8:15 AM EST     Jon Zeeff                                   Zeeff@internet2.edu

Virtual Briefings: Multi-modal Video Streaming of Live Events
John will launch the conference with a behind-the-scenes look at producing the Megaconfeence netcast using MPEG2, MPEG1, Windows Media, Real, and other modes of compression.

8:30 AM EST                 Art Recesso                              arecesso@coe.uga.edu
 
Improving University-School Communication in Rural Areas
We implemented multipoint continuous presence videoconferencing to improve communication between faculty supervisors, student teachers, and teacher-mentors. Faculty and student teachers are able to communicate "on-demand", more often, with improved quality of discussions when using a system that enables them to overcome large geographic barriers in rural areas.

8:45 AM EST                 Alberto Prandi                            alberto.prandi@dsa.uniud.it

Italian Students and Virtual Access
We adopted videoconferencing systems so that students can access places where they are not admitted for security or safety reasons, or just because they are too numerous to fit into laboratories, or to visit farms & industrial plants. Through videoconferencing they can be trained or/and experienced without moving from their classroom.  We use H.320 videoconferencing while visiting farms, because in Italy such places have ISDN lines instead of broadband internet connection.  H.323 (768kbps) videoconferencing is used from laboratories in the campus to train students about security and execution of dangerous/delicate experiments. Usually all material is recorded and encoded for further study (using RealMedia or Windows Media format).


9:00 AM EST                 Judson Elliot                              jselliot@bw.edu

Internet2 Takes Classrooms Out of This World
Experience the learning-expansion opportunities that Internet2 brings to the K-20 education environment, while hearing about immediate, practical benefits that could support teacher training through high quality connectivity.


9:15 AM EST                 Brad Peleg                                bp2@umail.umd.edu

Successful Videoconference-based Learning
Brad will share some of the experiences from his participation in the development, management, and delivery of a professional development series delivered via H.323 videoconferencing. The PowerPoint presentations can be accessed at: http://www.agnr.umd.edu/cit/dl/ .


9:30 AM EST                 Satellite trailer                           dixon.8@osu.edu

Bob Dixon et. al. have crafted a towable trailer capable of generating high-speed internet access via satellite.  The trailer will travel from place-to-place during the course of the day and will check in at the end of each formal session from heaven-only-knows-where!


1:15 PM EST                 Amela Sadagic              amela@mailhost.advanced.org
 
Videoconferencing in K-12 Education: Moving it from a Promise to Successful Future Practice
The presentation provides our views on how to move from appliance-centric approach to a human-centric approach when dealing with videoconferencing systems in K-12 education, and how to exploit those systems to the best of their potential. We offer insights from our last year project called "Imagining the Future", and share ideas about the future projects that enrich current and introduce novel and engaging teaching and learning practices.


1:30 PM EST                 Ella Belzberg                             Ella@education.ucsb.edu

Cross-cultural Student Dialogue

Ella Belzberg and UCSB with USC will present the use of videoconference, in which students is Israel share with students in California how they have experienced the positive effect of how dialogue and democratic practices within their school have reduced school violence.


1:45 PM EST                 Stephen Barnes, PhD                 sbarnes@uab.edu

Videoconferencing with University Partners in an NIH Botanicals Center
Dr. Barnes, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Charles Santerre, PhD, Purdue University, will discuss how the NIH-funded Purdue-UAB Botanicals Center utilizes videoconferencing to enable four separate components (Purdue, UAB, Bioanalytical Systems and Rutgers University) to cooperatively pursue research, training, education and outreach despite each being 500-700 miles apart. Executive committees, grant planning, grant review, and seminars and lab presentations are conducted over the internet. Future plans include graduate level classes being available for students at the participating institutions, and remote involvement of NIH officials in Center activities.


