With an early presentation of the Internet2 K20 Working Group to the Board meeting Day 2 of the FTC picked up right where Day 1 left off.
I will clearly support the work done by WiscNet’s databackup group. It may not sound sexy but think Katrina…it moves to the conversation and efforts to the forefront of WiscNet’s benefit to its membership: Community.
Tags: WiscNet, Future Technologies Conference, Madison, MIAD, data backup, trends
Dan Gross and I moderated the FTC session Integrating Art Into the Teaching of Math, Science and other Disciplines enabled by Internet2.
There could be no greater example of the power of WiscNet and Internet2 than by having Dale Hilton from the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) present a distance learning sample session on the Harlem Renaissance. Talk about hitting a homerun! This was an amazing session for educators in Wisconsin to experience Art and multimedia in a distance learning setting…from Madison to Cleveland over Internet2 in real-time.
Bill Moseley was the second keynote speaker today. Bill is a Professor of Computer Studies at Bakersfield College in California and an Adjunct Faculty in Pepperdine University’s Masters in Educational Technology Program. His presentation focused on how to utilize, test and play Second Life in education and the technical and curriculum challenges that this network application presents. The use of Second Life in education was also the focus of a session at the winter Internet2 conference in Chicago last December.
Tags: WiscNet, Future Technologies Conference, Bill Moseley, web2.0, Second LIfe
Keynote Speaker: Michael Wesch’s presentation Human Futures for Technology and Education was very well received and many were inspired by his work. New technologies have profound implications for education and force us to rethink how we teach, what we teach, and who we think we are teaching. (click on the play button in the movie frame)
What a great day for WiscNet! The first day of the 2007 Future Technologies Conference started with a bang…
Ron Kraemer, Deputy CIO at UW Madison announced WiscNet will be the support center for the new BOREAS network connecting: Ames, Iowa – Des Moines, Iowa | Chicago, Illinois * Iowa City, Iowa | Kansas City, Missouri | Madison, Wisconsin | Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Tags: WiscNet, Future Technologies Conference, Boreas, Internet2, network