FieldsLive 

FieldsLive is a streaming system that gives viewers the ability to watch events held at the Fields Institue live from anywhere in the world. Developed as a new way for the Institute to work together with our partner universities and the scientific community, FieldsLive makes Fields events accessible to a global audience. To enhance the viewing experience, the system has two unique features:

• Personalized views: click to zoom in or out or pan from side to side. This feature is particularly useful for blackboard talks, giving viewers the ability to choose which section of the board they want to see.
• Interactive remote participation: with just a web browser, webcam, and Flash Player plug-in, participants can ask questions and make comments from remote locations, as if they were present in the lecture room. This is available for select events only (where the speaker is prepared to handle remote questions) and requires a "remote speaking permission code" which must be requested at least two business days prior to the event by sending an e-mail with your name and academic affiliation to
  

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Interactive White Board

The Fields Institute interactive white board (described and pictured below) is located in Room 332. The SMART Board™ is an interactive whiteboard that enables collaboration between someone at Fields and someone outside, as if both were standing at the same chalk board and allows both in-person and remote participants to see, share, and modify content.

The SMART Board™ 

• can be used to display one's entire computer desktop, or a specific document or program, on a whiteboard which is permanently set up in our SMART room.
• can be used to annotate by touch on a presentation one is giving to an audience in that room, or to record into a document the writing one does on the board. This can be done either with the built-in "SMART Notebook" software (which can interpret different pen touches in different ways or for different colours) or in any standard software program (which merely interprets any touch as mouse movement).
• can also be used for remote collaboration, in conjunction with either a phone call or video conference, so that users at another locationcan see what is written on the boad and can write on it themselves. This can be done either with a remote end that has a similar board or by a remote end using a regular mouse and computer screen, either by using desktop-sharing software (freely downloadable for Linux, Windows, and Macintosh) or by using a program that runs in a standard web browser.

To book time in the SMART room, please contact the Fields computing staff:

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