DCU Center - Worcester, MA - October 3 - 4, 2006    DCU Center Worcester, MA October 3 - 4, 2006 Home Agenda Registration Location Lodging Parking Sponsors Speakers Sessions How to Exhibit Exhibitor Floor Plan Contact Us About Us Keep Me Posted! Registration / Continental Breakfast Tuesday 8:00 AM Speaker(s): test speaker Keynote: Enabling Growth Through Technology Sponsored by RedDot Solutions, A Hummingbird Company Tuesday 9:00 AM Today's higher education campus is more competitive then ever. The number of graduating seniors is declining while the number of higher education options is growing. Institutions are faced with the challenges of growing enrollment, keeping students and raising funds for future growth while competing with the new onset of online universities. Creating an effective online campus can be a key to success. Understand how the web can help increase your recruitment initiatives, keep your students engaged and active while on campus and maximize alumni relations to continue the relationship. The web is a primary communications tool for recruiting new students, supporting fund raising efforts, communicating with alumni, and retaining current students, faculty, and staff. It is imperative that your web properties get the right message to the right audience at the right time, and stays consistently branded with content that is up to date and accessible. Speaker(s): Darren Guarnaccia Vice President of Technology RedDot Solutions Break & Exhibits Tuesday 10:00 AM Converged Telecommunications Infrastructure in a higher education environment, impact on education and operations. Track: Infrastructure to Support an Online Campus Tuesday 10:45 AM This presentation will discuss the process of designing and implementing a campus wide infrastructure to support the many new services being deployed onto the data network, from cabling and fiber optics to VOIP and Digital Video. The discussions will focus on the new converged network incorporating voice, data and video for educational content, distance learning, online campus, communications and collaboration. Speaker(s): Lewis Moretsky President The Upton Group Case Study: Democratizing the Web Publishing Process, Presented by University of Rhode Island Track: Online Tools and Technologies Tuesday 10:45 AM Corporations often institute strict guidelines for publishing content to their Web sites. Consistency is a very important issue to these businesses, so straying from the standardized procedure is discouraged – or even forbidden. In a university setting, however, it is critical for the students, faculty, researchers and staff to be able to provide and access information in a timely manner AND tap the creativity they bring from their respective areas of expertise. Allowing content providers to share knowledge quickly and easily via the Web has become vital to managing and growing a successful college or university. In this session, Trent Batson, Director of Informational and Instructional Technology Services at The University of Rhode Island (URI), will reveal his institution’s solution for improving its content authoring, maintenance and production processes – and more efficiently managing its large-scale, multi-site Web presence. With more than 15,000 students and about 3,000 faculty and staff, URI has turned to a Web content management system to democratize its Web publishing process. Dr. Batson will detail how URI’s WCM system will automate hundreds of Web sites, to enable 200+ diverse content providers to collaborate more effectively even as the number of sites and Web pages continue to proliferate. He will discuss how sharing and reusing content will broaden the base of content contributors, and vastly improve the efficiency of communicating via the Web – all with minimal IT intervention. Speaker(s): Trent Batson Director of IT University of Rhode Island Lunch & Exhibits Tuesday 11:45 AM Emerging Trends in Classroom Webcasting Track: Infrastructure to Support an Online Campus Tuesday 12:40 PM Colleges and universities are increasingly looking to technology to help them boost retention, increase enrollment, and attract top students and faculty. Mark Samber PhD of Sonic Foundry will discuss emerging trends in classroom webcasting, including: How to evaluate different webcasting technology solutions, the impact of webcasting on student learning, ways to reduce education delivery costs as media adoption grows, integration of webcasting with other media, like course management systems and podcasting, and creative webcasting applications beyond the classroom. Speaker(s): Mark Samber, PhD Sonic Foundry, Inc. Use the Web Effectively to Recruit, Matriculate and Retain Students Track: Online Tools and Technologies Tuesday 12:40 PM Today more than ever, colleges and universities need the Web to deliver relevant information and interactive services to students and their families, faculty, staff, alumni and the greater higher education community. The Web also has evolved into the first and most important point of contact between schools and prospective students. If a site doesn’t capture high schoolers’ attention, they’re more than likely out of reach. To succeed in using the Web to recruit, matriculate and retain students, as well as reach out to everyone else involved in a campus community, schools must learn to harness the Web to their maximum advantage by creating compelling sites, building online community and making the whole process of managing sites easier. This presentation will showcase real world examples of colleges and universities who “get it” when it comes to using the Web effectively, including: Showing how content management systems can support best practices for web content creation, editing and approvals. Offering tips and techniques for turning school websites into recruiting and communications engines. And exploring when, why and how to incorporate web technologies, such as blogs, student journals, web calendars, RSS feeds, discussion forums, automated web alerts, online registration and social networking. Speaker(s): William Rogers CEO Ektron, Inc. Case Study on Security Track: Infrastructure to Support an Online Campus Tuesday 1:30 PM Learn how to effectively manage these important aspects of most, if not all, colleges and universities: Security, Systems, and Control operations. You must ensure a safe and convenient campus for your school's community. Speaker(s): Timothy Chiacchira Dartmouth College Four Letter Words: How wiki and edit are making the Internet a better learning tool Track: Online Tools and Technologies Tuesday 1:30 PM A Wiki can be thought of as a combination of a Web site and a Word document. At its simplest, it can be read just like any other web site, but its real power