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Given by Geoffrey C. Fox at Federal Web Consortium Meeting at NPACI All Hands Meeting San Diego on Jan 27 1999. Foils prepared Jan 31 1999
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This is one of a set of presentations for a meeting before NPACI All Hands Meeting arranged for Federal Web Consortium
This talk describes TangoInteractive Collaboration and Distance Learning System

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1 Collaboration and Training with Tango-Interactive
2 Distance Learning with Tango
3 TangoInteractive Features and Strategy
4 TangoInteractive in Education and Training

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Foil 1 Collaboration and Training with Tango-Interactive

From TangoInteractive in a Nutshell Federal Web Consortium Meeting at NPACI All Hands Meeting San Diego -- Jan 27 1999. *
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Tango is a fully Web integrated
system that can share general client side applications, web pages and output from databases and other servers
TangoInteractive is being deployed to support:
Distance Education and Training which links asynchronous and synchronous modes with database or web server backend
  • With EOT, teaching computational science at HBCU; High School classes on Java; Internetics Certificate
Collaborative Visualization Research and Management
  • NCSA group developed link of Tango to collaborative visualization from CAVE to PC
  • NCSA Biology Workbench made collaborative
Deployment sponsored by DoD HPC Modernization Program and NCSA Alliance
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Foil 2 Distance Learning with Tango

From TangoInteractive in a Nutshell Federal Web Consortium Meeting at NPACI All Hands Meeting San Diego -- Jan 27 1999. *
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From TangoInteractive in a Nutshell Federal Web Consortium Meeting at NPACI All Hands Meeting San Diego -- Jan 27 1999. *
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Links Interactive (synchronous) and self-paced (asynchronous) collaborative models
  • Integration of the Best of Web Browsing, Lotus Notes, CUSeeMe
Runs on Windows 95,98,NT UNIX (Irix, Solaris, Linux)
Supports multi-language shared server and client applications in Java, Javabeans, C++ and JavaScript (W3C DOM)
Supplement existing very general tools (audio-video conferencing, chats, whiteboard etc.) by specialized applications to support particular collaborative activities
  • Education and Training: support completely particular course development models
  • Management: Distance Briefings
  • Research: Link to particular PSE's (no experience yet)
Upgrade core technology in areas such as browser independence, security, multiple community support, archiving
Improve User Support and documentation
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Foil 4 TangoInteractive in Education and Training

From TangoInteractive in a Nutshell Federal Web Consortium Meeting at NPACI All Hands Meeting San Diego -- Jan 27 1999. *
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Substantial Experience -- starting 4th semester of classes given twice a week from Syracuse to JackSon State
Feb 6 will start Middle and High School Java Academy with sites in Boston Houston and Mississippi
Today is second day of CEWES sponsored training in OpenMP given to 6 sites around the country from OSC
Will support 3 features of selected authoring Models
  • Shared Web-based Curricula including telecursor and shared scrolling
  • Database backend with XML Templates
  • Archiving including MPEG (and lower resolution) audio/video recording of lecturer
Initially Powerpoint and general HTML Pages including shared Java Applets
Then WebCT, and Cornell Workshop like enhancements for glossaries, notes, quizzes
Finally Macromedia Authorware (To be scoped out)
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