s Trade Mission to China
• Videoconference Series• Chinese Dance• Chinese History, Culture and
Arts• Emerging Medicine• Conversation with the Governor
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A Conversation with the Governor
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Megaconference Jr. International VJ Team
Nine collaborative teams representing their country or state for 13 hours on one day.
Slovenia, Minnesota, Canada, Indiana, Kentucky, Hawaii, North Dakota, China and Ohio.
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“My VJ experience
improved my resume which landed me my
first job”
Jason, age 18
http://www.magpi.net/PostedFiles/MegaconJr/
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MN Internet2 Day
• Build awareness in all regions of the state
• Overview of resources available• Integration and collaboration ideas• 150 educators at 9 sites
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MN Megaconference Jr Day649 people at 44 sites
• Build awareness among classroom teachers• Let the teachers and students try it out• Presentation Archive on InforMNs.k12.mn.us
Where we’re heading…
MN K-12 SEGP Future
• 2008• Proposal for statewide professional development and
programming based on MAGPI model
• Increase number of schools connected by training trainers to help teachers integrate the technology• From 0 in 2002 to 260 in 2006 to ???? In 2008• Includes both public and non-public schools
• Simplify the process for identifying classrooms for collaborators
• Bring MN cultural centers into the Internet2 community
• Support and increase the virtual statewide sharing network for our “evangelists” - the MN Internet2 Users Group
• Fall demo day for teachers about videoconference resources
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Getting to Internet2
• Connecting through Regional Telecom Consortium to Internet2
• Already using Abliene to access Internet2 sites
• May add videoconferencing• Codec• Firewall permissions• Find a partner or a project• InforMNs.k12.mn.us
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Accessibility Issues
• Quality will depend on slowest access connectivity (State Net, WAN, LAN)
• Wide variety of videoconferencing solutions (individual web cams to large scale units)
• Videoconferencing and firewalls require some set-up
• Connectivity to Internet2 depends on state network infrastructure
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What’s coming up?
• It’s Electric! The Lorax Gr. 9-12 late May• Live from Gemini Gr. 6-8• Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar
Scientists• Holocaust Survivor Webcast Archive• Inner World Discovery Gr. 9-12 May 16• 1927 Japanese Friendship Doll Project
through June 30 • Harriet Tubman Living History
Experience - May• United Nations World Food Program
Educational Game (MyK20 Database)
Link to Internet2 Project site: http://k20.internet2.edu/projects
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Resources(http://www.informns.k12.mn.us/resource_list.html)
Internet2 website http://www.internet2.edu
Internet2 K20 MUSE sitehttp://k20.internet2.edu
My K20 Database www.k20.internet2.edu
Center for Internactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC) Databasewww.cilc.org
MAGPI K20 Programs www.magpi.net/programs/index.html
TIES InforMNs Internet2 ResourcesInforMNs.k12.mn.us
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Resources
Iowa Public Televisionhttp://www.careers.iptv.orgw.gng.org/projectvoice(www.gng.org/projectvoice
Manhattan School of Musicwww.msmnyc.edu
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrationwww.noaa.gov/ocean.html
NASA virtual visits www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12
PACBell Videoconferncing Websitehttp://www.kn.pacbell.com
PacBell Videoconference Listserved1vidconf@lists.sdsu.edu
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Resources
Research Channel www.researchchannel.org
RINET Rhode Island Network for Educational TechnologyJob Shadowing Projectwww.ri.net/RINET
St. Clair County Learning Netwww.sccisd.org/dlc2/LNindex.html
Vanderbilt Universitywww.vanderbilt.edu/oso/vidcon.php
Videoconferencing CookbooK www.videnet.gatech.edu/cookbook
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Thank you!
Marla.Davenport@ties.k12.mn.us
http://www.InforMNs.k12.mn.us