SynBERC:MIT/Calendar/2007-3-20

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Anyone in the synthetic biology community is welcome to attend.

Tuesday at 12pm

32-G449, MIT

Topic of discussion

Natalie Kuldell will lead a discussion on education in synthetic biology including the following topics...

  • What curriculum exists (and an open discussion of their efficacy)
  • What communities would benefit/find usefulness in the materials
  • What content should be taught (a big topic)
  • How to best convey material (comic 2.0 vs web tutorials vs SB majors vs textbook etc.)
  • What's holding us back (maybe...this might be part of all the rest of the topics and doesn't need a separate header).

Remote participation

  • Reshma 16:44, 13 March 2007 (EDT): On 3/13/2007 we managed to have video but no audio. We're working on getting mikes placed around the room so that you can hear the discussion. Also, the video feed seems to sometimes be shut off. We're not sure why but we'll try to make sure it is on prior to the discussion.

Video

Mark Pearrow of CSAIL TIG has set up Kiva with essentially always-on media streams of a webcam in the back of the room and the video of anything connected to vga port 1. Additionally, audio is captured from a lapel mike stored in the cabinet at the back of the room (on which the webcam is perched). Mark recommends using VLC to connect to the two streams: 

http://xibalba.csail.mit.edu:8080 (main camera/speaker)
http://xibalba.csail.mit.edu:8081 (slides from laptop input 1)

VLC on Mac OS X cannot open two media streams simultaneously, so Mark suggests making a duplicate copy of the VLC application with a name like 'VLC 2' and using it to connect to the second stream.

Chat

To submit questions and comments live during the lunch, visit the chat room and type in that window. (You need an OpenWetWare account and you need to enable chat in your preferences (top right hand side of browser window.) We'll have a laptop open to the chat room during the lunch (eventually we might simulcast this on a screen).

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