This project is dedicated to serving a community of scientists, educators, engineers, private citizens, businesses, non-profits and government organizations focused on building Cyberinfrastructure.
The tools include this website (a so-called "curated repository" of useful information resources updated daily), a "current awareness" service by which information is selectively targeted to those with interest, an electronic journal, a series of regularly staged events and discussions about where technologies are taking us (and how we can best develop and harness them), and a set of communication services to encourage cooperation across the organizational and disciplinary lines that may slow and hinder work on development of a global advanced communications and computing network.
Teaching with Technology - A Synchronous Online Seminar
This week's article reports on a recent experience conducting a Synchronous Online Seminar with correspondents widely separated by distance, using hardware, software and networks widely available to classrooms. And then goes on to discuss how this technique might enhance instruction in our classrooms.
Briefly mentions a couple SOS collaboration tools including Net Meeting & iChat then goes on to describe a session with Marratech using the Harvard server which is described as installed by the Boston "Internet2 Consortium."
Marratech - The e-meeting company / e-möten från Marratech
Marratech's eMeeting Portal helps groups of people to communicate, collaborate and manage information from their computers. It gives users a secure e-meeting environment where members can talk with high quality audio, share information, pictures, MS Office documents and see each other.
The ReMarkable Texts system is targeted for pen computing, specifically the Tablet PC. The Tablet PC is like a laptop, but it allows the user to write "ink" directly on its screen as if it were a notebook. Thanks to how Tablet PC's are designed, it is fairly natural to do handwriting and sketching. Most Tablet PC's allow the user to ink without the keyboard in the way, either by folding away or detaching the keyboard. In the future, it is expected that most students and knowledge workers will have a Tablet PC instead of the laptops they have today.
ReMarkable Texts is a digital notebook, utilizing the Tablet PC, to be used by students and professionals for taking notes on lectures and collaborative projects. The goal of the system is to provide the ease of traditional notetaking on paper while utilizing the power of a computer.
The biggest difference between this project and other note-taking applications like Microsoft's Journal or One Note is that ReMarkable Texts is a vehicle for general and domain-specific note-taking research. To facilitate this research ReMarkable Texts is released as open source and includes a TabletPC note-taking plug-in framework. For example, ReMarkable Texts not only has standard inking and annotation features, but also provides various types of retrieval mechanisms on ink, tags, and other metadata, both synchronous and asynchronous collaboration, history playback, and fine-grained bidirectional hyperlinking. The system's collaboration functionality is built on ConferenceXP.