Integrating Collaborative Services

StateNets / Net@Edu ConferenceFebruary 13, 2008

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Agenda

• Enabling Collaboration is integral to ENA’s mission

• Collaboration in K-12 environments

• Overview of Collaboration Tools offered by ENA– Stretching the current definition of collaboration tools

• Challenges of Integration

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Collaboration in K-12 Environments

• Helping with the business of running a school

• Instructional Collaboration– Video Conferencing/Distance Learning– Web Conferencing– Student Collaboration/Self-created Knowledge

• Good Old People Networking

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Collaboration Efforts at ENA

• People Networking– Indiana Network Leadership Council

• K-12 + Library + State Agency Representatives

– TN K-12 Network Advisory Council

– “Big 5” Council

– Superintendent Organizations

– Participation in various Regional/National Education Technology Conferences

• E-mail– Faculty/Staff E-mail (ENA Mail)

– Student E-mail (Gaggle.NET)

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Integrated Voice Collaboration

• Unified Messaging– A classic example of integration– Voicemail for every classroom

• Ad Hoc Click-to-Conference– Teleconferencing without a dedicated bridge

• Emergency Management/Communication Tools– Emergency Call monitoring, notification and workflow

• Broadcast System Integration– Integrating Overhead Paging, IP Phones, Two-way radio, Cell, and

Nextel

• Video Telephony – SIP-based video conferencing w/ software-based codecs– Integrated with PBX

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Possible Phone System – IN School for the Deaf

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Research & Development Initiatives

• Web Conferencing– Whiteboarding / Video / Audio / Data & Document Sharing &

Markup

• Video Conferencing– Distance Learning Initiatives

• Content Aggregation and Indexing– On-line search tool to aggregate both freely available and licensed

content– Beyond WWW, include things like:

• Video Content• Distance Learning Resources (ala CILC)

– Indexed against national & statewide education standards

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Challenges for Integration

• Reliability vs. Next Gen

• SIP vs. Everything Else

• Integrating SIP w/ discrete user domains (Id M & Integration)

• Communication archiving vs. multi-media real-time communication– Various Federal, State, Municipal rules for retention– Federal Rules of Civil Procedure