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The City University of New York and the Center for Digital Education will host its fifth annual all-day conference devoted to information technology and instructional technology. The
NO-COST conference will offer an overview of the University's key IT initiatives, an opportunity to explore how technology is changing the nature of instruction, research and administration, and an occasion to meet with sponsors and hear from IT leadership.
8:30 to 10 a.m.
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Exhibit Area Open
10 to 11 a.m. - SESSION I
11 to 11:15 a.m. - Break
11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. - KEYNOTE
12:30 to 1:15 p.m. - Lunch
1:30 to 2:30 p.m. - SESSION II
2:30 to 2:45 p.m. - Break
2:45 to 3:45 p.m. - SESSION III
3:45 p.m. - WRAP-UP
PROGRAM
KEYNOTE
Charles D. Dziuban, Principal Investigator, Distributed Learning Impact Evaluation; Professor, Educational Foundations, University of Central Florida
Widely published, Professor Dziuban is editing a book on blended learning research for the Sloan foundation, has a forthcoming chapter in the Handbook of Blended Learning Environments, as well as in the EDUCAUSE e-book Educating the Net Generation. In 2005, he received the Sloan Consortium award for Most Outstanding Achievement in Online Learning by an Individual.
SESSION I - 10 to 11 a.m.
Podcasting: Developing Audiovisual Learning Units - A Team Approach
At Queensborough, a team of developers has formed whose goal is to create educational podcasts. This presentation will include a technical demonstration showing how to locate, subscribe, create and publish podcasts; a pedagogical demonstration showing how to use literary devices to explore cultural encounters in primary historical documents; and a demonstration showing how to acquire new vocabulary in German while listening to dialogs and being immersed in images of pertinent life and architecture.
Presenters (all of Queensborough Community College):
Jean Darcy, Associate Professor, English Department
Lorena Ellis, Associate Professor, Foreign Languages and Literatures Department
Raj Vaswani, Web Programmer
Bruce Naples, Director, Academic Computing Center
Streamlining Adjunct Appointments to Improve the Faculty and Student Experience
In an environment where 50 percent of instructors are adjuncts who are often hired at the last minute, it is a challenge to meet faculty expectations for access to online services and student demands for up-to-the-minute online information about their courses. Brooklyn College will describe how it is meeting these challenges with automated systems and process re-engineering in the areas of HR eAppointments, course scheduling, budget reporting and access authentication
Presenters (both of Brooklyn College):
Mark Gold, Chief Technology Officer/Assistant Vice President for Technology Services
Alan Gilbert, Assistant Vice President for Budget and Planning
Technology: More Efficient - Or Is It?
Offering a look at how educational technologies affect the disabled and are used by disabled faculty and students, using real-life examples and personal experience in the classroom from both students and faculty, the presenters will examine positive and negative aspects of educational technologies for the disabled, as well as reviewing CUNY's legal obligations when working with the disabled. Finally, they will give an overview of technologies available for the disabled on all nineteen CUNY campuses.
Presenters:
Scott Sheidlower, Assistant Professor and Head of Information Literacy, York College Library, and Co-Chair, Disability Services Roundtable, Library Association of CUNY (LACUNY)
Sara Marcus, Adjunct Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences, Queens College
Mounir Khalil, Associate Professor and Coordinator of Disability Services, Cohen Library, City College, and Co-Chair, Disability Services Roundtable, LACUNY
Technology: When to Outsource and When to Do It In-House - A Registrar's Perspective
In our faced-paced environment, students insist on expedient, individual service, not wanting to wait two weeks for a transcript or three months for their diplomas. Registrars at Borough of Manhattan Community College, Hunter College and John Jay College of Criminal Justice will show how they shared best practices to meet student's expectations - particularly how outsourcing one service and providing the other in-house proved beneficial not only to students but also to their staffs.
Presenters:
Joan Antonicelli, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Marilyn Daley-Weston, Hunter College
Gregory Wist, Borough of Manhattan Community College
New Horizons: Engaging Technology in the Online Baccalaureate
This session will focus on the ways in which faculty teaching in the CUNY Online Baccalaureate Program have implemented Learning Objects, Inc.'s blogs, wikis and journals, and incorporated recorded lectures with audio and video streaming/podcasting through Tegrity, both being third-party Blackboard Building Blocks. Faculty will provide illustrations of their use in courses that are being taught and will discuss the pedagogical motivation underlying their choices.
