Themes from Workshop

Education Themes

  • Tool to link video, notes, people, etc. -index & searchable & participative
  • Collect best practices across MIT (& development standard procedures) and
    elsewhere-technology education
  • Eliminate black/white board approach/ transitory nature of data
  • System to aid information dissemination prior to lectures
  • Rethink classroom spaces to be configurable
  • Podcast lectures

Cross-cutting Themes

  • Study ideas & other Universities
  • Standard for: voice, video- rich media sharing at MIT
  • Portal of collaboration services
  • One- stop shopping tools available to faculty: link research groups, delivering
    lecture content
  • Make lab equipment remotely accessible across campus
  • Engage with Motorola & F Telecom labs
  • Have a name for EFFORT!

Research Themes

  • Advanced directory coupled to communication & data (pull together what exists
    today)
  • Sharable applications- any appointment, any machine, any # of parties-with
    minimal operational over head (one click)
  • Finding best practices/ commercial services for- electronic lab books, blogs

Community Themes

  • Social networking (new students, faculty) -presence & location, communication
    services (IM), Choice to be viewable, shared city of interest, advanced directory
    ("virtual greeters" for new members)
  • 1ft resolution map quest & routes (including "indoors" function)
  • System to let you create, share (or hide) your profile, track where people are &
    how to use campus
  • Tools to enable pre-admission convention (house masters)
  • Make structure access easy in living spaces/ professor's
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