Tony Abbatiello

Tony Abbatiello

Distance Learning Coordinator Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES 5980 South Street Road Auburn, NY 13021-5699

Voice: 315-253-0361 x150 Fax: 315-252-8757

Tony Abbatiello tabbatiello@cayboces.org

Tony Abbatiello, Distance Learning Coordinator

Key Staff:Michael Pohl, Tony Abbatiello
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Key Staff:Tony Abbatiello, Barbara Livingston
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Key Staff:Tony Abbatiello, Linda Nichols, Michael Pohl
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Key Staff:Barbara Livingston, Linda Nichols, Tony Abbatiello

Key Staff: Michael Pohl, Tony Abbatiello
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Key Staff: Tony Abbatiello, Barbara Livingston
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Key Staff: Tony Abbatiello, Linda Nichols, Michael Pohl
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Key Staff: Barbara Livingston, Linda Nichols, Tony Abbatiello

Tony Abbatiello Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES 1879 W. Genessee Street Road Auburn, NY 13021 Phone: (W) 315-253-0361 x5217 Phone: (H) 315-622-3429

Tony Abbatiello Distance Learning

It took coordination from the hospital's business development officer and the media services manager, along with Tony Abbatiello, the distance learning coordinator for Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES and a family friend of the Shurmans.

Abbatiello does videoconferencing all the time.He started pulling pieces together.The Dome didn't have full capability, but a Syracuse University professor and students were experimenting with live Internet feeds. (Check out www.i2sports.com .) They'd be at the game shooting from five angles.Perfect.

Abbatiello headed to the hospital with his laptop, a projector and folding screen.He met with Scott Kenyon, the business officer, and soon found that the hospital Internet connections block streaming video.As the two men talked, a cardiologist overheard their plight and offered his conference room in the Physician's Office Building, connected to the hospital by tunnel.It had a cable modem.

"We took this live feed and just projected it for her," Abbatiello says."It wasn't true broadcast quality, but it was great.She was able to see it."

A nurse who came in on her day off accompanied Shurman to the conference room, outfitted with a recliner.Shurman watched what she describes as a David-and-Goliath game.Baldwinsville had never made it to sectionals and never beaten Liverpool.
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Abbatiello didn't stay for the game.After he was sure everything was working, he raced down to the Dome.His daughter, you see, is backup goalie for Liverpool.She wasn't playing when Baldwinsville scored the only goal of the game.

Shurman was ecstatic in the conference room."We were just yelling and screaming.We were in shock," she recalls.

"I was tired afterward," she admits, "but it was worth it."

Her daughter Stacey gets a surge glancing up to see her parents cheering her on from the sidelines.She knew her mother was watching the game live."At the end, I had all of the girls wave up to the press box, where I knew the cameras were."

Baldwinsville beat Bethlehem Saturday, and coordinating a live feed from the Liverpool field was not possible.So, Shurman says, she was delighted to at least see that game on videotape.Now her girls' team advances to the Class A final four this weekend.

A motion was made by John Barry and seconded by Tony Abbatiello to approve the minutes.
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Tony Abbatiello did an outstanding job spearheading the connections to the OnCenter being the local person on site.
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Tony will be in touch with Bernie regarding when we can make this trip.
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Tony indicated his BOCES was hosting a ten (10) week refresher program for people interested in sharpening their interpreters certification program skills. Tony also indicated that he has a vacancy available at his BOCES through the end of June this year.
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Tony indicated they are looking toward going to ATM as well.