Internet2 Applications in Teaching and Learning

Ann Doyle serves as Internet2 Manager for Arts and Humanities Initiatives. Her accomplishments include working with campuses across the nation to produce master classes and performance events enabled by high-speed networking. She has been the executive producer of the two largest collaborations in the performing arts over Internet2; "Virtual Halloween at the Rialto" on Georgia State University's campus, and "Cultivating Communities: Dance in the Digital Age" on the University of Southern California campus. Ann has been a featured speaker at the Association of Performing Arts Presenters' annual conference in New York, the Internet Society's Annual Conference in Stockholm, the International Council of Fine Arts Deans and numerous U.S. campuses interested in the application of Internet2 in performing arts and humanities education. Before joining Internet2, Ann's focus was on coordinating technology services for the arts and humanities schools at the University of Michigan. Ann has a Master's degree in Higher Education Administration from the University of Michigan

Dr. Jeffrey H. Huberman has worked in communication and fine arts as a teacher, administrator, stage director, producer, and author. He received his bachelor’s degree in speech and theatre from the University of Pittsburgh, and from Indiana University he received a master’s degree in directing and a doctorate in theatre history and criticism. He has taught at Salem State College, the University of Massachusetts, and the University of Texas. He has been at Bradley University for the last nineteen years serving as Professor of Theatre Arts, Associate Dean, and Dean of the Slane College of Communications and Fine Arts. Dr. Huberman has directed more than 70 theatrical productions for both academic and professional theatres and is the author of two books and four plays. Over the last three years he has been active in promoting faculty and student use of Internet2 for teaching, research, and creative production facilitating collaborative projects between Bradley University and California State University at Los Angeles, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Central Florida, Bowling Green State University, the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, and the University of Waterloo in Canada. These Internet2 initiatives include projects in screenwriting, hand drumming, theatrical production, intellectual property law, and graphic design.

This fall, Dr. Brian Shepard joined the faculty of the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California as Assistant Professor of Pedagogical Technology. At USC, he oversees the implementation and development of technology into the music curriculum, and teaches courses in Music Technology, Digital Audio and Composition. Prior to his arrival at USC, Brian held a similar position at the University of Oklahoma School of Music. He has been recognized nationally for his pioneering research and work into the teaching of music through the "next-generation" Internet backbone known as Internet2, and has been featured on CNN's "Technology Week in Review" and NPR's "Morning Edition." Brian is a former member of the music editorial board for MERLOT (Multimedia and Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching) and served as the principal percussionist of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic Orchestra for 13 years.

Leonard Steinbach has been Chief Information Officer at The Cleveland Museum of Art since 1999, having previously served as Chief Technology Officer at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (NY) since 1996. At Cleveland, he is currently also Project Director for a national demonstration project bringing lifelong learning in the arts through interactive broadband technology to older and disabled persons at residential facilities and in their homes. His division is responsible a full range technology activities including distance learning, web site, and gallery interactives. He is immediate Past President of Museum Computer Network (MCN) and a member of the Board of the National Initiative for Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH). The Cleveland Museum of Art is the first art museum in the country to become an affiliate member of Internet2.

Dr. E. Michael Staman will moderate the panel. Dr. E. Michael Staman is currently a member of the teaching faculty at Macon State College and holds the Peyton Anderson Chair in Information Technology, one of the positions created as a result of the University System of Georgia’s Eminent Scholar’s Program. His work is a continuation of over thirty-five years in both the private sector and the higher education community in capacities ranging from sales and marketing with Systems and Computer Technology, Inc. to the Vice Chancellor and CIO of the University System of Georgia. During the 1990’s he was the President of CICNet, Inc., the network owned by the Big-Ten universities as part of the initiative to build NSFNet, the forerunner of today’s Internet.

He was the creator of a $1.4 million NSF-funded initiative entitled “Rural Datatafication” which focused on extending the Internet to difficult-to-serve locations, and he has twice given testimony on access to the Network in rural America to the U.S. House Committee on Space, Science and Technology. He founded of the Monterey Futures Group, which wrote the initial specifications for what is now known as the Internet 2 project and is the founder and current Co-Chair of the EDUCAUSE Net@EDU working group on Integrated Communications Strategies.