WebQuest: Successfully Planning, Designing and Implementing Telecommunication
and Building Technology in Schools
With
Applications to New and Existing Construction
July 11-13,
2001, Madison, Wisconsin
Understand the
Impact of Telecommunications on the Design of Schools
As a result of the recent explosion of
instructional technology, the need to plan for appropriate technology in school
buildings has never been greater. Building wiring for voice and data in schools
is a new issue facing architects and engineers as well as school administrators
and facility managers. Many school buildings now require multiple
communications systems for cable TV, computer data networks, telephone/voice,
building controls, emergency signaling and security systems. All these systems need to be integrated to
create an efficient building, one that provides the best environment for
learning. The choice of systems and the potential for integrated systems is
complex. In addition, the potential for
wireless systems adds another dimension to the process of designing and
specifying technology. This course will offer the fundamentals of
telecommunications design with specific attention to the impact of
telecommunications systems on educational delivery and school building design
and construction.
Thursday, July 12, 2001
8:30 – 10:00 Trends in Telecommunications, School
Building Design and Facility Management & Operations
This
opening session will outline the trends in the telecommunications industry…
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federal
telecommunications laws and regulations
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The Telecommunications Act of 1996 has the potential to
change the way we work, live and learn. It will affect telephone service --
local and long distance, cable programming and other video services,
broadcast services and services provided to schools. |
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In Year Three, the Schools and Libraries Division (SLD)
received more than 36,000 applications from schools and libraries across the
country requesting approximately $4.72 billion in E-rate discounts. |
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evolution
of industry standards
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IEEE 802.3 Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision
Detection (CSMA/CD) Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications |
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10Mbps -> 100Mbps -> 1,000Mbps - >10,000Mbps
-> ? |
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Ethernet
802.11 Wireless |
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1Mbps
->11Mbps -> 54Mbps -> ? |
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http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,289893,sid9_gci341007,00.html |
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Practically Networked has provided practical,
easy-to-understand help for small network builders since early 1998.
The site currently serves over 1.3 million page views to 143,000+ visitors a
month with traffic growth of 15-20% per month |
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http://www.practicalnetworking.com/pg/wireless_networking_bkgrounder.htm |
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construction
trends
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The average public school building in America is forty-two
years old and was not designed to meet the demands of current and future
technology. Renovation to support technology often requires changes to
building structure, such as wiring and electric capacity, air conditioning
and ventilation as well as security. |
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Communities across the country are struggling to address
critical needs to renovate existing schools and build new ones. School
construction and modernization are necessary to address urgent safety and
facility needs, to accommodate rising student enrollments, to help reduce
class sizes, to make sure schools are accessible to all students, and to
modernize buildings so they are well equipped for the 21st century. |
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The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational
Technology (OET) develops national educational technology policy and
implements this policy through Department-wide educational technology
programs. |
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http://www.gao.gov/new.items/he00041.pdf (see
page 18) |
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F.W. Dodge Historical and Forecast Data. National
Clearinghouse for educational Facilities (NCEF) receives data from F.W. Dodge
on public K-12 construction in the United States. |
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A revitalized interest in education facilities sparked a
record $36 billion in spending on school and university construction in 2000.
And over the next three years, spending on new facilities, additions and
modernization of existing buildings will continue to reach new heights,
according to American School & University's 27th annual Official
Education Construction Report. |
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Public school districts in the U.S. spent $21,157,484,000
on construction projects completed during the 2000 calendar year. Of this,
almost $9.4 billion (44.4 percent) went into the design and erection of new
schools; the balance was spent on enlarging (29 percent) and upgrading (26.6
percent) existing buildings. |
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Graphic of U.S. K-12 Public School Needs for facilities,
technology and educational programs. |
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Graphic breakout of U.S. K-12 School expenditures totaling
$334B for FY97/98. |
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"big
picture" and "blue sky" scenarios
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Opportunity for school districts to build the next
generation of "technology rich" and sustainable, hi-performance
schools. These are facilities that improve the learning environment while
being an integral part of it and offer opportunities for life-long learning
in science, math, technology, architecture, and engineering. They also save
energy, resources, and money during the 20-year plus life cycle of these
buildings that are the center of our 21st century communities. |
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impact of
telecommunications on education and the design of school buildings
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Graphic of 21st Century technology organization structure
for medium size school district. |
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Graphic of Physical to Virtual connectivity for 21st
century schools (36”x48” drawing). |
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Circa 1997, estimate by Council for Educational Facility
Planners International (CEFI) based on data from more than thirty projects,
developed simple cost estimates for technology systems based on a per-port
system. (Note ehb: Needs to be updated for current pricing and wireless
options) |
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online
information resources
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Information resources for people, who plan, design, build,
and maintain K-12 schools. National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities
(NCEF) is part of the U.S. Department of Education's Educational Resources
Information Center (ERIC). |
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Education Week on the Web. |
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Design Share is an on-line library of facility planning
information dedicated to collaboration and excellence in the
built-environment. |
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Website to provide vital school technology news and
information that meet the specific needs of K-12 educators. |
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The Classroom Technologies group in Cornell Information
Technologies is responsible for leading and supporting activities that
integrate the use of information technologies in Cornell's electronic
classrooms. |
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http://www.cit.cornell.edu/computer/instruct/classtech/design/examples.html |
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From Now On, Education Technology Journal by Jamie
McKenzie. |
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WebQuests |
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Instructor’s
website, work-in-progress. |
Edward Brzezowski, P.E., Facility Energy
Services, Inc.
