Greater Arizona eLearning Association

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The meeting was held at SkySong in the Global Conference room. Ted Christensen chaired the meeting, introducing Duke Merhavy of Able. Duke gave an overview of the meeting which will be held on September 28th, 2010 in room 301.

This will be an 11:30 -1:30 meeting about E-Rate, and will be followed by two full day workshops on October 5th and January 25th. Details will follow on www.gazel.org Ted Kraver gave an overview of eSATS’ plans for this year. A document is being prepared that covers the necessary steps that must be taken to bring the K-12 schools into the modern world of education.

Dee Andrews Ph.D from the Air Force Research Laboratory was introduced as our main speaker. His topic was Simulation Based Mission Training of pilots. This has been very effective. The research has shown that retention is one problem that must be addressed. Also the experience and intuition of the pilots must be considered. This type of training can be altered to fit the needs of k-12, post secondary education and job training.

We were able to have interested people see the presentation through a donated link with iLinc and hear the presentation through a donated Cox phone line.

The meeting was very interesting. There was standing room only and SkySong was very gracious, letting us use the conference room free of charge.

The meeting was started with a welcome from the President, Alex Devereux and announcements concerning legislative activities by Ted Kraver.  Alex introduced Henry Rung and the presentation started.

Henry Rung President of InXsol presented his new research based training application using internet based voice recognition at the GAZEL May 26th luncheon at ASU Skysong.  Since 1997, inXsol has been a work-for-hire company developing medical, aerospace, gaming, psychology and other simulation based training for Fortune 500 companies. The10 person staff is supported by off shore resources.

They recently won SBIR development grants from one of the large number of government organizations requesting innovative research from small business that will result in new technology that can be exploited commercially. They were awarded a Phase I demonstration and feasibility grant followed by a much larger Phase II to create real commercial products. They are 25% through this development that will be finalized by August 2011.

The Command Plan Project is for the National Institute for Environmental Health Systems. It will train the incident commanders on how to manage multi-disciplined teams of first responders addressing incidents ranging from chemical spills to weapons of mass destruction. Using Phoenix and NYC fire fighters as their initial test subjects, this system trains know how to coordinate and make decisions, while minimizing hazards themselves.

The current simulation is a view of the incident scene from a truck with the commander using radio microphone to bring in and manage resources. The simulation includes avatar voices of the entities in the field. It replaces current simulated command centers such as a Chevy truck where a Phoenix fire commander sits talking to cubical based people reading scripts