[AG-USERS] Hello, introductions

[Huskamp, Sandra W]

Greetings from North Carolina,

I am Sandra Huskamp at East Carolina University - Greenville, NC (or down
east as they say).
ECU is a new AG node, installed and tested in October/November 2002.  

Our inaugural event, December 2002, was the first of many workshops for
middle and high school teachers in NC and Illinois - team teaching
visualization tools for use in the classroom (to renew teacher and student
interest), and focusing on the use of communications vehicles, such as the
AG, to reduce teacher isolation in rural areas. This program was funded (not
the AG) through an NSF grant, and includes such great partners as NCSA, the
Electronic Visualization Lab in Chicago, the Morehead Planetarium and
Science Center at UNC-Chapel Hill, Elizabeth City State University, UIUC -
Office of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education and The Illinois
Area 4 Learning Technology Center.  

We're introducing the AG to all faculty/staff at ECU next week, with three
open forum sessions. We are especially interested in the virtual seminars
and individual/small group collaborative opportunities that are now
available.  We participated in the Bioinformatics and Genomics seminar last
week and plan to connect to the CCS seminars soon.  ECU is a leader in
distance education in NC - so we're also very interested in our we can
appropriately use this technology in that area.

We're very excited about our AG - and already have started planning for more
nodes on campus.

Thanks,
Sandra




-----Original Message-----
From: Jennifer Teig von Hoffman [mailto:jtvh at bu.edu]
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 2:15 PM
To: ag-users at mcs.anl.gov
Subject: [AG-USERS] Hello, introductions


Hi everybody,

Since this is a new list, and we haven't before tried to gather 
non-technical AG users in this sort of way, I'm very curious to hear 
who's joined the list and in what ways you're using the AG. So, I'd like 
to encourage everybody to send a little mail by way of introduction.

As for myself, I was an early adopter of the AG in the summer of 99, 
when we were planning for the Alliance Chautauqua conference series and 
starting to bring the first few nodes online. I've been involved in 
managing events of all sizes, and am currently leading SC Global 
(http://www.scglobal.org/) and the AG Documentation Project 
(http://www.accessgrid.org/agdp/). I also manage BU's AG facility 
(http://scv.bu.edu/accessgrid/); we're still operating in a rather 
informal fashion, but playing around with the idea of eventually 
formalizing our operations, with written policies and such.

So how about you? Who's out there, and what are you involved with 
regarding the AG?

Cheers,
Jennifer Teig von Hoffman
Project Manager
Scientific Computing and Visualization
Boston University
jtvh at bu.edu