Session Type: Poster Session - Leadership
Accessibility must be an intrinsic part of all IT assessment, design, and implementation. Moreover, accessibility must encompass all aspects of IT, from applications to hardware and the environments in which IT is used. Institutions require policies and procedures to facilitate these endeavors. This session will discuss how to ensure accessibility.
Session Type: Poster Session - Leadership
What are our individual strengths? If we had our druthers, what work would we do? What is the organization's overall work? How do these converge? Come learn how to appreciatively maximize your staff's contributions by aligning them to both the necessary work and the work at which they will succeed.
Session Type: Poster Session - Leadership
The Appalachian College Association (ACA) LAMP initiative is the sixth-largest production implementation of Sakai in the world, based on user counts on Sakai's Web site. This session will share how a consortium of 36 small, private Appalachian colleges built a successful learning management and collaboration community.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/Library/Abstract/BeyondWhatsInItforMeShari/45860
Session Type: Poster Session - Leadership
IT priorities can be effectively linked with "big picture" educational goals by creating effective conferences and planning events. Learn how to create large team planning solutions and align goals for your institution without leaving your people behind.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/BigTeamPlanningBring/45506
Session Type: Poster Session - Leadership
WebLion is a collaborative partnership to build a content management system designed specifically for the higher education community based on the popular open source Plone platform. Using agile development practices and leveraging social networks has yielded surprising success. Institutions outside Penn State are now clamoring to join in the fun.
Session Type: Poster Session - Leadership
In 2005, Georgia State University implemented a project management office to review the projects being requested of the IT staff and to prioritize and forecast resources needed to complete them. This presentation will offer lessons learned to date.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/BuildingtheRightProj/45504
Session Type: Poster Session - Leadership
Higher education institutions by law must make programs and services accessible to students with disabilities. What does this mean for information technology groups? Representatives from universities will share their accessibility strategies and solutions.
Session Type: Poster Session - Leadership
Many institutions grapple with the challenge of developing a shared vision for academic technology. Academics may not know what's possible, while technologists may not fully understand the needs of those whom they serve. In this session, we will present a campus-wide participatory process for identifying possible priorities, mutual education, and informed decision making.
Session Type: Poster Session - Leadership
Web 2.0 applications are becoming widely used in higher education and are posing new accessibility challenges to people with disabilities. This presentation discusses a new generation of tools for designing and evaluating accessible Web applications using the Mozilla/Firefox Accessibility Extension and the Illinois Functional Web Accessibility Evaluator.
Session Type: Poster Session - Leadership
The Course Development and Web Services unit at the University of Central Florida will share lessons learned from implementing Holacracy, a practical system for achieving agility in all aspects of IT leadership and governance. Holacracy offers an organizational structure and concrete practices that fully embody agile principles.
Session Type: Poster Session - Leadership
Attendees will learn how Pima Community College organized 260 IT projects, streamlined the process by which projects are submitted, reduced the amount of time that is spent in a reactive mode, improved communications within the IT department, and created a transparent process that keeps clients apprised of IT project status.
Session Type: Poster Session - Leadership
Even the most seasoned IT professional needs constant training. How do you instill the love of lifelong learning in nontechnical support staff, at the same time moving them along the continuum toward more confidence and skill in technology support and troubleshooting? Empower them to learn, then teach them to teach other.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/NoTrainNoGainRetooli/45505
Session Type: Poster Session - Leadership
Curriculum, instruction, and pedagogy, when linked with good assessment strategies, provide excellent measures of teaching and learning effectiveness. Technology enables the use of universal design principles to address different learning styles and rates and methods of expression. The session will discuss the importance of accessible design concepts regarding assessment tools and instruments.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/OnlineAssessmentTool/45599
Session Type: Poster Session - Leadership
Today's complex workplace and demanding IT environment mandate that traditional barriers between business units, in-house IT, and vendors be replaced by partnerships working toward common goals. Learn how UC Irvine's Facilities Management and Administrative Computing staff broke down these barriers and partnered with a vendor to build and implement a flexible project management system.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/PartnershipsClientsI/45510
Session Type: Poster Session - Leadership
Using Chickering and Gamson's seven principles for good practice in education, Purdue has developed methodologies to assess the learning impact of IT services. We have created a "learning impact profile" of IT systems to guide decision making and evaluate overall health. This presentation will highlight the results of our longitudinal analysis.
