Internet2 K20 Meeting @NCAR – 9 August 2012
Breakout Group #3: An IVC Project in the Making: the Planning Process from Idea to Inception w/ Carol Willis
8 participants from NOAA, NSDL, Spark, Texas Educational Television Network, MERIT
· Importance of face to face time and networking
· Collaboration is so important for innovation, for teachers and students
· Can’t place technology burden on teachers
· Much more infrastructure is needed for these concepts to be successful
· In TX every service center has distance learning programs
· Learn by doing – coordinating, marketing, reaching target audience
· Review of this specific project’s details
· Why does K20 need Internet2? For the community, Internet2 provides a service that ISPs cannot/do not
· Baby steps
· Addition to program vs. integral part of program
Lunch
· Dealing with nex gen science benchmarks
· What more to Internet2 is there than content delivery? Applications
· The difference between commodity internet and Internet2 and how schools can take advantage of that
· Importance of middle-ware: not even fellow scientists can use other scientists data, have to make it usable in the classroom
· Make sure to target individual users: distance learners, non-traditional students, rogue/innovative teachers and content creators, free-agent learner
· Kids watching other kids interact: not as good as interaction, but still better than just watching TV
· Access to Internet2 for secondary education pre-service especially important because they really need to know the subjects and the technology, but difficult to reach
After Lunch
· Presidential libraries, museums, sharing source documents
· Eagle net is working on connecting CO schools
· Training needed for distance teaching and interacting through technology, maybe something UCAR Communications could work on
· Getting information to teachers: info -> listserves -> district contacts -> teachers
· HD Webcams for classrooms: Lifesize
· Better training for Science on a Sphere presenters at museums: discussed ideas/opportunities for SOS as group
· Digital libraries greatly assist teachers; how can they play a part in I2?
Wrap-up
· Internet2 meetings are very unique; thoughtful discussion