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Steve,
We have an interesting program starting with the Nebraska Educational
Television program. In rural Nebraska most of the schools do not have
access to broadband internet so NET has created the NETV Digital Classroom
project where they install datacasting boxes. These boxes allow users to
log into a website via dial-up and request materials from the collection
that is being broadcast over the NETV airwaves. Once the data comes up in
the queue, it takes about 3 minutes to download a 30 minute video.
The program is just in its infancy, but the technology is working great.
NETV has a handful of items to choose from ranging from PDFs to full hour
videos. This summer we will sit down with the NETV guys and start
discussing content that we can create and broadcast to our rural customers.
It is our vision that we will do this in conjunction with our distance
learning program so that a teacher can watch the 30 minute documentary on
Doctor Edgerton before our videoconference on the strobe light (still in the
works!)
I don't have much more information than that but if anyone is interested I
may be able to forward your questions to NETV and get some real answers.
Thanks
Chad Johnson
Experiential Educator
The Edgerton Explorit Center
http://www.edgerton.org
1.877.694.4032
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From: "Eric Siegel" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: broad band
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> Hi, Steve:
>
> Have you touched base with the Internet 2 people out in Ann Arbor?
> They are wrestling with some of the same issues. They have a huge
> amount of bandwidth connecting a limited group of partners, and from
> what I have seen and heard, their applications have been more
> evolutionary than revolutionary.
>
> As far as I can tell, video over IP is the killer app of broadband,
> video chat on the consumer side [where iChat seems to be best of breed]
> and video conferencing on the business side. Oh, and of course, P2P
> downloading all the stuff you can get your hands on both legal and less
> so. Downloading movies is the cutting edge of that market so far.
> There is an interesting technology in that world called Bittorrent
> which you may know about. If you don't, google it for a wealth of
> information, or you can email me off list.
>
> I have a feeling that you are looking for things more unthought of than
> videoconferencing and downloading videos. We are doing a haptic arm
> wrestle that will allow people at 4 or 5 museums to pair off on arm
> wrestling matches over the internet. Actually, though, it requires very
> little bandwidth, just a stream of numbers. However, it does use a
> streaming video interface to connect to put the wrestlers f2f. There
> is the inevitably cited, but rarely done, remote surgery, which relies
> less of big bandwidth than guaranteed bandwidth, basically you need to
> create a point to point connection during the surgery, you can't trust
> IP and packet switching and all that internet infrastructure in that
> kind of critical application.
>
> Hope that helps, and feel free to get in touch in you want more info on
> any of this.
>
> Eric Siegel
> Director, Planning & Program Development
> Connections Project Director
> New York Hall of Science
> 47-01 111th Street
> Queens, NY 11369
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> On May 2, 2004, at 10:29 AM, Stephen Brand wrote:
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> > I am doing some research for a group that I'm working with and would
> > love some input.
> >
> > I am looking to find out the most effective, interesting, impressive,
> > innovative, forward thinking or appropriate use of very broad band
> > technology that you have seen being used or proprosed in the non profit
> > world - it could be educational, experiential, adminstrative or even a
> > business strategy. When I say non profit, I include museums, cultural
> > institutions, hospitals, educational organizations, universities,
> > municipalities, social service, etc. Also, does anyone have any ideas
> > for what you would do if you had a huge bandwidth to send something out
> > on or develop a program around-- for example, hospitals are starting to
> > use broadband to send x-rays out on the internet for easy and quick
> > physician access. There is all of this talk about broadband, but
> > besides having faster and more email, what is the vision out there.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Stephen Brand
> > President and Chief Imagination Officer
> > The New Enterprise Factory, Inc.
> > 330-864-1518
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