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Integrating Collaborative Tools

Integrating Collaborative Tools. StateNets Annual Conference February 13, 2008. NCREN Collaboration Tools. Three years ago, MCNC and the NCREN community began an earnest effort focused on developing the best possible plan for collaboration tools.

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Integrating Collaborative Tools

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  1. Integrating Collaborative Tools StateNets Annual Conference February 13, 2008

  2. NCREN Collaboration Tools • Three years ago, MCNC and the NCREN community began an earnest effort focused on developing the best possible plan for collaboration tools. • A large group of volunteers representing many disciplines found in the universities met, talked, outlined, wrote, and refined the plan. • This and the following slide was our starting point. Video conference class at WCU Video control room at MCNC in RTP, NC

  3. NCREN Collaboration Tools • Provides centrally managed and coordinated services among universities and other institutions • Enables fully interactive, face-to-face, live discussions among sites • Supports up to 23 sites in a single conference • Interoperates 4 different audio/video techniques • NCREN integration of Video-over-IP (Internet Protocol) provides optimum flexibility: • Point-to-point MPEG2 video sessions • Point-to-point H.323 video sessions • Multi-point H.323 sessions • Gateways to NC State Gov’t (ITS) network • Ability to blend various video technologies

  4. NCREN Collaboration Tools The NCREN Collaborative Services Workgroup engaged the statewide community and used scenarios from The E-Learning Commission Report for North Carolina. Here are a couple of examples. And the following scenario was also used to show the power of collaboration tools.

  5. NCREN Collaboration Tools . The working group has identified the following collaborative services as high priorities for the higher education community in North Carolina in the near term.

  6. NCREN Collaboration Tools

  7. NCREN Collaboration Tools Emerging technologies and potential services include: • Classroom capture • Collaborative writing tools (e.g. Wikis) • Web-based broadcast services (e.g. podcasting, streaming), including the cataloging and archiving of those service • Virtual communities and social networks (e.g. Facebook, video blogs, Second Life, Croquet) • Utility services such as email and calendaring • Instant Messaging • New or non-IP based video services such as MPEG, High Definition TV, TV over RF

  8. NCREN Collaboration Tools A set of recommendations was developed in the first year, and then refined for each of the following two years. These recommendations are…

  9. NCREN Collaboration Tools And now, we’ve formed the following task groups: Governance Web Conferencing Digital Media Asset Licensing Video Conferencing Classroom Capture LearnNC meets Higher Ed.

  10. NCREN Collaboration Tools Thanks! John Killebrew jtk@ncren.net

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