SMA Distance Education Luncheon

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SMA Distance Education Luncheon

• Videoconferencing From Home
• October 28, 2003

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Agenda

• Welcome and introductions
• SMA Distance Education update
• Home access overview
• Examples of home videoconferencing
• solutions
• Discussion

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SMA Updates

• Upgraded RI room 8-408
• Updated classrooms
• LiNC, Ford and Kaufman
• Sympodium tablets for real-time annotations
• Enhanced on-demand streaming video
• Saving Sympodium class annotations
• Improved access to the SMA research papers with
  DSpace
• On-going work on reliability and quality of
  connections

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Home Access Overview
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Examples of Videoconferencing Solutions

• PC-Attached
• VCONs ViGO
• Non-invasive solution for desktop and laptop
• Portable device
• Interconnection of a camera and mike to a PC or
  laptop
• Easy attachment of a document camera
• 700

• Stand-Alone Appliance
• Tandberg 550
• Compact set-top unit
• Fits on any standard TV
• Integrated wide angle camera with PTZ
• File sharing
• Choice of network
• 3,000

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QA
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How Does the Connection Work?
Commodity Internet