From: "Swisher, Bob" <bswisher@ou.edu>
To: "'it-fyi@listserv.ou.edu'" <it-fyi@lists.ou.edu>
Subject: it-fyi: OU School of Music a success at Internet2 meeting
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 08:43:05 -0500
NORMAN -- The School of Music at the University of Oklahoma was chosen to
make a Fine Arts presentation on Oct. 12 at the Internet2 Fall Members
meeting in Seattle, Washington. OU's was one of only five schools across
the United States selected to perform at the event. Internet2
(http://www.internet2.edu/) is a consortium of over 160 universities that
utilize the high-performance network advanced applications to meet emerging
academic requirements in research, teaching and learning.
The School of Music's presentation showcased high-end video conferencing of
a violin master class. Felicia Moye, OU associate professor of violin,
taught William Khanakov, a bachelor of music candidate, Samuel Barber's
"Concerto for Violin" from Seattle while Khanakov was in Norman.
"Internet2 videoconferencing technology provides to the School of Music an
extraordinary opportunity to develop musical and academic programs of
instruction for a wide of range of educational and professional settings,"
said Kenneth Fuchs, director of the OU School of Music. "Through this
technology, we can reach out to students, professionals and music
afficianados of all ages in virtually any geographic region of the United
States and abroad. This is a dynamic and emerging technology, and we
embrace the opportunity to incorporate it into our educational programs. We
are pleased to present this technology at the Internet2 conference in
Seattle, and the School of Music acknowledges and appreciates the support of
EPSCoR, the dean of the OU College of Fine Arts, and the senior vice
president and provost for their support."
"The incredibly high bandwidth of Internet2 allows us to do things that
before were impossible on the internet," said Brian Shepard, Visiting
Assistant Professor of Music and coordinator of the School of Music's
Internet2 presentation. "We can send and receive "real-time" full-motion
video and CD-quality sound simultaneously. This allows a student and
teacher to be in remote locations yet still see and hear each other well
enough to make critical aesthetic judgments. We are really the first ones
in Oklahoma to try this sort of thing and we have been pushing some of the
network equipment to the max. Fortunately, we've got some great people over
at DCTS (OU's Department of Computing and Telecommunications Services) who
have been working with us to isolate and fix the bugs. We couldn't do it
without them."
-- Kristen Klaver, Facilitator, Advanced Networking
Applications.