Agenda
8:30 a.m. – Registration Opens
9:30 a.m. – Concurrent Sessions
Green IT - Utilizing Virtualization Technologies for Greener IT Environments
This presentation is focused on the newest available virtualization technologies for servers and storage attached networks (SAN). Consolidation of servers and storage using virtualization allows for substantial savings on energy, infrastructure and many other costs. Technologies such as Distributed Power Management (VMware) and virtualization of SAN create greener IT environment as well as boost return on investment (ROI) upon deployment. Additionally, this presentation reveals some of the industry collaboration options available for academic institutions interested in teaching storage and virtualization curriculum.
- Dr. Timur Mirzoev, VMware Certified Instructor, EMC Proven Professional ,VCP, SAN/iQ, A+ certified, Georgia Southern University
View Presentation Slides here.
Millennials: Reaching and Teaching Digital Natives With Web 2.0
The Millennials are bringing more to the colleges than tattoos, flip-flops, low-hanging saggy pants that expose body parts or undergarments and iPods. They have new ways of learning communicating, collaborating and getting things done via the new Web 2.0 technology. Digital natives can Blog, Wiki, Flicker, YouTube, consume RSS feeds and use Myspace and Facebook. The speaker will explore the demography of Millennials (Digital Natives), emerging technologies, Web 2.0 concepts, and pedagogical applications of Web 2.0.
- Dr. Manoucher R. Khosrowshahi, Texas Professor of the Year, Professor of Political Science, Tyler Junior College/University of Texas at Tyler
Asking for a Second Opinion? Can You Afford Managed IT Care?
Each day is a new day with technology. Technology is full of complex stuff: “laptops, desktops, servers, etc., software, the people who are the planners, the techies who are the glue, and WD 40 who make it all work”. In fall 2008, the Dallas County Community College District embarked on a second opinion assessment with an external consulting group to help us see ourselves, our successes, and our challenges through a new lens.
- Barbara Corvey, Assistant to the Executive Vice Chancellor, Business Affairs, Dallas County Community College District
- Edward M. DesPlas, Executive Vice Chancellor, Business Affairs, Dallas County Community College District
Open Storage Innovation and Mobile Desktop Access with Security
Whether your community college is deploying storage infrastructure for administrative systems, e-learning applications, or enterprise file services, the Open Storage platform provides cost-effective, manageable, scalable solutions for educational institutions. Learn about this revolutionary approach to storage, as well as how your educational institution can deploy on campus a secure desktop alternative that provides the ultimate in campus access and mobility.
- Conrad Geiger, Sun Principal Engineer, Sun Microsystems
Technology Integration in the Classroom: How Technology Can Build Engaged Learning Environments
Come and discuss emerging technologies and how they assist teachers in encouraging collaborative learning environments. We will discuss how new technology tools help move from “teacher centered” to “student centered” classrooms. We will also share how these new tools can move to “greener” schools.
- Nancy Sturm, Education Development Executive, AVerMedia Information, Inc.
Retention Strategies and New Tools for Your Learning Management System
Tulsa Community College was very concerned that online courses still had a lower retention rate than traditional classes. In an effort to apply new tools to track and retain students having difficulties, TCC engaged in a pilot project with Starfish Retention Solutions to alert and track students using their existing Blackboard platform. Learn how this unique system can be used to help students’ persistence before you lose them.
- Randy Dominguez, Dean of Distance Learning, Tulsa Community College
- Wade Howard, Regional Sales Manager, Starfish Retention Solutions
View presentation slides here.
10:30 a.m. – Break
10:45 a.m. – Welcome Remarks from Tom Pauken, Chairman, Texas Workforce Commission
11:00 a.m. – Keynote Presentation courtesy of Convergence Technology Center
Environmental Benefits of IT Efficiency
The digital universe is expanding at an amazing rate and the Information Technology essential to this growth is now consuming resources – people, energy, materials & space – at an unsustainable rate. Significant advances in efficiency such as Cloud Computing and IT consumed as a service create exciting potential to deliver information value while minimizing consumption of human and natural resources. This presentation will examine key trends toward future IT foundations by:
- Improving operational efficiency while enhancing performance and reducing environmental impacts
- Making wise investments while setting the stage for future achievement
- Emphasizing greater agility and flexibility while reducing costs
- Dick Sullivan, Director of Enterprise IT Efficiency Development, EMC Corporation
Noon - Working Lunch and Overview of Green IT Educational Opportunities
- Convergence Technology Center
- Ann Beheler, PI, Convergence Technology Center and Vice President of Academic Affairs, Porterville College
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1 p.m. – Concurrent Sessions
Green IT - A Special Demonstration
The session will feature a hands-on introduction to Green IT and the greening of IT curriculum in general.
- Pete Brierley, Instructor, Collin College,Frisco, TX
- Bill Saichek, Instructor, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
vTSTC: Beyond a Second Life!
Ready to move past the question of… "What is Second Life?" … and to the heart of how to leverage virtual worlds for applicable teaching? This presentation will serve as an outline of how the folks at TSTC developed their virtual presence (vTSTC) and deployed their first college program entirely supported within the virtual world of Second Life.
Participants in this workshop will get an inside look at virtual world education in practice and be encouraged to ask the "Hows and Whys?". We will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of traditional distance learning methods in contrast to virtual world platforms as a delivery mechanism. The ultimate goal of the workshop will be to answer common questions in relation to virtual world education and, in turn, promote audience members to leave with a new perspective when it comes to "online" delivery.
