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

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ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS

The next networking event will be on May 26, Wednesday, at Skysong.  We will have lunch ($15) and inXsol will be our presenting company.  More details to come.

The February 18^th, 2010 meeting of GAZeL took place at SkySong.  Announcements were made by Bobbie Kraver in the absence of the President.  This was followed by a short presentation by Ted Kraver concerning the striker being proposed to create a Digital Curriculum Institute in conjunction with Arizona State University.

Amy Weibel Ph.D gave a presentation on assessments that match the curriculum being taught in K-12.  The information was well researched and developed a sequence that should be followed when assessments and curriculum are being written. 

This was a very interesting presentation.  Dr. Weibel has had experience in this field at Grand Canyon University, University of Phoenix, Pearson, and many other companies and educational institutions. At this time she is a consultant.

The next networking and informational meeting of GAZeL will take place on Thursday February 18, 2010 at Skysong at 11:30 AM -1:00 PM. The speaker will be Amy Weibel and she will speak on

Assessment Design and Development And Curriculum Development for Online Distance Learning.

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Our next networking event will be presented by ABLE on Thursday, October 29, at 11:45 am.  Flypaper is sponsoring this event.  It will be located at the 2nd floor conference room at Skysong and lunch will be provided by the Wildflower Bread Co.  Registration for live and web/audio event will be available soon; live attendees pay $15 for lunch.  

 For any questions, please contact Bobbie Kraver at 602-944-2324 or bkraver@qwewst.net.

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The meeting began a little after noon in the third floor conference room of SkySong.  Alex Devereux, GAZeL president, welcomed the people in attendance both at SkySong and on-line.  He thanked Cox for the use of the audio line, iLinc for the video hosting, SkySong for the use of the facilities and Flypaper for giving the presentation.  He also read a brief statement from Duke Merhavy of ABLE, the company that sponsored the lunch.  

    Pat Stoner, Georgianna Marie were introduced as well as Don Pearson who gave most of the presentation.  Don presented ways in which the Flypaper software saved money and time for the user.  Pat compared Flypaper and Power point and Don showed the rich interactive content that Flypaper affords the user.  He also showed how all people can deliver content using this system because it is simple and fast.

    There was a short break so attendees could get lunch from the buffet supplied from the Wildflower Bread Co. and then the presentation continued.  

    There was  a demonstration of the many choices available in the software from pictures to language and Don pointed out that this could be used in many languages.  

    After the official presentation there was a time for Q&A and then the meeting was officially closed and the attendees could and did network.   
    
This was an interesting meeting and GAZeL thanks all attendees for coming.  The next scheduled meeting is on Thursday, October 29, 2009 at SkySong in the 2nd floor conference room.  The title is “THE CLASSROOM OF THE FUTURE” and will be presented by ABLE.  

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SUMMARY OF THE MARCH 12, 2009 GAZeL

Networking event at SKYSONG

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GAZeL is proud to say that our events this past year have been very interesting. The presentation at SKYSONG on March 12, 2009 was thought provoking and the building with the view of the mountains is beautiful. Paul Skiera Ph.D. spoke on how SKYSONG was developed and how ASU came to be so involved in the world of entrepreneurship. He had a powerpoint presentation to show the stages of the buildings and the programs that are offered. Dr. Skiera is a professor at ASU and also is the Business Development Manager of Sebit, a company producing curriculum software. He is currently Director of Technology-Based Learning and Research, an educational design, content and professional development center at ASU.

Our other speaker was David Alexander Ph.D., Director of the Virtual Training Center. Dr. Alexander began his career as a kindergarten teacher and rose to the position of principal. He was Curriculum Director, and assistant Superintendent in the Roosevelt Schools. From there he went through a vast array of experiences in education and joined Cisco System’s Educational Marketing Group in 1998. Currently Dr. Alexander is the Director of the Virtual Training Center, a non-profit, public benefit corporation dedicated to providing Entrepreneurship Training in economically challenged areas throughout North America.