Session Type: Poster Session - Leadership
Computing Services developed tactical planning in 2004 for the 200-plus staff at the enterprise level. University Libraries adapted the process for their IT group of four, and both groups have used the process for two to three years.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/RightSizingITPlannin/45577
Session Type: Poster Session - Leadership
This session will discuss how 13 University of North Carolina universities moved from a loose-knit federation informally sharing information, collaborating on IT issues, and planning for IT initiatives into a structured, shared-services alliance. Two very different universities, UNC Asheville and UNC Wilmington, will share their experiences with recent ERP implementations and other administrative IT initiatives.
Session Type: Poster Session - Leadership
Software asset management is a challenge every institution faces. This panel discussion will allow schools to share strategies for license compliance and inventory control.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/SoftwareAssetManagem/45703
Session Type: Poster Session - Leadership
Innovation and fiscal responsibility are essential to the life of any modern academic institution. With the establishment of Campus Technology Exchange, Gettysburg College established a way for departments and individuals to share ideas and dreams for technology, develop them, and implement them in an organized, supportive, and fiscally responsible way.
Session Type: Poster Session - Networking
This presentation will describe Nagoya University's Survivor Confirmation and Management Services. Available through the university's portal, the service is intended to confirm who is alive after a major disaster like a large-scale earthquake and manages the data for recovery planning. We will summarize the experiences of our disaster drill conducted in October 2006.
Session Type: Poster Session - Networking
The expectations of IT services today are 24 x 7. Knowing as soon as possible when systems are not available is the key to providing high-quality service. Automatic monitoring and staff notification are critical. Learn how University of North Carolina Wilmington implemented multiple monitoring systems to ensure system availability.
Session Type: Poster Session - Networking
To meet the power and cooling demands of modern computing and network equipment, IT organizations will either need to retrofit or relocate their data centers. This session will focus on the project and constraints of retrofitting an operational data center at Louisiana State University and discuss some power and cooling concepts.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/TheHeatIsOnFacilityC/45580
Session Type: Poster Session - Security
Good user awareness is key to good information security practice. Learn how we're working to create security awareness and encourage standards compliance at Rochester Institute of Technology through the strategic implementation of our Digital Self-Defense program's communications and training initiatives.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/AdvancingDigitalSelf/45365
Session Type: Poster Session - Security
Telecommuting is becoming an attractive alternative to expending large amounts of capital dollars for campus infrastructure expansion. What information security considerations must universities take into account when planning for support of telecommuting initiatives? This presentation will outline information security planning considerations that will assist with development of technology support plans.
Session Type: Poster Session - Security
The higher education community faces increasingly difficult issues of security in a networked world, compounded by the demands of advanced applications. Performance requirements (high bandwidth, end-to-end transparency, new protocols) are essential for the academic mission and innovation, but are not easily accommodated in current approaches to network security. The Salsa group is forging new frontiers to address these issues.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/SomeFrontiersofSecur/45509
Session Type: Poster Session - Security
The University of Washington protects its wireless networks via its enterprise credential, the UW NetID. This poster session will explore how the UW uses its UW NetID system to provide short-term credentials to guests such as library patrons and conference attendees for the purpose of wireless network access and other services.
Session Type: Poster Session - Security
Risk analysis and security policy development are essential components of an educated approach to security. This session will discuss an online security role-play scenario and policy development exercise designed to include Schneier's five-step risk assessment methodology while developing higher-level cognitive, consensus-building, communication, and decision-making skills.
