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Foil 4 New Directions for Tango

From Overview of Tango Alliance 98 NCSA Illinois -- April 27-29 98. by Geoffrey Fox


Several more courses and tutorials including K-12
Most recent effort devoted to making system more robust so can be deployed generally
Will be used in Crisis Management demonstration in May
Education applications include "classic guided tour" and more interestingly shared simulations
  • mechanics of springs, planets
Major new enhancements in next 4 months
  • "Active" Presentations by displaying PowerPoint (etc.) on full featured shared Java whiteboard
  • Linkage to Lotus Notes to join synchronous and asynchronous collaboration
  • Linkage to JDBC database backend for logging of sessions and more powerful curriculum management tools
  • More sophisticated multi-room customizable Tango (2.0) version



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