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Track 4

Changing Desktop Support to Increase Enterprise Reliability

Friday, April 23, 2004
8:30 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. SESS33

Chris Blasen, Manager, ECM Group, The University of Iowa

Steve Carneol, System Administrator, The University of Iowa

The University of Iowa has moved from a central hands-on desktop management system toward a centralized automated remote management system for imaging, deployment, and maintenance of desktop computers. The political and technical challenge is to create a system that distributes management responsibility and control to collegiate partners.

Comprehensive Campus Streaming Media Services: How to Build It So They Will Come

Wednesday, April 21, 2004
4:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. SESS12

Christopher Blaire Bundy, Senior Learning Technology Consultant, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Cidney Freitag, eLearning Consultant, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Les Howles, Senior Instructional Design Consultant, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Christine Lupton, Manager, Transforming Teaching & Learning Through Technology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a national leader in streaming media. Establishing our comprehensive streaming media services has included setting up a technical infrastructure, coordinating grant programs and consulting services to get faculty started, developing a Web portal resource, and providing ongoing support and production services for 26 UW campuses.

Getting to Win-Win: Leveraging Active Directory with Campus Enterprise Services

Thursday, April 22, 2004
2:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. SESS24

Brendan Bellina, Identity Services Architect, University of Southern California

This session offers a review of recent successes (and failures) and lessons learned at the University of Notre Dame implementing a Microsoft Active Directory 2003 infrastructure that works cooperatively with non-Microsoft technologies to offer campus authentication, authorization, and group services.

IT Nirvana: One Solution For Three Problems

Thursday, April 22, 2004
9:30 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. SESS58

Simon A. Kissler, Executive Director, Indiana Higher Education Telecommunication System (IHETS)

Kyle Pierce, Sr. Applications Engineer, Indiana Higher Education Telecommunication System (IHETS)

Securing wireless communications, access to our enterprise/student system, and services to off-campus users seemed like three daunting tasks until we discovered that one solution addresses all of them. Using interesting VPN design we leverage one system and one-time customer training for all three problems, with more on the horizon.

Managing Digital Assets: A Collaborative Campus-Wide Exploration of Infrastructure and Applications

Wednesday, April 21, 2004
2:15 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. SESS04

Lynn A. Johnson, Assistant Dean for Informatics and Innovation, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Louis E. King, Digital Information Architect, Yale University

The University of Michigan Office of the Provost is collaborating with faculty and staff from diverse UM schools to develop a digital asset management system that allows faculty and students to easily and conveniently access numerous and varied media types, thereby meeting a myriad of teaching and learning needs.

Postconference Resource

Moving Your Network Operations Center in 12 Hours or Less

Thursday, April 22, 2004
10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. SESS41

Carol Sabbar, Director, Computer Services, Carthage College

James Walsh, Network Administrator, Carthage College

If you need to move your network operations center or data center, following some simple guidelines can minimize down time and headaches. Hear how Carthage College moved its network operations center in less than 12 hours and restored e-mail and Internet access in 4 hours!

Partnering for Adoption: Understanding the Challenges of Laptops in the Classroom

Thursday, April 22, 2004
11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. SESS45

Angel Hernandez, Manager, Learning Spaces Development, ITaP, Purdue University

Kevin Wood, Lead Software Architect/Developer, Purdue University

An increase in students with laptops and a campus-wide wireless infrastructure introduce new challenges to Purdue University's classrooms. Learn how central IT teamed with faculty and vendors over the past two years to ensure that mobile computing will enrich the learning experience.

PKI: A Technology Whose Time Has Come in Higher Education

Thursday, April 22, 2004
8:30 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. SESS16

Mark Franklin, Director of Computing Services, Dartmouth College

PKI technology addresses many of higher education's increasingly urgent needs for cyber security. This session presents a vision for PKI enabling strong and universal digital authentication, signing, and encryption applications in higher education and describes Dartmouth's production deployment as a practical example of PKI at work.

Postconference Resource

Shibboleth: Federated Identity Management

Friday, April 23, 2004
9:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. SESS37

Renee Woodten Frost, Director, Technology Transfer and Outreach, Internet2

Shibboleth, a standards- and Web-based inter-institutional authorization architecture and software, enables federated resource sharing. This session will provide an overview of Shibboleth and federation concepts and next steps for institutions. This presentation is supported by the NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI)-EDIT Consortium of Internet2, EDUCAUSE, and SURA.

Postconference Resource

Slaying the Giant: 300 Classroom Technology Systems

Wednesday, April 21, 2004
3:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. SESS08

James R. Gregory, Manager, Classroom Technical Services, University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota embarked on a $7,000,000 program to bring advanced data-projection capability to 300 classrooms. The challenge: installing easy-to-use systems while reducing maintenance costs and improving classroom uptime. The solution: networked classroom control technology allowing metacontrol of all classrooms from a central help desk.

Postconference Resource


 
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