Session Type: Poster Session - Teaching and Learning
Recent advances in both technology and cognitive science have given birth to new possibilities for design of diagnostic educational assessment systems effective for measuring student learning. In this session, we will present an innovative assessment design project at Arizona State University that brings cutting-edge test development models to university faculty.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/AMultidisciplinaryAp/45507
Session Type: Poster Session - Teaching and Learning
The ICT-PBL Literacy Project is a problem-based learning approach to integrating information and communication technology literacy into the curriculum at Purdue University. The instructional modules include access to information technology, problem-solving strategies, and the creation and communication of information within the context of the first-year Composition course.
Session Type: Poster Session - Teaching and Learning
Virginia Tech, Maryland, and Cambridge are collaborating on the development of an open source online student rating of instruction system that will be integrated with Sakai. This presentation will describe the collaborative development partnership, the features and advantages of online student rating systems, and the results of pilot studies.
Session Type: Poster Session - Teaching and Learning
The DiViDU video-based learning environment pays systematic attention to theory, peer-learning, and coaching in the workplace. Learning from professional practice forms the basis for competence-based learning and was used with beginning teachers and dentists. A shared knowledge basis is created as students and tutors fill a video repository with clips of their own practice.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/DiViDULearningfromPr/45508
Session Type: Poster Session - Teaching and Learning
The Open Source Portfolio (OSP), which began as a student-centered tool promoting student learning and providing opportunities for career development and reflection, also offers features that make it an essential tool for value-added assessment, program improvement, and accreditation. This session will offer perspectives from several campuses concerning these OSP applications.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/EPortfolioforAssessm/45579
Session Type: Poster Session - Teaching and Learning
Recent technical and contract issues prompted Emporia State University to evaluate its relationship with Blackboard, which included an examination of faculty use of Blackboard and the various available tools in Blackboard. Deployment-related issues will be addressed in terms of product support and faculty training.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/FacultyUseofBlackboa/45366
Session Type: Poster Session - Teaching and Learning
This presentation will discuss the findings of an analysis of an open-ended question on the ideal learning environment included in a technology survey answered by 9,000 students. A team of researchers used grounded theory to find a description of a learning environment that would be suitable for a majority of those answering the question.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/FromtheHorsesMouthSt/45600
Session Type: Poster Session - Teaching and Learning
HumaniTech links humanities and technology by combining the perspectives and skills of faculty and staff from both humanities and campus-wide resources to work across disciplines and lines that often divide the research university: research/teaching, central/local control, faculty/staff, traditionalists/innovators. HumaniTech focuses on collaboration where IT is essential to these bridge-building efforts rather than a goal in itself.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/HumaniTechBridgingDi/45578
Session Type: Poster Session - Teaching and Learning
This session will describe how to use information about the economics of scholarly communication within information literacy instruction and the reactions of differing groups of students. Assessment data and examples of materials that contextualize freely available Web resources and library resources within the flow of scholarly information will be provided.
Session Type: Poster Session - Teaching and Learning
In any educational environment, one key to effectiveness is knowing to what students dedicate their time, by identifying the tasks and actions that make up the process of e-learning. The UOC has developed a tool to measure this time investment, considering the specific characteristics of a virtual university.
Session Type: Poster Session - Teaching and Learning
This session will report on the results of an exploratory study meant to determine students' receptivity to a blended learning environment and its impact on academic performance. Unique was its focus on two sections of a large Introductory Psychology course (n=1,000), whose enrollees were mostly freshmen new to the university environment.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/OnlineorFacetoFaceHi/45581
Session Type: Poster Session - Teaching and Learning
The Iowa ePortfolio project at the University of Iowa spawned recent innovations in Web-based portfolio security and scoring. Directory structures having various security levels permit compliance with federal privacy regulations and options for open ePortfolio access to employers. An online database working alongside ePortfolios was also developed that enables electronic scoring and processing of ePortfolio artifacts.
