Kevin Walsh CI Channel Evangelist Apryl Bailey CI Channel Creative Director March 13, 2006 SDSC The CI Channel Platform A Mobile, Scalable Video Streaming Service for Education and Science

Educational Access to the Cyberinfrastructure Community Presentation Credits Apryl Bailey, Ange Mason, Anne Bowen, Isaac our student, Diane Baxter, Jay Dombrowski, Emilio Valente, (SDSC CI Channel Group + Education Group) Jon Meyer, SDSC Synthesis Center Matt Kullberg and Dan White, SDSC User Support Erik Herz and Chris Dawson (Webcastinabox)

Educational Access to the Cyberinfrastructure Community Who we are Creative and Technical Staff at and SDSC Staff from Education, Networking, and Visualization units Key players: Apryl Bailey, Isaac Huang, Emilio Valente, Jon Meyer Key supporters: Diane Baxter and Jay Dombrowski

Educational Access to the Cyberinfrastructure Community What We Do Mobile, on remote location web casting Lecture capture for on-demand viewing Video Editing K-12 course content provider for the sciences - especially under Cyberinfrastructure Follow science in action - capture science in the making

Educational Access to the Cyberinfrastructure Community Service to the Education Community Making content from scientific presentations accessible to K-12 and public. Sharing knowledge about streaming media technology Sharing information on issues that arise through use of technology: privacy, copyright, disabilities act compliance Planning for the impact on streaming media on networks and current costs

Educational Access to the Cyberinfrastructure Community Service to the CI Enabled Scientific Projects GEON CIPRES NEES SDSC Summer Computing Institute CI for Humanities - UC Humanities Research Institute

Educational Access to the Cyberinfrastructure Community Background - LectureCast Platform Initial Study

Educational Access to the Cyberinfrastructure Community Major Assessment Criteria Multiple platform for remote clients- Mac, PC, Linux Ease of use and short workflow Quick set up Scalable Secure Multicast support Ability to add features easily Low cost

Educational Access to the Cyberinfrastructure Community High Level Overview  Equipment: camera, wireless lavalier, scan converter, video encoder  Video sources : video of speaker, laptop video from PowerPoint or other media  Centralized Streaming Server Bank  Basic preparation  Basic post-processing

Educational Access to the Cyberinfrastructure Community

Dual Channel Encoder Components WebcastInaBox Linux based Two video capture channels Any two sources: laptop screen, camera, document camera

Educational Access to the Cyberinfrastructure Community Camera  miniDV camera with svideo and Firewire  Microphone jack  AV out jack  Ability to use 120 minute miniDV tape  Accessory boot  Inexpensive example Canon ZR70  Tripod

Educational Access to the Cyberinfrastructure Community Future Enhancements MPEG H.264 Very high resolution PowerPoint and animation delivery Moderated chat Integration with Moodle and other course content management systems iCI - Podcast downloads of presentations!

Educational Access to the Cyberinfrastructure Community The CI Channel Web Page Searchable archive of videos Range of sciences represented Workshops, Seminars, Invited Talks Calendar of upcoming events Tickler notification of upcoming events Model for schools and scientific project teams

Educational Access to the Cyberinfrastructure Community Demos CI Channel at SDSC

Educational Access to the Cyberinfrastructure Community Engaging the CI Channel Focus on serving scientific research groups under CI Send to Needs and requirements driven Statement of Work Agreement of Deliverables Emphasis on sharing scientific community knowledge

Educational Access to the Cyberinfrastructure Community Thanks for Your Attention