Subject: RE: Science Education ITR discussion -- Wednesday
Resent-Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 14:18:58 -0500
Resent-From: Geoffrey Fox <gcf@npac.syr.edu>
Resent-To: p_gcf@npac.syr.edu
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 12:59:43 -0500
From: "Roscoe Giles" <roscoe@bu.edu>
To: "Scott Lathrop" <scott@ncsa.uiuc.edu>, "Geoffrey Fox" <gcf@npac.syr.edu>,
     "Reagan Moore" <moore@sdsc.edu>, "Raquell Holmes" <rmholmes@bu.edu>,
     "Louis Gomez" <l-gomez@nwu.edu>, bievenue@ncsa.uiuc.edu

Greetings!

I look forward to talking with you all this afternoon.  The conversation
will be brief (30 minutes) and there are a number of points we should touch.
I will be spending all day thursday on the preproposal and hopefully will
have it in reasonable shape before Y2K ends the world :-).

Here are some items we should discuss briefly today:

(1) Classification of the preproposal:  ITR/EWF+HCI (see the note from Dick
Hildebrandt -- attached) [5 minutes]

(2) Activities/timelines/budgets:  [15 minutes]

I see four areas of activity:
        1: Development of the web applications/ distributed objects.  Event model,
etc.
        2: Information modeling and mapping for the backend (links to learning
models)
        3: Design of learning/collaborative environment to be supported by portal
(including assessment / metrics?)
        4: Development of testbeds with EOT-PACI partners

I would look forward to roughly equal chunks of the budget going to these
areas.  Total a bit under $1M.

I think that areas 1 & 3 would ramp up fast.  2 would ramp up after some of
the learning issues are more well defined.  The testbeds would come up last.

(3) Other senior personnel.  [5 minutes]

I have a substantial EOT-PACI list related to the testbeds and development
of specific portal modules (see Raquell & Scotts summary dated 12-21-99
(also attached for your reference)).  Are there others I should include?

Possible Personnel list:

Spelman, Moorehouse, Clark Atlanta – Charles Hardnett
Univ Houston Downtown – Richard Alo
AIHEC – Tom Davis, Mark Trebian
NCSA – Lisa Bievenue, Scott Lathrop
SDSC – Ann/Cheryl?
Shodor – Bob Panoff, Steve Stevenson
Trace - Gilman, Vanderheiden
SDSU – Kris Stewart
Michigan – Barbara O’Keefe
SRI – Mark Schlager (evaluation)?

(4) Other Stuff re preproposal: [5 minutes]
        a) Does the event model make sense from the learning side?
        b) Can I de-emphasize 'partial ordering' -- seems not that critical an
idea, but took up a lot of discussion space.  I loved it from my youth in
math courses where we proved various things about partial ordered sets, but
....
        c) REFERENCES FOR ALL THE PIECES YOU HAVE CONTRIBUTED!!!

-- best, Roscoe

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