Network Enabled Teaching

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Network Enabled Teaching Learning
Jim MoranOutreach Coordinatorjimmoran_at_merit.edu

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Merit Network Overview...

• Founded 1966
• The Michigan Education Research Information Triad
  (MERIT) formed in 1966 because significant
  benefits might be gained from sharing computing
  resources via an electronic linkage

• A non-profit, 501(c)3 corporation governed by
  Michigans state universities

• NSFNET backbone joint project with IBM, and
  MCI, 1988-1992
• Expanded beyond governing members, 1990s
• MichNet Statewide Dial-in Network, 1992-2007
• Among the first GigaPOPs, 1999
• Facilities-based network, 2000

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Merit Network Overview...

• A non-profit, 501(c)3 corporation governed by
  Michigans state universities

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Merit Network Overview...

• A non-profit, 501(c)3 corporation governed by
  Michigans state universities
• No state subsidies

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Merit Network Overview...

• A non-profit, 501(c)3 corporation governed by
  Michigans state universities
• No state subsidies
• No mandate for state educational organizations
  to connect through Merit

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Merit Network Overview...

• A non-profit, 501(c)3 corporation governed by
  Michigans state universities
• No state subsidies
• No mandate for state educational organizations
  to connect through Merit
• Operate on a for-fee basis compete with
  commercial ISPs

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Merit Network Overview...

• A non-profit, 501(c)3 corporation governed by
  Michigans state universities
• No state subsidies
• No mandate for state educational organizations
  to connect through Merit
• Operate on a for-fee basis compete with
  commercial ISPs eligible E-Rate provider

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Merit Network Overview...

• A non-profit, 501(c)3 corporation governed by
  Michigans state universities
• No state subsidies
• No mandate for state educational organizations
  to connect through Merit
• Operate on a for-fee basis compete with
  commercial ISPs eligible E-Rate provider
• Market share
• 12 0f 13 state universities
• 75 other highered orgs
• 50 K12s
• Libraries, government, health care

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• Merit operates production statewide research
  education network (formerly MichNet)

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• Merit
• National research and development activities
• Multicast
• Cyber-security
• International routing database
• International operators forum
• Network measurement and end-to-end performance
• High-performance applications?video
• IPv6

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Network Teaching Learning

• Non-Internet DL
• What is this thing, technically?
• The Internet in education, Wave 1
• What is this thing, technically?
• An explosion of resources
• Communication
• The Internet in education, Wave 2
• What is this thing, technically?
• Covergence, the Holy Grail
• Broadened access to authentic resources
• Collaboration

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Network Teaching Learning

• Non-Internet DL
• Correpondence Courses, mail, then dial-in
• Analogue Digital Video, ISDN other uses of
  the PSTN
• Presence Walls other extraordinarily-expense
  stuff

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Network Teaching Learning

• The Internet in education, Wave 1
• What is this thing, technically?
• democratic/universal/shared
• An explosion of resources
• Communication

• TCP/IP

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TCP/IP TransmisionControlProtocol InternetProtocol
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TCP/IP
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Network Teaching Learning

• The Internet in education, Wave 1
• What is this thing, technically?
• democratic/universal/shared
• An explosion of resources
• Communication

• TCP/IP

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Network Teaching Learning

• The Internet in education, Wave 2
• What is this thing, technically?
• Covergence, the Holy Grail
• QoS required, Latency, Scalability
• Broadened access to authentic resources
• Collaboration

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• Web 2.0

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Network Teaching Learning

• Is It Only Videoconferencing?

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Network Teaching Learning

• Is It Only Videoconferencing?

NO

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Network Teaching Learning

• Remote learning
• Virtual field trips
• Video Teleconference
• Low latency
• High-definition
• Live Observation
• Richer educational objects
• Data mining
• High-definition clips
• e.g. United Streaming
• Multi-media tools
• Digital storytelling
• Simulations
• Photos museum quality images
• Shared access to educational objects
• Peer-to-peer technologies

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Network Teaching Learning

• Is It Only Videoconferencing?

