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Online sources of information on KTLN

AT&T/York Telecom KTLN Web Site
WireOne KTLN Web Site

The KTLN listservs maintained at KET are a good way to keep in touch with the other members of the network. Online discussion threads, postings of problems, and news of events are all shared openly. Anyone who is interested in what we are doing—even if you are not on the network—is invited to sign up for the listservs.

Online sources of information on videoconferencing equipment and technology

If you would like to investigate more deeply into the equipment and technology used for videoconferencing, check out the following sites.

Vtel Corporation
Polycom Corporation
Tandberg Corporation

One of the best how-to sites we have seen is the Videoconferencing Cookbook.

The Center for Rural Development’s regional network, Centernet, brings vast new telecommunications capabilities to 40 counties in Southern and Eastern Kentucky. The network features both Internet services and high-quality videoconferencing that allows individuals to communicate across long distances with both video and audio contact.

Several new technologies for videoconferencing have appeared in recent years, many of them geared toward desktop conferencing systems. While KTLN has selected the Vtel system to ensure compatibility and to minimize support and maintenance problems, it is very likely that in the next few years other systems will be incorporated into the network.

A great information resource on compressed video is the Distance Education Clearinghouse. In addition to details about the Wisconsin Compressed Video Network, it has links to networks and directories worldwide.

Pacific Bell has established a very good videoconferencing reference page with a glossary of terms that deal with the technology.

Other web sites of interest

Mary Boaz, director of the Kentucky Academy of Technology Education at Murray State University, has established a web page for the Kentucky Academy of Technology Education (KATE).

The state of Iowa is in the midst of completing a network very similar to KTLN, but using a fiber-optic network of much greater bandwidth.

Kinko’s has been setting up an extensive network of small videoconferencing centers across the country.

Texas A&M has a very informative web page for its Center for Distance Learning Research.

Now that we have moved beyond the Star Schools-funded phase of rapid growth, we expect individual schools and others to begin to look for other funding sources to assist in setting up new sites or finding ways to use their current systems in better ways. We will try to keep an active and updated list of possible grants and other support for that purpose. Beginners might want to investigate the following links:

The U.S. Federal Register

The Office of Post-Secondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education