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Internet2 at EAA

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date July 28, 2006

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This is a single shot of a joint flyover at Wednesday’s EAA airshow in OshKosh Wisconsin.

This morning was my first EAA experience. On behalf of WiscNet’s Internet2 K20 Working Group I co-presented at EAA’s Teacher Day. Our session “Internet2: connecting classrooms” focused on the how new internet2 applications are moving out of the research phase. The new internet2 solutions are in the following content themes:

Multimedia libraries
Remote scientific instruments
Experiences and Expertise
Creating New Knowledge & Opportunities
International Learning Communities

Examples of the new multimedia libraries include the National Science Digital Library, the eSkeletons Project, The WGBH Teacher’s Domain and the Research Channel.

Remote instrumentation permits K12 educators to actually control the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii. Experiences and Expertise have been hilighted by Project Jason the Manhattan School of Music and the Lewis and Clark Project. Part of Creating new Knowledge & Opportunities is the excellent Neptune program in Washington. The International Learning Communities has been hilighted by the MegaConference Jr. with began in 2004 for students in elementary and secondary schools the ability to communicate with schools around the globe.

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Best OS X Widget?

Attention Mac Users:
Internet2 has released (maybe) the ultimate widget…indicating your connection to Internet2.

I2 widget

If you are connected to Internet2…you get access…and its all about access – right?
Get the widget here

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Co-Chair: WiscNet Internet2 K20 WorkingGroup

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date April 22, 2006
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I’m a new co-chair for WiscNet’s Internet2 K20 WorkingGroup. This past week I was in Madison at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Monona Terrace during WiscNet’s Future Technologies Conference. Very impressed with the program: two days of networking (people) and sessions regarding networking (fiber cables) in Wisconsin and focusing on Milwaukee.

As you may be aware Internet2 connects the best research projects at leading institutions around the country. One of their programs is the K20 project, bringing Internet2 members and K12 schools together — especially Museums — in sharing new technologies, applications, and content to discuss the concept of the use of Internet2 in education, explore advanced applications that utilize advanced networks.
On a personal note: Since the beginning of Internet2 my experiences at the University of Chicago and Marquette all projects focused on pure scientific research. Today Internet2 has grown to embrace the Arts. I believe these developments from the conference will benefit MIAD as we continue to embrace a faster, more robust internet for Art education.

Internet2 proves a powerful thing: when you watch live HD video streaming from a coral reef in Sydney Australia as you overlook Lake Monona…you feel small.

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