lies in the fact that groups can collaboratively work on the content of the site using nothing but a standard web browser. The Wiki is gaining traction in education, as an ideal tool for the increasing amount of collaborative work done by both students and teachers. Students might use a wiki to collaborate on a group report, compile data or share the results of their research, while faculty might use the wiki to collaboratively author the structure and curriculum of a course, and the wiki can then serve as part of each person's course materials. I'll show how using the wiki has improved collaboration and data collection in several courses, and transformed a well-known science education website by allowing the teachers who use it to collaboratively author and edit its content. Participants will also learn about the range of wiki tools available, from free, web-based tools to enterprise solutions that can serve an entire digital campus. Speaker(s): Stewart Mader Sr Instructional Technologist for Life Sciences Brown University Security in an Open Campus Environment Track: Infrastructure to Support an Online Campus Tuesday 2:20 PM Speaker(s): Ken Pappas 3Com / TippingPoint A Synergistic Approach to Content and Technology: Utopia? Track: Online Tools and Technologies Tuesday 2:20 PM When it's time to take on a Web project, who leads? Should the communications team run the project or is it better suited within the IT department? Many colleges and universities struggle with this question. The best answer is often found in the middle: strategic teams of content and technology experts charged with taking on Web projects on behalf of the institution. In this lively and interactive panel discussion, several content and IT experts from Tufts University will discuss how Tufts uses a synergistic approach to produce big results, and how to jumpstart this kind of collaboration on your campus. Speaker(s): Georgy Cohen Web Content Specialist Tufts University Teresa Loftin Senior Web Application Tufts University Meghan Mandeville Web Content Specialist Tufts University Naomi Marr Associate Director, Web Communications Tufts University Peter Sanborn Director Tufts University Moderator: Jeff Ernst Vice President, Marketing FatWire Software Break and Exhibits Tuesday 3:00 PM Consult with the Consultants Tuesday 3:30 PM Registration / Continental Breakfast Wednesday 8:00 AM From Idea to Roll-Out - University of Arkansas' Success in Growing an Online Presence - Sponsored by RedDot Track: Infrastructure to Support an Online Campus Wednesday 9:00 AM Speaker(s): Chris Nixon University Webmaster University of Arkansas Power Panel - Making the Transition to an Online Campus Track: Online Tools and Technologies Wednesday 9:00 AM Moderated by Bill Washburn, VP of Business Development for CrossIntegration. This power panel, which will consist of five executives from a variety of companies, will discuss the transitioning to an online campus and how colleges/universities should incorporate certain types of technology into their system to create an online campus. Speaker(s): Bill Washburn, PhD Vice President of Business Development CrossIntegration Break & Exhibits Wednesday 10:00 AM Why Won't Students Read? - A High Tech Solution to a Low Tech Problem, Sponsored by Taylor Associates Track: Infrastructure to Support an Online Campus Wednesday 10:45 AM One of the chief complaints of teachers and professors at all levels is that students don't read the assignments. At the lower grades, we chalk this up to a lack of responsibility. By the time students reach college, we expect more from them, so why do we still face the same problem? In this session, we will explore some of the reasons why students don't read, and how improving their skills can improve their performance. Speaker(s): Vicky Tarbell Director of College & Adult Education Reading Plus / Taylor Associates Case Study - How the University of Maryland University College built the largest online university in the U.S. - Sponsored by Ephox Track: Online Tools and Technologies Wednesday 10:45 AM Speaker(s): John van Antwerp University of Maryland University College Managing Multiple Sites - Give each department/campus a platform for communication Track: Online Tools and Technologies Wednesday 11:30 AM Even at a small liberal arts college, the challenge of managing Web communications for the entire institution is virtually impossible for one office to effectively conquer. The solution: Empower departments to manage their own Web presence by providing them with the appropriate tools, knowledge, and incentives to succeed. The roadblocks: Institutional inertia, apathy toward/ignorance of the importance of the Web, varied levels of familiarity/comfort with technology, resistance to “conformity,” fear of limiting academic/creative freedom, and many, many others. In this session, we will discuss the wide range of challenges that we face while trying to provide departments, programs, offices, and individuals with the tools and knowledge to manage their own presence on the Web, and how to find success in the face of those challenges. Speaker(s): Robert Clockedile Managing Editor of Web Communications Colby College Unlocking Key Solutions to IT Infrastructure Challenges Track: Infrastructure to Support an Online Campus Wednesday 11:30 AM Failure to adopt a modular standardization as a design strategy for Network-Critical Physical Infrastructre (NCPI) is costly on all fronts: unnecessary expense, avoidable downtime and lost business opportunity. Standardization and its close relative, modularity, create wide-ranging benefits in NCPI that streamline and simplify every process from initial planning to daily operation, with significant positive effects on all three major components of NCPI business value-availability, agility and total cost of ownership Speaker(s): Kevin Costello Senior Government Account Manager American Power Conversion Lunch & Exhibits Wednesday 12:20 PM Help Desks: From Evaluation to Implementation Track: Infrastructure to Support an Online Campus Wednesday 1:00 PM This session gives some insight into the process of evaluating to implementing a Help Desk Solution for your IT organization. The talk will list the typical issues that occur when an IT organization attempts to organize and prioritize their support operations and how to make a successful purchase and implementation. A good Help Desk software solution can often force better organization and process into an often overwhelmed IT organization. Speaker(s): Scott Vanderlip President Internet Software Sciences Round Table Discussion Track: Online Tools and Technologies Wednesday 1:00 PM   Platinum Sponsor Silver Sponsor Bronze Sponsor Associate Sponsor Copyright � 2007 Exgenex Inc.