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Engaging MN Students with Real Time Learning Experiences Using Internet2 Marla Davenport TIES

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.

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Engaging MN Students with Real Time Learning Experiences Using Internet2 Marla Davenport TIES

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  1. Engaging MN Students with Real Time Learning Experiences Using Internet2 Marla Davenport TIES

  2. Getting Started • Background on Internet2 • Where we’ve been • Where we’re heading

  3. 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

  4. Internet2’s National Network

  5. How do we reach the backbone?

  6. Extended Internet2 Network

  7. Advanced Research and Education Networks Worldwide

  8. Internet2 Capacity Internet2 30 Seconds 56 kbps ISDN DSL/Cable T1 168 Hours 74 Hours 25 Hours 6.4 Hours Time Required to Download2-hour Course Lecture DVDConsortium sent data over 20,000-mile path at 9.08 gigabits/sec

  9. 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

  10. 38 Sponsored Education Group Participants

  11. 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

  12. Who Is Connected? 260 MN Connecting Organizations in 2006

  13. Internet2 Examples

  14. Visualization, Innovation & Creativity Build 21st Century Skills -Students will live and work in a highly networked world.

  15. Types of Applications? • Videoconferencing • Class Collaborations • International Collaborations • Access to Experts • Content Providers/Virtual Field Trips • Digital Library Resources • Remote Instrumentation • Simulations

  16. 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. Create your own I2 adventure… Virtual Reading Group Descent into the Underworld

  17. 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 bring the world to your students… Language & Culture Exchange Megaconference Jr.

  18. 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” anytime, anywhere… Virtual Surgery Lenni Basso/Group Motion Collaboration

  19. 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…

  20. 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

  21. 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. bigger, better, real-time… Research Channel National Science Digital Library WGBH Teacher Domain

  22. Real Instruments: manipulate advanced scientific instruments in real time. Promotes Inquiry: real world exposure and real world contexts for inquiry-based learning. Remote Instrumentation manipulation across any distance Lehigh University’s Electron Microscope Virtual Temporal Bone Project Acadia University’s MusicPath

  23. Lehigh University Remote Scanning Electron Microscope The electron microscope allows your to magnify an object up to 200,000 times its normal size http://www.lehigh.edu/~inimagin/

  24. Remote access 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.

  25. Simulation reinforcing theory inside the classroom • Immersion: Simulation tools provide immersive experiences for students. • Engagement: Technology coupled with real-world contexts engages students. Operation Montserrat Immersive Segmentation An Exercise in Hard Choices

  26. Where we’ve been….

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. MN PartnersTVbyGirls: Mentoring and more http://tvbygirls.tv What is TVbyGirls? A non-profit organization of female journalists and filmmakers that mentor girls on looking at the media with a critical eye.

  30. Virtual SurgeryJob shadowing with high schools and ALCs TIES Partners: Rhode Island Hospital, RINET, 12 Rhode Island Schools and 2 Minnesota schools.

  31. Virtual Surgery Movie

  32. Minnesota Governor’s Trade Mission to China • Videoconference Series • Chinese Dance • Chinese History, Culture and Arts • Emerging Medicine • Conversation with the Governor

  33. A Conversation with the Governor

  34. Megaconference Jr. International VJ Team http://www.magpi.net/PostedFiles/MegaconJr/ • 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. “My VJ experience improved my resume which landed me my first job” Jason, age 18

  35. International Wolf CenterEly, Minnesota http://wolf.org

  36. MN Internet2 Day • Build awareness in all regions of the state • Overview of resources available • Integration and collaboration ideas • 150 educators at 9 sites

  37. 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

  38. Where we’re heading…

  39. 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

  40. 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

  41. 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

  42. 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

  43. Resources(http://www.informns.k12.mn.us/resource_list.html) Internet2 website http://www.internet2.edu Internet2 K20 MUSE site http://k20.internet2.edu My K20 Database www.k20.internet2.edu Center for Internactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC) Database www.cilc.org MAGPI K20 Programs www.magpi.net/programs/index.html TIES InforMNs Internet2 Resources InforMNs.k12.mn.us

  44. Resources Iowa Public Television http://www.careers.iptv.orgw.gng.org/projectvoice(www.gng.org/projectvoice Manhattan School of Musicwww.msmnyc.edu National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration www.noaa.gov/ocean.html NASA virtual visits www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12 PACBell Videoconferncing Website http://www.kn.pacbell.com PacBell Videoconference Listserv ed1vidconf@lists.sdsu.edu

  45. Resources Research Channel www.researchchannel.org RINET Rhode Island Network for Educational Technology Job Shadowing Project www.ri.net/RINET St. Clair County Learning Net www.sccisd.org/dlc2/LNindex.html Vanderbilt University www.vanderbilt.edu/oso/vidcon.php Videoconferencing CookbooK www.videnet.gatech.edu/cookbook

  46. ????Questions???? Thank you! Marla.Davenport@ties.k12.mn.us http://www.InforMNs.k12.mn.us

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