From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:20 AM
Subject: ChronoZoom live today!
To: Faculty Faculty <faculty@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Grads <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Ugrads <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>, CCC Council <councilccc@cra.org>
ChronoZoom is VERY cool!
From: Rane Johnson <ranej@microsoft.com>
Date: Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 8:22 AM
Subject: RE: ChronoZoom live today!
To: Rane Johnson <ranej@microsoft.com>, Michael Zyskowski <Michael.Zyskowski@microsoft.
I wanted to share with you the launch of ChronoZoom yesterday. As I have shared with many of you before, ChronoZoom is an open-source cloud service community project dedicated to visualizing the history of everything. Big History is the attempt to understand, in a unified, interdisciplinary way, the history of cosmos, Earth, life, and humanity. By using Big History as the story line, ChronoZoom seeks to bridge the gap between the humanities and sciences an enable all this information to be easily understandable and navigable.
Last night we officially launched at the opening of the NCCE conference. The blog has a hyperlink to share on facebook if you want to share on your community links. We have gotten a great response and a bunch of partners to begin working with us after launch. This is a free tool made by the academic community for the academic community with the support of Microsoft Research Connections. We hope you will share it with your teachers and students. We would love to hear their feedback, once they experience ChronoZoom, at the bottom right they will see Take the Survey. In this survey they will vote for features, help us with navigation and help us prioritize the next set of capabilities in the tool. We hope to have 500,000 responses by end of the summer to guide us in our development. To learn more about the tool and the partnerships please open the Blog link below. You will also find links to the tool, tutorial, user guide and lesson plans. We hope you enjoy the experience.
Website: http://www.chronozoomproject.
Tutorial Video: http://research.microsoft.com/
Launch Blog: http://research.microsoft.com/
Guide: ChronoZoom Quick Reference Guide
Lesson Plan: ChronoZoom User Guide and Lesson Plan
The Chronozoom release crossed the wire yesterday at 11 am ET. Here’s the link: http://www.prnewswire.com/
Have a great day!
Thank you,
Rane Johnson-Stempson
Education & Scholarly Communications Principal Research Director | Microsoft Research Connections | Cell +1.425.457.3665 | Office +1.425.421-3447