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NJEDge.Net Activity GroupsNJEDge.Net is more than just bits and bytes; it is about fostering collaboration for its members. The consortium promotes creativity through face-to-face and online presentations and project sharing which, inevitably, leads to academic fraternity. Activity groups allow members to have a continued dialogue with colleagues from other institutions on topics that relate to their experience in teaching with technologies. At times the members will approach NJEDge.Net to coordinate the formation of a committee or working group and at times NJEDge.Net foresees the need to bring members together to evaluate and assess developing new technologies. NJEDge will routinely send out a call for proposal to vendor partners, or appoint a member from one of the colleges and universities as chair to initiate a web conference symposium. NJVid
Through open source programs that provide authentication and authorization, and the repository architecture and a huge repository core located at NJEDge.Net, NJVid will provide faculty and organizations the ability to segment the video according to their needs. Cyber Infrastructure: Advanced Computing Technology (CI-ACT)CI-ACT is the newest NJEDge.Net working group organized to promote and facilitate an understanding of advanced computing technologies and develop methodologies to share high performance computing resources among the NJEDge.Net. Whether one’s interest lies in the physical sciences, life sciences, social sciences or the arts as an educator, researcher or simply have a professional development goal, HPC is likely to play an increasingly prominent role in academic life. CI-ACT's mission is to promote HPC for the NJEDge.Net community- it is not restricted to the research universities. Co Chair: Les Michelson, UMDNJ Call for Participation Data Resource Group (DRG)The Data Resources Group focuses on a wide variety of issues and topics of interest to Data Network Managers and will hold regular meetings at participating member institutions. Sample topics include: Router and gatekeeper configuration standards required for effective use of the videoconferencing portal; Configuring router's and firewall's to help manage virus attacks; general traffic shaping techniques; as well as vendor presentations on specific topics of interest to participating members. Co Chairs: Frank Aversa, NJIT Distance Learning Academic Advisory Board (DLAAB)The Digital Learning Academic Advisory Board (DLAAB) plays a leadership role in bringing together the collective expertise of faculty to stimulate distance learning initiatives and to promote the meaningful infusion of technology into higher education curricula. The focus of DLAAB is on educational technology, that is, on issues related to teaching and learning, faculty development and support, and curricular innovation. Co Chairs:Patty Kahn, PhD, Montclair State University Educational Activities Task Force (EATF)The Educational Activities Task Force is responsible for identifying and facilitating activities and events that address the institutional-wide interests of a broad range of audiences on the impact of technology on academic and administrative environments. Chair: Ron Loneker, Jr., College of Saint Elizabeth K-20 InitiativeThe NJEDge.Net K-20 Initiative brings together member institutions and innovators from primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities, libraries, and museums to extend new technologies, applications, middleware, and content to all educational sectors, as quickly and connectedly as possible. Co Chairs: Matthew Conforth, Passaic Valley High School Network Authentication Working Group (NAWG)With the rapid growth of online academic resources and services, the need for a secure and simplified federated access to these resources was realized. A workgroup was formed to coordinate efforts across the NJEDge.Net membership to provide a forum for gathering and exchanging information to develop and deploy a statewide standard-based Federated Identity management infrastructure. The group is comprised of enterprise directory analysts and other technical staff working with administrative system applications with an interest in user authentication and application authorization. Video Resource Group (VRG)The Video Resources Group (VRG) brings educators together to share expertise in applications of video in an academic environment. The group sponsors workshops, conferences, videoconferences, and other professional development activities. Co Chairs: Bob Gerdes, Rutgers University Voice Services Group (VSG)The Voice Services Group (VSG) brings voice network managers together from member institutions to explore the expanding range of voice-oriented services and technologies, providing a forum for regional meetings and discussions about the evolving needs and requirements for services in this area and evaluate the implementation of new technologies such as Voice-over-IP using the NJEDge.Net extranet backbone, participate in pilots and test trials with selected new technologies in this area. The working group will also serve to provide input and advice regarding evolving institutional needs and requirements in the voice services area. Co Chairs: Peter Teklinski, NJIT Archive PagesThe Original: NJEDge.Net Activity Group Web Page |
Through a $1 million three year grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), William Paterson University, Rutgers University and NJEDge.Net launched NJVid, a project that creates a statewide digital video repository and portal with tools and services, providing "lectures on demand," licensed commercial videos, and locally owned videos for use by member partners. Three major consortia representing most educational information organizations throughout the state VALE (Virtual Academic Library Environment); New Jersey Digital Highway, the statewide cultural heritage consortium; and NJEDge.Net, the statewide networking consortium will incorporate and extend their video resources and services in this strategic initiative. William Paterson University, Rutgers University, and eight other institutions including universities, community colleges, a high school, a county public library system, and a museum will serve as initial testers of this model integrated resource. NJVid will utilize a variety of cutting edge, open source strategies to serve large and small organizations and thus support all New Jersey citizens where they live, with what they need.