10:00 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 12:00 Basic Concepts in Telecommunications
Systems
This session
will provide an overview of the components of the telecommunications and technology
infrastructure in school buildings…
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communications
now and in the near future
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The most
effective way that we use communications will be by interacting with display
devices of all shapes and sizes via wired and wireless means.... |
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Hitachi’s AirSho display projected on glass in full
daylight. |
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Organic light emitting polymer flexible displays. |
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Electronic ink that can be printed on almost any surface,
from plastic to metal to paper. And it can be coated over large areas
cheaply. |
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The VisionStation transforms 2-D computer graphics into
3-D sensory encounters |
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Next
generation technology for portable displays. |
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Microdisplays and personal information devices for mobile
information access, allow information to be viewed precisely the way it is
displayed on the desktop, while retaining the ultra-compact form factor
required to make devices truly portable. |
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Panoramic desktop and large rear-projection wall systems. |
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High-speed data communications via utility grid lines
directly to the electric outlet. |
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3rd Generation high speed cellular
communications at +144Kbps. |
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IBM’s personal area network research. |
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Berkley’s microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) work with
the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on pervasive and
autonomous sensing—Smart Dust.... |
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Computers reproduce information at almost no cost. A push
is well underway to invent devices that manufacture at almost no cost, by
treating atoms discretely, like computers treat bits of information. This
would allow automatic construction of consumer goods without traditional
labor, like a Xerox machine produces unlimited copies without a human
retyping the original information. |
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building
systems/subsystems
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White paper on building control systems migrating from
dial-up to network based systems. |
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Graphic illustrating the various components of web-based
facility management for multiple buildings/sites. |
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Graphic illustrating the evolution of building controls
systems from proprietary to “open” platform systems. |
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integration
of facility, technology and educational program needs
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Graphic illustrating how “real-time”
building data from the school building’s mechanical, electrical and plumbing
systems can be brought into the curriculum through web-browsers using
WebQuests and How Things Work concepts. |
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Graphic animation showing how an
electric meter and the concept of “energy” can come to life presenting useful
and often difficult to obtain information anytime, anywhere. |
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Link
to temporary website for work-in-progress, bringing a school building’s
geothermal physical plant and “open” read-only data to life on the web. |
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"big
data pipe", point-of-delivery, space allocation
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Circa
1997, White paper describing the fundamental concepts of taking a special
needs, inner city, school building’s aging infrastructure into the 21st
century. |
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Circa
1997, White paper on network-based digital video surveillance systems to the
web-browser. |
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voice/data/video
cabling systems
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Graphic of the front of a classroom showing the various
types of A/V and Internet connectivity and power options. |
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Graphic of main
and intermediate distribution frame (MDF/IDF) enclosures for retrofit
applications with limited space. |
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Graphic of IDF
closet in a Middle School with wall racks and electronics serving classrooms
with direct 100Mbps switched outlets. |
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http://www.fes-nj.com/EnergyLab-MTBE/Bayshore-IDF2026-051801.gif |
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Graphic illustrating a low cost way to use digital
modulators on a building’s coax cable plant to create a internal TV studio. |
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Graphic showing a way to build mobile distance learning
classrooms for a school with limited funds. |
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dual/multiuse
opportunities
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Link to a web site describing the concept of bringing LIVE
data from the field into student, teacher, technician and facility
personnel's desktop or portable PC via a virtual representation of a physical
3 ring organizer... complete with indexed and hypertext'd web support and
resources... |
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Graphic illustrating how the local and wide area network
can be used to improve communication and maintenance requests in a typical
school district via a web browser. |
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wide and
local area networks
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building
and campus backbones
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Graphic showing comprehensive maintenance for a typical
classroom unit ventilator connected to the building control network and
resources of the local and wide area network. |
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Graphic illustrating the concepts of “Agent technology”
and how it can be applied to facility/enterprise management applications with
network based controls and systems. |
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Graphic snapshot of Internet Use and Forecasts, IP
everywhere... |
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http://www.fes-nj.com/InternetSnapshot/InternetSnapshot2001.gif |
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Link to InfoSec and InfoWar website... |
Edward Brzezowski, P.E., Facility Energy
Services, Inc.
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
http://www.fes-nj.com/UofW-Madison/IntegTelecomm071201-ehb.htm
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