Session Type: Poster Session - Teaching and Learning
Following a student survey conducted in 2003, Western Washington University established a Student Technology Center with the mission to provide academically oriented technology training, tutoring, and multimedia services. This presentation will describe how the center continues to tune its services to best support curricular needs.
Session Type: Poster Session - Emerging Technologies
This poster will describe the redesign of the virtual classroom using user-centered design, which helps ensure the classroom meets student and faculty needs and expectations. This iterative development process guarantees a smooth university-wide deployment of the new virtual classroom.
Session Type: Poster Session - Emerging Technologies
The Interdisciplinary Learning Community is aimed at broadening our curriculum in communication arts, fine art, and music technology. It establishes a connection for students involved in an incomplete curriculum in media sources and studies through cross-curricular assignments.
Session Type: Poster Session - Emerging Technologies
IT at Harvard Business School has a growing portfolio of projects with a fixed capacity of team members who are constantly pulled onto many projects simultaneously, making it difficult to keep up with new demands while maintaining 150 applications. Moving to Agile fixed our ongoing support issues while guiding our organization light-years forward.
Session Type: Poster Session - Emerging Technologies
Oregon State University (the Beavers) and the University of Wisconsin (the Badgers) developed enterprise-wide support systems using open source tools. Coho, OSU's help desk solution, has been released as an open source application, and demand for UW's KnowledgeBase help desk necessitated a decision regarding licensing options. This session will share perspectives and lessons learned during the development of these applications.
Session Type: Poster Session - Emerging Technologies
Many instructors are adopting clicker technology as a way to engage students during lecture. Usually, students are responsible for the purchase of their clickers. Hear how four universities standardized on a single clicker type, thereby saving students the cost of purchasing multiple products for classes that use clickers.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ClickerPickersFourUn/45367
Session Type: Poster Session - Emerging Technologies
Tacoma Community College has created an online course development process. The process is designed to support faculty by providing a clear timeline for course development, a discussion of what kind of training faculty will need to develop and teach online courses, the kind of support faculty will need, and online course development rubrics for quality assurance and peer review.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/CreatinganOnlineCour/45364
Session Type: Poster Session - Emerging Technologies
McGill University adapted its in-house automated classroom recording system to add podcasting and seamless integration with Blackboard's Vista Enterprise. The system was designed to provide students with opportunities for mobile review. Survey results will be presented to determine if students are as mobile as we think they are.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/DesigninganEnterpris/45368
Session Type: Poster Session - Emerging Technologies
Server virtualization has become a new trend in making efficient use of hardware resources. However, it is often viewed as a large-enterprise solution. Learn how to best take advantage of its features, even in less-expansive IT environments.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/GettingtheMostfromSe/45511
Session Type: Poster Session - Emerging Technologies
A growing body of research relates to the effectiveness of handheld devices in the classroom. This session will focus on results from a study at Saint Francis University to find if handhelds can effectively provide multimedia content (videos, pictures, sounds) to enhance the curriculum and increase knowledge retention among students in the classroom.
Session Type: Poster Session - Emerging Technologies
This session will report study results of a two-year project that incorporates Tablet PCs along with innovative software applications into an existing nursing curriculum to promote more active learning experiences for students and equip new graduates with health-technology and health-informatics skills. Lessons learned and findings will be discussed.
Session Type: Poster Session - Emerging Technologies
After delivering graduate courses in an asynchronous, text-based environment for 10 years, education professors at George Fox University are now venturing into the virtual world of Second Life to explore how to set up class in this new territory.
