EBS/ITFS in San Diego

San Diego County Office of Education

SDCOE is licensed for 11 EBS channels in the San Diego area. Transmission takes place from 3 mountaintops to serve the major population areas. At the present time, four channels transmit to over 400 schools with EBS and also supply 4 cable companies serving 800,000 homes with a main channel via fiber, along with 3 Webcasting channels. Presently, 4 EBS channels have been digitized. There are 7 licensees in the area, consisting of 1 university, 2 community colleges, 3 SDs, and the county office of education who have joined to form Sand Diego County EBS Partners Group to further the advancement of EBS for their students. When completed SDCOE will be the hub for the 24 channel system of the group. The operation center now supplies videotape playback, video server playback, live productions from both our studio and mobile production van remote, and 10 satellite downlinks to provide our programs. At this time, SDCOE uses formats from VCR to DVDs to feed their Sundance automation system. This allows for 6 channels of playback with insertion of promos and PSAs, and 18 channels of timed playback. The Leitch video server system is equipped with 3 terabyte of disk storage using a format to 10 megabytes compression for approximately 360 hours of direct server playback and an additional 7 terabytes of archive storage in DVD-ram format supplying 750 hours of program material. Due to the many formations the system is considered a hybrid of analog and digital.

There are 8 PEG in San Diego County with SDCOE being one of the “must carry.” With over 800,000 cable in homes or 80% of all households, both cable providers (T/W and Cox) have penetrated the market. Fifty one percent of households have high-speed IP.

While EBS is used mostly as “customized programming,” other technology concentrates on other programming like professional development or instruction in Spanish via web streaming and live –call in shows about homework or remotes on cable. With a staff of 15 full timers, SDCOE keeps instructional programming at the fingertips of county teachers and specialists. Heidi Schalger, SDCOE Programming Supervisor, says that EBS lets special programs to be transmitted directly to those teachers who request it. For example, Martin Luther King’s “I have a Dream” speech was used through the benefits of the closed circuit nature of EBS. Future goals in EBS as it becomes digital include pushing lessons, notices, or even emergencies directly to whatever device parents, students, and staff have access.

Tulane Premiere Dates on Research Channel

Burkenroad Symposium on Business and Society: Social Entrepreneurship: Creating Change

See the Reseach Channel on New Orleans' Higher Education Access Television

Airdates - Central:February 17 @ 10:00am & 4:00pm

on Channel 76, Cox cable, and Channel 901 Bellsouth Americast

Sometimes the world's social problems can not or should not be addressed by government. Enter the Social Entrepreneur. These innovative people have found solutions to many problems by combining their social expertise with business acumen to create new organizations that are, as London School of Business Dean Laura Tyson describes them, 'a new kind of business hero.' She defines social entrepreneurs as 'one driven by a social mission, a desire to find innovative ways to solve social problems.' The 2004 Burkenroad Symposium addresses the issue with three scholars who, having written extensively on the subject, share examples of how social entrepreneurs have changed the world.

Speakers: Art Brief, host; Lawrence Martin Chair of Business; director, William B. and Evelyn Burkenroad Institute, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane UniversitySusan Davis, founding member, Grameen Foundation USADavid Bornstein, author, "How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas"J. B. Schramm, founder, College Summit

NOETC Joins Xavier's Distance Learning Board

NOETC joins Xavier University's Distance Learning Advisory Board. Board members advise the campus on distance learning issues. Dr. Elizabeth Rhodes, Educational Technology Support Specialist, leads the charge for the group. The Distance Learning Advisory Board meets quarterly to discuss the impact of Elearning at Xavier and throughout the academic environment.

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The world of Video Bridging

For Multipoint Videoconferences, the MCU needs a mechanism to connect multiple endpoints, each operating at different parameters ...this is called TransCoding.

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Extranet article

Extranets are small networks with security measures for controlling traffic between an enclosed corporate Intranet and the wide-open Internet.
How do Extranets work? How do they safeguard the flow of information and convert it into a competitive advantage? And what everyday benefits do they offer customers, partners, and employees?
Find out in this article by Jerry Hinek, Senior Business Security Manager with SBC Services.
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Go to http://resources.thefocus.org/topic/2004/Topic_Spotlight_Extranets.pdf

What's a DS3?

- A DS3 is very similar to a DS1. The big difference is that, with a bandwidth of 45Mbps, a channelized DS3 has the ability to carry 28 DS1s (at a cost lower than just ordering 28 DS1s). It is also a High Capacity Special Access Service that will provide you with high-speed, dedicated, point-to-point lines capable of transmitting multiple streams of information. Whether you are sending voice, data, or high quality video, a DS3 can fulfill your requirements. And since it is a dedicated line, the full bandwidth will be available to you 24 hours a day/ 7 days a week.

Open Source Coding

IN this week's Chronicle, there is an entire section dedicated to open source coding. The plus it it is that it's easily shared and essentially free. It's defined by G. A. Jackson , when a programmer creates software for a computer, he or she starts out by specifying the steps and calculations that the software is to execute, describing them in a high-level language--typically C or Java, which we now use instead of the old fashioned Cobol type languages. The source code becomes open when it meets three conditions: 1. It must be written in a documented high-leve language (Java, for example) so that other programmers can understand it, 2. It must be complete, without any hidden functions and 3. others can recompile as they see fit.

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NOETC: Technology & Teaching

NOETC: Technology & Teaching

I have a definition of technology transer:
From: http://www.nttc.edu/products/guide/seca01.html, the National Technology Transfer Center, Wheeling College.
There is no widely accepted definition of technology transfer, but, generally speaking, technology transfer is the sharing of knowledge and facilities among:
• Federal laboratories
• Industry
• Universities
• Federal, state, and local governments
• Third party intermediaries
The concept of technology transfer as a practical matter becomes clearer when one understands what technology transfer is designed to accomplish. For instance, the purpose of a federal technology transfer program is to make federally generated scientific and technological developments accessible to private industry and state and local governments. These users are then encouraged to develop the technology further into new products, processes, materials, or services that will enhance our nation's industrial competitiveness or otherwise improve our quality of life.