YES

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High Performance Networking Applications

• IP-based videostreaming and videoconferencing is
  the killer app at this time
• Compared to traditional videoconferencing and
  videostreaming systems
• No per-minute line charges
• Higher-resolution video
• More flexible IP video can be used anywhere
  there is an ethernet jack
• Video hardware manufacturers have adopted IP

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Video Many Forms Available

• Codecs compress and decompress video
• Low to medium-speed compressed digital (Real,
  WindowsMedia, QuickTime) many variations!
• H.261 and H.263 (for two-way interactive H.323)
• MPEG-1 and MPEG-2
• HDTV
• One-way videostreaming
• Streaming use of one of the above codecs, with
  some control to start,stop, perhaps select within
  session

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Videoconferencing

• Two-way videoconferencing
• Two types
• Point-to-point (desktop to desktop)
• Multipoint (classroom to classroom)

• Graphic coming

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Videoconferencing (contd.)

• H.323 is current standard among many
  possibilities
• Allows small-group video teleconferencing
• Distance education, both individual and large
  group
• Much of local hardware may be shared with H.320,
  or interoperate with it to build video nets with
  larger domains
• H.323 IP-basedH.320 ISDN (phoneline-based)
• Higher-quality alternatives MPEG2
• Emerging technologies DVTS, MPEG4, H.264

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Video Field Trips

• Video Field Trips
• Benefits of traditional field trips, Authentic
  Learning widely accepted debated
• novelty
• logistics
• Benfits of video field trips more than not having
  to coordinate buses.
• cost
• frequency
• reduced novelty
• geographic novelty, which refers to the students'
  familiarity with the field trip site,
• psychological novelty, which refers to the extent
  to which students have previously considered
  field trips to be social rather than learning
  activities, and
• cognitive novelty, which refers to the skills and
  concepts the students encounter and are expected
  to master on the field trip
• range of opportunities

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Welcome! The Gerda Weissmann Klein webcast has
concluded. See the Merit website for the archive.

Webcast Made Possible By Merit Network,
Internet2, Battle Creek Public Schools, Lakeview
School District, Calhoun Intermediate School
District, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and the
Klein Foundation
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Internet2 - K12 Applications

• Remote Microscopy
• U-M scanning electron microscope can be used from
  SEGP classrooms
• Start video

• John Mansfield operating the North Campus XL30FEG
  from the middle school computer classroom at
  Emerson School, Ann Arbor.

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Internet2 Services

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Todays Commodity Internet-and whats next

• Mission-critical applications seldom pursued on
  public Internet
• Best effort not good enough when performance is
  critical
• Often forced to use intranets and extranets
• Before Library of Congress available on
  Internet2, best connection was through costly
  Intranet (H.323, ISDN)
• We cant conceive of potential applications when
  unlimited bandwidth available
• Were nowhere near done inventing the Internet

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High-performance Networking Outside Michigan on
Internet2

• 10 Gigabit backbone
• Leading edge routing practices
• Class of Service Available Intra-Internet2

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What is Internet2?

• Established by large U.S. research universities
• Grew out of frustration with commercial Internet
• Commercialization of the Internet shifted focus
  to financial gain and short-circuited exploration
  and invention
• High capacity, high speed
• Investment in a NEW research and learning
  Internet exclusively for use by education.

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Internet2 Info

• Merit is the only source for Internet2 attachment
  in Michigan
• Merits participation in SEGP program provides I2
  access for no additional fees for
  MichNet-attached educational institutions
• No Internet2-specific routing protocols or
  standards?all traffic flows as IP

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Abilene (Internet2) Backbone

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Internet2 GigaPoPs

• Merit is Michigans GigaPop
• Large-capacity Points of Presence
• Very high-speed regional aggregations points

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GigaPoP Locations
Texas N. Texas GigaPoPs

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Internet2 Members

• More than 200 universities
• Over 60 corporations
• Over 40 non-profits and govt. labs
• Many K20s via SEGP program

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Sponsored Educational Group Participation (SEGP)

• Merit can now provide Internet2 access to
  additional organizations in Michigan
• Public and private universities
• K-12 schools
• Community colleges
• Libraries and Museums
• Hospitals and clinics involved in education
• Non-educational organizations can also
  participate, but need to be individually sponsored

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Sponsored Educational Group Participation (SEGP)

• This is access, not membership in Internet2
• Internet2 membership is not required, though it
  is an option for some organizations
• There is great benefit in simply being able to do
  things that are already there in the commodity
  Internet, but do them well.