Session Type: Poster Session - Emerging Technologies
Many of the motivations for podcasting a class take on a different light when dealing with a freshman course at 8:00 a.m. The presentation will highlight a portable and easy-to-use podcasting implementation and address some of the unique challenges of using podcasting for a freshman class.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/WelcometotheSocialEf/45582
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
WSU has developed a central solution to allow departments to accept online payments from their Web sites without having to accept credit card information. A central payment site allows departmental sites to use the centrally maintained site for payments, while still keeping the look and feel of their own sites.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ACentralSolutionforE/45479
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
Designing and implementing a network, server, and application architecture for 24 x 7 Web application delivery is a must in today's demanding business environment. This presentation will cover the planning, complexities to address, and necessary steps to achieve reliable delivery of campus-wide financial, human resources, and student applications.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/Architecturefor24x7A/45459
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
Rose-Hulman is using PayPal to process tuition payments, deposits, fees, donations, and sales. From admissions to alumni transactions, we have found PayPal to be fast, safe, and secure. This presentation will cover the security, operational, and functional issues we faced during our first three years of using PayPal for electronic payment processing and will highlight its integration with SCT Banner.
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
The initial impetus for a content management system at Community College of Vermont was to rescue users adrift in a sea of information. A stolen staff laptop quickly refocused the effort on ways to store sensitive data. This session will offer tips for managing information in a secure Web environment.
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
Dartmouth College has implemented "data democracy" through the delivery of a rich dashboard as a way for development managers to identify more potential donors, more quickly, more effectively, and more productively. This presentation will describe the processes and software used, demonstrate the application, and offer new insights into the development process.
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
Most campus systems are designed by technology experts with limited understanding of end-user needs. Our portal team included campus constituents experienced in product and graphic design principles, which yielded a new kind of software system that has more in common with iTunes or Amazon than a typical campus system.
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
With systems via Web, users have to track links and keep up with changes in URL and authentication schemes. Escritorios is an in-house portal that groups applications according to the user's credentials and manages authentication between services. The process includes auditing Web applications and establishes guidelines for authentication standards.
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
All too often massive projects to replatform large-scale legacy systems do not meet the immediate needs of the institution. By building a robust service oriented architecture, RIT has leveraged data from multiple platforms to improve the user experience, without waiting for each legacy system to be ported to a new platform.
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
Using the open source content management platform Drupal, Lafayette College supports two highly flexible and distinctly different online spaces: a departmental Web site full of easily edited and highly searchable documentation, current news, and dynamic RSS feeds, and a campus-wide community space where blogging, photo sharing, podcasting, and class discussions coexist.
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
Far from being strangers to the power of search engines and knowledge bases, members of the academy increasingly demand sophistication, depth, breadth, and efficiency in retrieving localized technical support. In response, LSU developed GROK, a knowledge base with a mobile device interface, multimedia features, and a collaborative authoring environment.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/GROKAVirtualWorldofH/45601
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
The University of Sao Paolo structured a set of mechanisms for effective IT governance. This poster will present the strategies and outcomes of our initiatives to manage our complex IT infrastructure and to address the growing needs for quality IT services.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ImprovingServiceMana/45480
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
Yale University is implementing two ITIL processes: incident and problem management. This presentation will discuss our incident and problem management design projects, including the maturation of the help desk to an ITIL service desk, the benefits of clearly distinguishing incidents and problems, and measuring process effectiveness.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/Library/Abstract/IntegratingIncidentandPro/45815
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
The desktop support environment has dramatically changed in recent years. This presentation will discuss how Carnegie Mellon has adapted its support program to meet these new challenges by using a proactive work-group approach that leverages new and existing infrastructure.
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
The Open Podcasting Module represents community source software at work. Requirements to add podcasting capability to Blackboard software were developed collaboratively by more than 20 institutions worldwide. This session will recount how two schools negotiated a win-win contract with a vendor while keeping the end product open source.
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
UC Irvine's Academic Personnel Systems Recruit tool provides Web-based faculty recruitment processes for the entire campus. Learn how applicants apply completely online and how all applicant documents are made available to faculty search committees, reducing administrative overhead and increasing the ability to attract the best candidates to our campus.
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
Rose-Hulman uses PayPal for online payment processing, including tuition, deposits, fees, donations, and sales. From admissions to alumni transactions, we have found PayPal to be fast, safe, and secure. This session introduces the security, operational, and functional issues we faced during our first three years of using PayPal and highlights its integration with SunGard Banner.