Presenters (all of CUNY Online Baccalaureate Program):
William Divale, Professor of Anthropology, York College
Matthew Gold, Doctoral Candidate in English, CUNY Graduate Center
Carl Grindley, Assistant Professor of English, Hostos Community College
Joseph E. Pascarella, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Sociology, Queens College
Felipe Pimentel, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Hostos Community College
Anthony G. Picciano, Professor of Education, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center
Sylvie L. F. Richards, Media and Instructional Technologist, School of Professional Studies
Ellen Smiley, Associate Professor of Psychology, The City College of New York
Magda Vasillov, Professor of Humanities, Hostos Community College
Online Interactive Tutorials for Test Preparation
Introducing the New Interactive Tutorial for Preparing CUNY Students for the CUNY/ACT Exam
We will introduce a new interactive tutorial, created by Kognito Solutions and funded by the CUNY Office of Undergraduate Education, which is designed to help prospective and current CUNY students prepare for the CUNY/ACT exam. The presentation will include a discussion on the instructional design of the tutorial, including the approach used for improving student performance, the types of interactive activities included, the chosen user interface design and the plan for evaluating its impact.
Presenters:
Jenelle Boucher, Director of Instructional Design, Kognito Solutions
Hector Graciano, Program Manager for Undergraduate Education, CUNY Central
Hope Parisi, Associate Professor of English, Kingsborough Community College
Judith Summerfield, University Dean for Undergraduate Education, CUNY Central
Interactive Tutorials for Basic Skills and Capstone Test Preparation
We will introduce the online interactive tutorials developed at Hostos Community College to support students for basic skills and capstone test preparation. For each of the tutorials, we will show how the specific intervention has improved student test scores. Hostos has found that use of the CPE website and workshops has resulted in a substantial improvement in student performance, particularly for Task II.
Presenters (all from Hostos Community College):
Thomas Joyce, Professor of Mathematics
Richard Gampert, Director of Institutional Research
Loreto Porte, Director of Instructional Technology
E-Portfolios
e-Portfolio for Beginners
Learn how using web pages that can be edited using MS Word and a directory structure that can be uploaded into the host system, a starter kit for e-portfolios can be developed. The resulting e-portfolio student sites include a greetings page; an assessment matrix tracking general education objectives; a curriculum matrix tracking progress toward degree; a resume; and sample class assignments. Access to a sample starter kit will be provided to attendees of this session.
Presenters (all of Queensborough Community College):
Edward Hanssen, S. Lambert, Anthony Kolios
E-portfolios in Teacher Education: Same Questions, Different Answers
Implementing e-portfolios for teacher education involves asking questions - questions about pedagogy, questions about standards, questions about curricula, questions about reflection and questions about technology. In answering these questions, we're thinking and learning about what we want for and from our students and what they want, and we're also finding out how different technologies help provide different answers. This presentation will describe the investigation and implementation of e-portfolios for teacher education at BMCC, Lehman and CCNY.
Presenters:
Moderator: Joseph Ugoretz, Director of Teaching and Learning with Technology, BMCC
Minaz Fazal, Assistant Professor, Teacher Education, Lehman College
Jean Yves Plaisir, Assistant Professor, Teacher Education, BMCC
Helen Mele Robinson, Assistant Professor, Teacher Education, BMCC
Doris Grasserbauer, Director of Multimedia Instructional Technology Center, CCNY School of Education
Delivery of Web-Enabled Student Services via a Collaborative Integration of People, Processes and Technology: Success Stories from Two Colleges
BCC's One-Stop Shop eServices: Supporting Student Success While Streamlining Administrative Processes
Join us in a show-and-tell presentation of BCC's One-Stop Shop eServices (OSSES), a single sign-on application that gives students, faculty and staff access to an array of in-house developed applications: eAttendance, eGrades, eAdvisement, eZeroValidation, CPE Registration System, Text Messaging, etc. Come and see how our "smart agents" use the information collected through these systems to take actions such as sending an email to a student that says, "You were absent today!"
Presenters (all of Bronx Community College):
Ediltrudys Ruiz, Associate Director of Academic Systems
David Ling, Information Systems Specialist
James Kennelly, Executive Director of InformationTechnology
Bernard Gantt, Associate Dean of Enrollment Management
Colleen Simpson, Assistant to the Associate Dean of Enrollment
Susan Lai, Assistant Registrar
Delivering Online Student Services: A Collaborative Integration of People, Processes and Technology
Old business processes needed to yield to a web-enabled model. The technology was available but stakeholders needed to be ready for new ways of doing business. Re-engineering the outmoded service model needed the involvement and buy-in of all constituents. The GC team will discuss its process to accomplish a successful transition to an online system for student services, focusing on the collaborative planning process that was a critical element for success.
Presenters (all of the Graduate Center):
Gloria M. Barlow, Executive Director, Information Resources
Rashi Asthana, Associate Director, Administrative Applications
Vincent DeLuca, Director of Student Services and Senior Registrar
Les Gribben, Director of Admissions
Marissa Panzani, Associate Director of Admissions
IT Innovations Aiding Teaching and Research: Two CUNY Cases
Social Explorer - A Simple Tool Allowing Visual Exploration of U.S. Census Maps and Data from 1940 to 2000
Social Explorer is a new web-based tool that allows anyone to explore social and economic change in the United States using census data from 1940 to 2000 at the neighborhood (tract), county and state levels. It makes it possible to do the following: 1) Visually analyze and understand the demography of any part of the United States; 2) Explore your own neighborhood; 3) Learn about the people living around you or anywhere in the United States.