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34 SEGP States Potential Collaborators

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Transfer Times for The Matrix on DVD
171 hours
74 hours
25 hours
6.4 hours
56K Modem
ISDN
DSL / Cable
T1
30 seconds Internet2 / Abilene
Source Internet2, John W. Fleming, Detroit Free
Press, Mike Wendland Technology
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Internet2 K20 Connectivity Survey2002 2004

• K20s have largest number of connections
• More results k20.internet2.edu/
  connect_survey_index.php

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Internet2 - K12 Applications

• National Science Digital Library
• eSkeleton, interactive skeleton tool
• www.nsdl.org

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Internet2 - K12 Applications

• K12 University
• Musical Collaboration
• Live and in concert!
• High School Jazz Band students from Port Huron
  Northern played with Collegiate Jazz students
  from Oakland Univ.
• Music Prof. Danny Jordan provided real-time
  instruction.

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Internet2 - K12 Applications
Music Bridges Manhattan School of Music

• Internet2 used to deliver remote music
  instruction to K12
• www.msmnyc.edu/special/video/
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Internet2 - K12 Applications

• Slide Heard Round
• the World!
• Virtual gathering of trombonists through
  Internet2. The Slide schedule includes a
  variety of performances, master classes, demos,
  and lectures from Wheaton College.

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Internet2 - K12 Applications

• Long-Distance
• Performance
• Kinetic Shadows performance occurs
  simultaneously with cast members in Cleveland and
  LA
• Choreographed for I2 by Gary Galbraith, Martha
  Graham principal and faculty member at Case
  Western Reserve
• Start Video

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Internet2 - K12 Applications
Digital Learning Commons

• Washington State School for the Blind
• www.learningcommons.org/
• Start Video

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Internet2 - K12 Applications

• JASON Project
• www.jason.org/

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Internet2 - K12 Applications

• JASON (contd.)
• Managed by Dr. Robert Ballard
• High-performance networking enables
  videoconferencing and remote control of
  scientific instrumentation.
• Upcoming Expeditions include Disappearing
  Wetlands and a Returnto the Titanic
• Satellite uplinked data from the Expeditions
  teams available only on Internet2.
• Play Video

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Internet2 - K12 Applications

• World Tour Language
• Exchange Program
• Videoconferencing allows direct interaction with
  foreign language speakers
• Increase conversational skills of HS foreign
  language students introduce elementary students
  to different cultures.

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Internet2 - K12 Applications

• Lewis Clark Then
• and Now -
• Linking the Trail
• to Americas Students
• Access to live videostreaming classroom
  interaction as Lewis Clark Expeditionre-enacted
  from 2003-2006.
• www.apple.com/ lewisandclark/
• Start Video

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Internet2 - K12 Applications

• Lewis Clark
• Across Missouri
• High-performance networking enables use of
  interactive map server to explore Lewis and Clark
  locations in historical and contemporary
  contexts. Students combine early and modern maps
  to follow the trail.

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Internet2 - K12 Applications

• ShowMe The World
• Globalization Initiative
• Videoconferencing and web-based
  collaborative software makes it possible to pair
  U.S. elementary and middle school classrooms with
  foreign classrooms for year-long partnerships.

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Internet2 - K12 Applications

• Virtual Marine
• World Investigation
• Immersion into virtual marine environments
  for inquiry-based science learning. Currently
  two environments on Pacific coast plans to add
  more.

