Composing an Internet2 Music Event

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Composing an Internet2 Music Event

• Colleen Wheeler Christianne Orto

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Manhattan School of Music

• International Conservatory of Music (1918)
• BM, MM and DMA degrees in Classical Jazz Music
• 845 Students from over 40 countries
• 400 Students in Preparatory Division (5-17)
• 2000 Students in NYC Outreach
• 1700 Students in Distance Learning
• 250 Faculty
• 400 Public Concerts/Year

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MSM Distance Learning History

• 1st Conservatory in United States to utilize
  videoconferencing for Music Performance
• 1996 (H.320) 1.5 Mb/sec
• 1999 Began collaborations with Columbia
  University on Abilene network
• 2002 Affiliate Members of Internet2
• 2003 (H.323) 1.5 Mb/sec
• 2005 Abilene Connectivity (15 Mb/sec) and growing!

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Classical and Jazz Distance Learning Applications
at MSM

• Master Classes
• One-on-one teaching
• Clinics
• Workshops
• Coachings
• Composer Colloquia
• Sectionals

• Educational Community Outreach
• Professional Development
• Recruitment
• Remote Auditioning
• Telementoring
• Humanities Exchanges

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MSM Distance Learning Programs

• Masters at Manhattan Online
• Music Bridges K-12 Faculty-driven music Programs
• MOVE Music Outreach Videoconference Exchange
  (student teaching artists)
• Virtual Music Studio (young professional
  musicians)

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Manhattan School of Music

• Internet2 Applications in Higher Education

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Zukerman Interactive
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Manhattan School of Music New World Symphony

• Michael Tilson Thomas

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Broadway LocalExploring the nitty-gritty of a
musical theater career and the auditions it takes
to have one
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Migrating K12 Programming to Internet2
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2004-05 K12 Programs

• American Music-Heath, Ohio
• Afro-Cuban Ensemble Coaching- Ottawa, Ontario
• Intro to Jazz-Arlington, Texas
• Music, Melody, and Me-Long Island City, New York
• Choral Coaching-Thornton, Colorado
• Saxophone Sectionals-Ardsley, New York

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Wheatons Profile

• Four-year, private liberal arts college
• 1,550 students
• 400-acre residential campus between Boston, MA
  and Providence, RI
• Female seminary in 1834 co-ed in 1987
• Close, collab student-faculty relationships

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Wheatons Partnerships

• OSHEAN
• Luck! Geographical gift
• Doubled our bandwidth for less and gained I2
• OSHEAN VIEW
• RINET IVID-L
• Internet2 K20
• The Boston Consortium workgroups
• NERCOMP special interest groups
• Colleagues, colleagues, colleagues!

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Wheatons Network

• LAN
• Gigabit Ethernet backbone
• 2500 ports
• 10/100 switched to desktop, campus-wide
• Internet connectivity
• Internet1 20 Mb/sec burst-able to 30 Mb
• Internet2 30 Mb/sec burst-able to 45 Mb
• Capped at 45 Mb/sec total of I12 (h/w limit)
• Wireless small-scale deployment
• Traffic management, packet shaping, firewall

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Internet2 at Wheaton

• All H.323 videoconferencing for content incl
• Student conversations with France
• Staff professional dev discussion series
• Remote attendance at conferences/meetings
• Music education
• Composers of Internet2
• The Slide Heard Round the World!

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Composers of Internet2

• Partnership Wheaton College, UAB, NITLE
• Open to young composers
• Winners receive
• Coaching session via video conf. with
  professional cellists, composers
• Optional re-write period
• Concert and recording for portfolio
• Monetary award

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Feedback on CI2

• I want to thank you very much for getting me in
  there to talk to other composers. It was
  wonderful and an experience I will not forget.

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The Slide Heard Round the World!

• The Slide Heard Round the World! celebrates
  International Trombone Week
• Connected U.S. trombone players middle and high
  school, college, grad students, professionals
• Community-building events included concerts,
  recitals, masterclasses, lectures
• Most were interactive, streamed live to
  Internet1, and archived for on-demand viewing
• Participation from over 200 people in RI, MA, TX,
  KS, MS, MI, PA, OH and more

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Feedback on The Slide

• Events like yours highlight why it's so
• rewarding to play a part in educational
• technology. Like I said, my smile muscles
• hurt since I was
• grinning through the
• entire event. ) What a
• great event to bring to
• kids. Congrats on the
• success!

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Dialogue

• Develop partner collaborations
• Leverage internal resources to foster
  institutional adoption
• Institute best practices

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Develop Partner Collaborations

• Evangelize!
• Target Communities of Practice
• E.g. listservs, websites, online publications,
  discipline-specific journals CILC, EEZ, My K20
• Viral, grassroots, collegial connections
• Coach through complexity
• Projects involve multiple people, functions and
  physical areas
• Help collaborators navigate their own
  organization and technologies

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Leverage Internal Resources to Foster
Institutional Adoption

• Communicate
• Align with institutional mission
• Build executive support
• Tap Stakeholders
• Build ongoing support
• Document, share and debrief

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Institute Best Practices

• Focus on relationships and content
• Define project parameters
• Articulate need, value and urgency
• Facilitate internal and external cross-functional
  virtual teams
• Compose and Improvise

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Internet2 _at_

• Manhattan School of Music
• Christianne Orto
• Corto_at_msmnyc.edu
• http//www.msmnyc.edu

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Internet2 _at_ Wheaton College Norton,
Massachusetts

• Colleen Wheeler
• cwheeler_at_wheatonma.edu
• http//www.wheatoncollege.edu