- Chris Gibson, Associate Vice President Educational Technology, Texas State Technical College
View presentation videos: Learning Tools and VTSTC Video.
Teaching Online: Strategies for Student Success
Two Collin professors of English and Spanish will present tips to promote student success in online courses. The focus for the English session will be teaching an online composition class and the need for clarity and interaction. The Spanish session will cover special issues of teaching foreign language online. Each professor will present a 20-minute lecture with the remaining 20 minutes devoted to audience participation, questions, and discussion.
- Dr. Sandra Herron, Professor of Spanish, Collin College
- Dr. Joan Kennedy, Professor of English, Collin College
View Presentation Slides here.
Faculty Access to Supportive Technology (FAST) Team
Learn how the Dallas County Community College District through the LeCroy Center for Educational Telecommunications (the distance learning arm of the district) is working with its 3,000+ faculty members to encourage them to use social networking and multi-media applications in their online and blended courses.
- Robin Bartoletti, Instructional Designer, Dallas County Community College District TeleCollege (DCCCD)
View Presentation Slides here.
Why Recycle When You Can Eliminate Waste With TRACSYSTEMS Solutions?
Free printing and copying equals unnecessary printing and copying. The result is overflowing recycling bins and piles of documents sitting unclaimed on top of printers in libraries, computer labs, and student printing centers. This affects both the environment and the bottom line. TRACSYSTEMS helps address these issues by giving institutions the ability to generate less waste and experience lower costs with custom print management policies.
- Jeff Libby, President, TRACSYSTEMS
- Jonathan Libby, Director of Sales, TRACSYSTEMS
- Freddy Rodriguez, Director of Technical Support, TRACSYSTEMS
Create a Single Authoritative Source of Constituent Data Across Your Institution
Learn how Oracle's Higher Education Constituent Hub can help community colleges capture the student's academic progress behind the traditional boundaries of the community college and can simplify sharing the core bio-demographic attributes about constituents among systems.
Oracle's Higher Education Constituent Hub provides clean data for your enterprise. It consolidates, cleanses, de-duplicates, cross-references, governs, and shares constituent master data with administrative/academic processes, operational applications, and analytical systems across the institution.
- Selim Burduroglu, Industry Business Consultant, Oracle Corporation
View Presentation slides here.
2 p.m. – Break
2:15 p.m. – Concurrent Sessions
Green IT - Using Detailed Work Activities to Define Greenness of IT Jobs
The State of Texas Workforce Commission has asked the Convergence Technology Center to help define the greenness of Information Technology jobs. Understanding greenness begins with defining job requirements using the Texas Detailed Work Activities and establishing proficiency requirements. This segment of the Green Jobs meeting will focus on establishing the green attributes of jobs strategic to the region.
- Mike Brown, Founder & CEO, SkillsNET Enterprises, Ltd; Co-Chair, OMG-Government Domain Task Force-Skills Management System-RFI
Enhancing Online Courses with Engaging Video Clips
Dallas County Community College District faculty created a Digital Resource Repository (Repository) to enhance courses and increase student engagement by incorporating videos ranging in diversity from Civil War reenactments with interactive exercises to perfecting the writing process using our award winning techniques. During a hands-on Repository demonstration, participants take the instructional design approach to incorporating media-rich learning objectives, flash activities, and peer ideas to boost efficiency in online, hybrid, and face-to-face course development.
- Robin Bartoletti, Instructional Designer, DCCCD TeleCollege
- Alishia Nelson, Manager, Academic Partnerships, DCCCD TeleLearning
View Presentation slides here.
Protecting Student Personal Information at Education-related Institutions: Challenges and Best Practices
The session will share technology and administrative strategies for protecting the student personal data that educational institutions routinely store and transmit. Community colleges, universities, and education-related state agencies all must meet the challenge of theft of data for criminal purposes. Representatives of different organizations will present the methods they favor to keep their student data safe.
- Corbett D. Consolvo, Senior Information Security Analyst, Texas State University-San Marcos
- Louisa Hoberman, Information Security Analyst, Information Technology Services, Texas Education Agency
- Sandi Newton, Chief Information Security Officer, Dallas County Community College District
Moving Image Acquisition – Educational applications
Requirements for recording moving images and budgets for this equipment vary widely from school to school and department to department. From an obscure point-of-view camera to a full-blown studio, you need to make sure you have the right equipment to get the job done. This presentation will look at typical situations in educational environments that are recorded – live sporting events, distance learning, classrooms – and analyze the various solutions to accomplish the task. Part of this program will also be devoted to equipment and scenarios for student video production.
- Bob Roose, Regional Sales Manager, TM Television
- Chris Soltesz, Sales Support Engineer, Broadcast Production Systems Division, Sony Electronics
VMware and EMC Make Virtualization the Right Move Now
Learn to build an efficient virtual infrastructure that lets you store, protect, optimize, and leverage information—from a single e-mail to production databases. With Virtualization, colleges can provision new desktops more rapidly, consolidate servers for immediate cost savings, and provide better service with improved security. EMC and VMware, together with our solution partner INX, will discuss best practices for optimizing and simplifying IT infrastructures with virtualization from desktop to datacenter.
- Rob Johnston, Storage Specialist, EMC
- Eric Lundgren, Senior Systems Engineer, VMware
View Presentation Slides here.
3:15 p.m. – Wrap-up / Drawing
3:45 p.m. – Adjourn