2:00 PM EST                 James Steinbach                       steinbach@wpt.org

Public Television: Collaborative I2 possibilities
It's been said that for Public Television, the technology is finally catching up with the mission. A variety of new technologies and delivery systems offer expanded opportunities for PTV stations to provide a wide range of services, including multicasting and datacasting. Several I2 projects may generate important practical experience in collaborative content creation and new programming streams.


2:15 PM EST                 Dr. Harold Johnson                     hjohnson@kent.edu

Join Together: An Emerging Internet2 Network for the field of Deaf Education

Dr. Johnson, Professor at Kent State University/Deaf Education Teacher Preparation Program, and Mr. Tom McNeal, Director/Kent State University/Desktop Collaboration Project (www.dvcproject.org/) will demonstrate the use of a nation-wide K-20 H.323 video conferencing network that has been established to enhance the preparation of teachers of students who are deaf/hard-of-hearing.  The network, which now includes over 60 hearing/deaf individuals throughout the nation, was established as a pilot project within a three year, $2.1 million Preparing Tomorrow Teachers to Use Technology Catalyst grant (www.deafed.net) that was awarded in June of 2000 to the Association of College Educators - Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing (www.acedhh.org).  The presentation will include the use of a number of videoconferencing technologies to permit several University and K-12 based Deaf Education colleagues from throughout the nation to share with the conference attendees how they are using the network to enhance teaching and learning.  The presentation will conclude with information concerning the emerging development of an Internet2 opportunity for the field of Deaf Education. 


2:30 PM EST                 Janet Poley, PhD                       jpoley@unl.edu

jmeans@unlserve.unl.edu

As the President and CEO of the American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC), Dr. Poley is able to share insights into the general state of distance learning in the US and to help identify themes running through all of today's wide array of presentations.


2:45 PM EST                 Satellite trailer                           dixon.8@osu.edu

Where's the trailer transmitting from Now?


6:15 PM EST                 Laura Diggs                               DiggsL@missouri.edu

WedmanJ@missouri.edu

Show Me The World
A global education initiative launched by the University of Missouri College of Education has created a global learning community using Internet2 to develop and foster multi-national school/community relationships, promote cross-cultural learning and experience, and facilitate comprehensive school improvement. The Show Me The World presentation will describe and illustrate how urban and rural students and teachers in Missouri are using IP video and open source middleware to partner with their counterparts in Taipei, Taiwan.


6:30 PM EST                 Benjamin Thompson                   benjamin@hypermediaeducation.com

Distributed Theatre
From his host site at the University of Southern California, Hyper Media Director Benjamin Thompson collaborates with Professor Brian Brophy, Humanites Lecturer at the University of California, Riverside, more than 100 miles away. This is part of an on-going pilot developing multi-campus collaborative visualization for the Humanities, in which communications technicians and artists work in an integrated manner to present to distributed audiences. Implementation of such presentations will help support continued development of cross-disciplinary communities and distance education in the arts.


6:45 PM EST                 Dr. Elizabeth Dow                      edow1@lsu.edu

rsimmons@lsu.edu

Multiple-school Course-work Collaboration
Dr. Elizabeth Dow teaches in the LSU School of Library and Information Science and decided to offer coursework that only LSU teaches in the Southeast to other schools in the region. She received grant funding, and is now alpha-testing her remote course to Auburn University and plans to expand to four other universities in the Fall of 2003.  During the four semesters of classes funded by the grant, LSU, Auburn, Univ. of Kentucky, Univ. of South Carolina, Georgia College and State University will share faculty and students in a single collaborative effort to develop a shared curriculum which no one school could achieve alone.



7:00 PM EST                 Susan Amirian                           amirians@mail.montclair.edu

Pedagogical Strategies Evident in a Review of Recent Literature on Educational Videoconferencing
A very brief overview of the predominant themes.


7:15 PM EST                 Satellite trailer                           dixon.8@osu.edu

One last time for the wondering internet transmission coming from somewhere within Ohio...we suspect!  Closing remarks by MC Bob...if he's still able!

8:00 PM EST                 Megaconference IV wraps...thanks to all, 'til next year.