Integrating Collaborative Services StateNets / Conference February 13, 2008

2 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

3 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

4 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 –Faculty/Staff (ENA Mail) –Student (Gaggle.NET)

5 Integrated Voice Collaboration Unified Messaging –A classic example of integration –Voic 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

6 Possible Phone System – IN School for the Deaf

7 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

8 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