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The Venue is the World: CENIC Helps SFJAZZ Share Music with Everyone

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Learn how Mount Allen shares musical experiences with the public through his role at San Francisco Jazz (SFJAZZ), which uses CENIC infrastructure to livestream performances to classrooms and libraries across the state.

Adaptive Teaching and Learning: Artificial Intelligence in the K-12 Environment

VCOE's Julie Judd and Dana Thompson address using AI in the K12 classroom at CENIC's Biennial conference "The Right Connection," touching on adaptive teaching, administration, and privacy.

Wireless on the Edge: Connecting Hard-to-Serve Areas

Hard-to-reach areas may require wireless edge networks to connect to a middle-mile backbone. Tradeoffs in frequency, license status, and power can make it challenging to determine the best solution.

Responding to disasters: the CENIC community’s role in response and recovery

Fires, floods, earthquakes, and now pandemics have become part of the landscape for Californians in this second decade of the 21st Century.

The Broadband Infrastructure Grant (BIG) Identifies and Connects Schools to CalREN

Categories K-12 Equity & Access

The Broadband Infrastructure Grant (BIG) Identifies and Connects Schools to CalREN

Val Verde School District Broadband Network Provides Case Study for Closing the Digital Divide

Categories K-12 Equity & Access

A public-private partnership to provide internet connectivity for residents in the Val Verde Unified School District (USD) serves as a model case study for broadband deployment to hard-to-reach populations.

Network Traffic Analysis Shows Changing Activity Patterns During COVID-19 Pandemic

Even as campuses, schools, libraries, and cultural institutions have closed amid stay-at-home orders, CENIC’s networks have remained a vital part of the Internet ecosystem for online learning and community engagement, remote access to research data and specialized computing facilities, academic medicine and clinical care, and work-from-home operations.

Understanding Network Impacts of Increased Online Learning

While COVID-19 is creating unprecedented uncertainty, Research and Education Networks such as CENIC's CalREN will play an important role in supporting our educational institutions as they increasingly move to online learning. CENIC has prepared this information as a resource for members who have moved to, or are contemplating moving to, online instruction.

The Kids Are Online — and Alright: Unexpected Benefits of Broadband Access

Categories Healthcare K-12

Teens, especially in underserved areas, benefit from Internet access in terms of physical and mental health, and social and political connection. CENIC’s conference served as a valuable venue for Camille Crittenden to incubate her ideas, present preliminary concepts, receive valuable feedback, and gauge community interest.

CENIC and Alameda Peer to Connect Students to Saildrone and Berkeley Lab

A new SFI agreement between CENIC and the City of Alameda is a model for local governments that wish to connect technology and R&D companies in their region with a state’s research and education institutions.