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
Universities are seeing an increased demand for 24 x 7 IT operations. Temple University operates in 24-hour mode for both its help desk and student lab services. We've learned that "tech around the clock" does not mean only extra hours; it opens a new set of unexpected challenges and rewards.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/TechAroundtheClockEx/45512
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
Making collaborative and social computing accessible can be extremely problematic. Federal regulators do not view "cutting edge" as an exemption from providing services to students with disabilities. This presentation will propose a plan for resolving accessibility issues for wikis, podcasts, and blogs. The plan applies to future tools yet to be deployed.
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
How can schools leverage IT expenditures using proprietary portal software? Many desire the support and security it offers, yet seek a way to share resources to get the most from their limited budgets. By joining together to build one affordable, extensible portal solution and then sharing that code, our schools are offering a shared source model.
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
The University of Rochester has embarked on a multiyear project to implement the university's URinfo data warehouse in line with the vision of the data warehouse as the ubiquitous interface for administrative systems reporting and analytics.
Session Type: Poster Session - Enterprise
RIT's financial aid self-service application uses an open source service oriented architecture to provide students with a view into the financial aid process via the RIT student portal. Learn how open source projects, including the Java/J2EE Spring Framework and XFire SOAP services, support reusable business and data access objects.
Session Type: Poster Session - Information Futures
Web sites are a critical resource for communicating with our community. Sites are created, evolve, and often disappear when projects end. This session will examine the issues regarding the preservation of our institutional Web site from library and technology perspectives and will propose strategies for maintaining Web site persistence.
Session Type: Poster Session - Information Futures
Frequent use of mobile devices does not mean that students or instructors are ready for mobile learning and teaching. This presentation will offer an overview of potential instructional uses, benefits, challenges, and implications of mobile computing/communication devices on campus.
Winner: 2007 Award for EDUCAUSE Quarterly Contribution of the Year. Award sponsored by SunGard Higher Education, An EDUCAUSE Platinum Partner.
Session Type: Poster Session - Information Futures
This presentation will address the challenge of how to connect a variety of image systems and software tools into a coherent interface for teaching, learning, and research. We will review existing image systems, discuss interoperability issues, and report on a model project to connect the open source Madison Digital Image Database (MDID) system with other systems and tools.
Session Type: Poster Session - Information Futures
Brigham Young University's Copyright Licensing Office is dedicated to promoting copyright education, securing permissions, and increasing legal compliance. This session will cover several tools developed to accomplish these goals, including a university copyright policy, an online tutorial, a resource manual for faculty, a helpful Web site, and databases to process permissions requests.
For more information, see:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/DevelopingaCampusCop/45660
Session Type: Poster Session - Information Futures
This poster session will explore how faculty can add quality content to build online courses to use for student discussions and group projects. Faculty can use subject-specific online database articles, e-journals, e-books, and other tools to update professional knowledge and expand student learning. Copyright solutions will also be discussed.
Session Type: Poster Session - Information Futures
A common belief is that the quality of streaming media is so low that the quality of the original video is unimportant and does not hinder its effectiveness or current and future usability. ResearchChannel has been dealing with streaming video quality for 10 years and will share practical tips for production, digitizing, and streaming.
Session Type: Poster Session - Information Futures
All digital collections are not the same. Image capture, processing, classification, and retrieval depend on many factors. The University of Central Florida Libraries manages multiple digital collections, each a little different from the others. This session will illustrate how these differences drove our decisions, from selecting equipment to metadata schemas, with positive results.
Session Type: Poster Session - Information Futures
This session will present a social networking content gadget to promote content reuse and distribution in higher education. This SNC gadget automatically creates a social networking group based on the content and produces a ranking of the most highly evaluated content.
Session Type: Poster Session - Information Futures
The Dutch Webstroom community of experts managed to leverage the uptake of streaming media in the Netherlands. This presentation will share the activities of Webstroom, the lessons learned as the community was formed, and the insight of experts working together in pilot projects and with communities abroad.