Collaboration SIG Fall 2006 Chicago

Fall 2006 Internet2 Member Meeting in Chicago, IL

Tuesday, December 5, 2006 CC21A/B

Attendee list Fall 2006

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)