Sample Opportunities from the Workshop

Education

• Tool to link video, notes, people, etc. -in
• System to aid information dissemination prior to lectures
• Rethink classroom spaces to be configurable
• Podcast lectures
• Collaborative Construction

Cross-cutting

• 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

Research

• 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

• 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