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Internet2 - K12 Applications

• NASA Explores Highest
• Lake on Earth
• Licancabur expedition studying 20,000-foot lake
  for conditions that support life in extreme
  environments.
• Yields info about life on Mars.
• Access to high-resolution images, videostreaming,
  stored video of classrooms conducting science
  experiments supporting the expedition.

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Internet2 - K12 Applications

• NEPTUNE
• 3,000 km of fiber-optic, power cable spatially
  associated with the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate
  in the northeast Pacific.
• Sensor networks and interactive experiments
  easily accessible to researchers, educators, and
  students.
• Show Video1
• Show Video2

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Internet2 - K12 Applications

• Visualization
• Exploration of the ocean floor
• www.cev.washington.edu

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Google Earth
Internet2 - K12 Applications

• 3D interface to the planet
• Based on technology developed by Keyhole
  project
• Mt. Rainier Flyby
• Tokyo Exploration
• Focus on Kabul
• earth.google.com

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The Exploratorium
Internet2 - K12 Applications

• www.exploratorium.org/
• Start Video

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Internet2 - K12 Applications

• Earthwatch Teachers
• Teach Live from the Field
• Teachers participate in field projects sponsored
  by the Earthwatch Institute.
• Teachers in Fla. Manatee Studies and Chimp
  Communication Studies
• Work with their classrooms via the web, email,
  andvideoconferencing.

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Internet2 - K12 Applications

• Virtual Job Shadowing
• Rhode Island high school students took virtual
  field trip inside operating room to witness
  orthopedic surgery.
• Physicians and nurses addressed students and
  fielded questions during surgical procedure.
• Pre-operative session held, and post-operative
  session planned.

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Internet2 - K12 Applications

• The Visible Human
• Virtual anatomy
• 2D high resolution images today, 3D in
  development
• Database at supercomputer for visualizations

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Internet2 - K12 Applications

• Brain Morphology
• BIRN
• Biomedical Informatics Research Network
• NIH initiative
• Collaborative environment for biomed health
  care research
• www.nbirn.net

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Internet2 - K12 Applications

• Remote Microscopy
• U-M scanning electron microscope can be used from
  SEGP classrooms
• Start video

• John Mansfield operating the North Campus XL30FEG
  from the middle school computer classroom at
  Emerson School, Ann Arbor.

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Internet2 - K12 Applications

• Teachers Domain-WGBH
• Multimedia resources for classroom and prof.
  development
• Nova Earth video segments
• Images from NASA's Earth Science Enterprise
• Voices, events, images from Civil Rights movement
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Internet2 - K12 Applications

• Research Channel
• Consortium of research universities and corporate
  research divisions
• The C-SPAN of scientific and medical research
• Conventional TV broadcasts plus on-demand video
  library

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Internet2 - K12 Applications

• Multimedia Papers
• Truman Presidential Library

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Remote Instrumentation

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Distributed nanoManipulator
Mauna Kea Observatories

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Internet2 - K12 Applications

• Tele-excavator
• Excavation backhoe operated remotely over
  Internet2
• Used in hazardous rescue situations
• Sophisticated two-way feedback using
  stereovision
• North Carolina State University
• CARL.ce.ncsu.edu

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Internet2 - K12 Applications

• Looking at Data
• About Us
• Individuals 2000 census data
• Visualization of geodata

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Immersive Virtual Spaces

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MegaConference Jr.
Internet2 - K12 Applications

• www. megaconferencejr.org
• Start Video

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• Teleconferencing
• A social space of the future
• Available at MITC

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Why High-performance Networking on MichNet and
Internet2?

• Access high-performance applications and the
  commodity Internet
• Explore new teaching and learning applications
• Collaborate with others in the education,
  library, research, and non-profit community
• Experience commodity Internet performance
  improvements

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For More Information

• http//www.merit.edu/
• http//www.internet2.edu/
• http//k20.internet2.edu/
• jimmoran_at_merit.edu

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Questions...
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