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Given by Geoffrey Fox at Alliance 98 NCSA Illinois on April 27-29 98. Foils prepared 3 May 98
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This is overview, status and near term futures
for ET Team C

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1 TANGO Collaboration System NCSA ET Team C Alliance 98 Summary http://www.webwisdom.org/papers/jsu/jsuexpt.html (Discusses use in Distance Education) http://trurl.npac.syr.edu/tango/ (includes Tango Papers and download)
2 Tango Collaboration System
3 Screenshots of Tango Teaching Tools
4 New Directions for Tango

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Foil 1 TANGO Collaboration System NCSA ET Team C Alliance 98 Summary http://www.webwisdom.org/papers/jsu/jsuexpt.html (Discusses use in Distance Education) http://trurl.npac.syr.edu/tango/ (includes Tango Papers and download)

From Overview of Tango Alliance 98 NCSA Illinois -- April 27-29 98. *
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Geoffrey Fox
Syracuse University
NPAC
111 College Place Syracuse NY 13244 4100
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Foil 2 Tango Collaboration System

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An Applet based system using LiveConnect and plugin with Netscape3 and Signed Applets with Netscape4
Supports general shared event model of collaboration where it can share applications in Java, JavaScript, C, VRML, C++ (Open Inventor), Lisp (emacs)
  • Event sharing coordinated by Java Server
Has conventional general tools
  • Audio/Video Conferencing, Chat rooms, Whiteboard
Developed for command and control where has a simple event driven simulator built in
Most extensively used in education -- especially for course between Syracuse and Jackson State
  • Using JavaScript "guided tour" WebWisdom linking to 22,000 foils

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Foil 3 Screenshots of Tango Teaching Tools

From Overview of Tango Alliance 98 NCSA Illinois -- April 27-29 98. *
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WebWisdom
Chat
Shared Browser
Audio Control
Tango Control App

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Foil 4 New Directions for Tango

From Overview of Tango Alliance 98 NCSA Illinois -- April 27-29 98. *
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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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