Presenters (all of Queens College):
Andrew A. Beveridge, Professor and Chair, Queens College Sociology Department
Ahmed Lacevic, Chief Software Developer, Social Explorer, Queens College Sociology Department
Jordan Segall, Chief Data Developer, Social Explorer, Queens College Sociology Department
Using the Alice 3D Environment to Teach Multimedia Programming
The presenters have developed a curriculum that uses the Alice programming environment to teach basic object-oriented concepts and then transitions students to Flash ActionScript. Alice is an authoring system that makes learning programming easier by doing two things: helping students avoid syntax errors through a drag-and-drop interface and bringing object-oriented concepts to life through its 3D environment. This presentation will highlight the experiences of the presenters in teaching and developing the curriculum.
Presenters (both of Borough of Manhattan Community College):
Jody Culkin, Assistant Professor, Music and Art Department
Chris Stein, Assistant Professor, Computer Information Systems Department
Information and IT Security - An Important Shared Responsibility
Data compromise, theft and loss affect all business sectors including academia. What can we do to protect the personal private information of our community members while continuing to support the teaching, learning and research business of the University? This presentation will give an overview of the most critical information security concerns and discuss security practices and tools our constituents can use to minimize our data risks.
Presenters:
Mark Gold, AVP for Technology Service and Chief Technology Officer, Brooklyn College
Carl Cammarata, Chief Information Security Officer, CUNY Office of Computing and Information Services
Managing the Business of Higher Education
(Note: This session is replacing The Times Are A Changin' - How One Higher Education Institution Led a Peaceful Change Management Revolution)
Today, colleges and universities face mounting financial pressures as costs rise and budgets shrink. The decentralized nature of most higher education purchasing structures prevents them from having complete visibility into and control over organizational procurement. CDW-G will offer insight and expertise on how e-procurement - the purchase and sale of products via a structured Internet-based system - enables higher education institutions to capture more comprehensive information and improve accountability for purchasing throughout the institution.
Presenter:
Joe Sartin, Senior Manager, CDW-G
Optimizing Wireless Network Management and Security
This session will provide an overview of the latest innovations in Cisco's Unified Wireless Network Solution, which is the industry's only unified wired and wireless solution to cost-effectively address the WLAN security, deployment, management, and control issues facing today's college campuses. It delivers secure, scalable WLANs with a low total cost of ownership.
Presenter:
Samir Narula, Product Specialist, Wireless, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Increasing Training Reach without Increasing Staff
Often training is the last thought for system development and implementation. Through integrating hands on training with synchronous distance learning, a single trainer can reach a greater audience without the additional costs of staff and travel. The presenter will discuss real-world experiences training diverse learners on enterprise-level systems both onsite and via distance learning. A cost comparison will also be presented.
Presenter:
Alex Yohn, Assistance Director of Education and Support Solutions, West Virginia University
CUNY Graduate Center: Intelligent Networks Case Study
As each CUNY institution moves forward into 2007, the advent of new technologies present a compelling benefit to instruction. Learn how the CUNY Graduate Center is preparing for these technologies through the implementation of a robust intelligent network foundation, and what this foundation will mean to Grad Center students. In addition, learn about some of the ancillary benefits that have been realized for the Grad Center, including a lower TCO and a better network resilience / disaster recovery posture. Finally, the Grad Center looks towards the future and some of the horizon opportunities that will be implemented to enrich the educational experience of its students and the competitive positioning of the institution. This presentation is done in collaboration with Custom Computer Specialists, Inc.
Presenter:
Jeremy Bigler, Director, Custom Computer Specialists, Inc.
Producing Dynamic Documents with QuarkXPress: A Primer
This session will explore using QuarkXPress 7 and Quark Interactive Designer to bring new life and versatility to print documents using industry-standards and a multi-channel mindset.
Presenters (both of Quark):
Chris Edwards, Business Development Specialist
Ed Lenehan, Account Manager
Back to Beginning of Program
SESSION II - 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Do-It-Yourself Podcasting
Podcasting: Learning from the Pros
In 2005, the
New Oxford American Dictionary declared "podcasting" the word of the year. Today, the
New York Times and the BBC, the space shuttle astronauts and, of course, CUNY all have podcasts. Podcast Alley lists over 25,000 podcasts. But what lessons can we learn from all the successful (and not-so-successful) podcasts? As educators, how can we make sure that our podcasts (and our students') will actually be heard - and that they will actually work?
Presenter:
Joseph Ugoretz, Director of Teaching and Learning with Technology, BMCC
Podcasting - Enhancing the CUNY Students' Learning Experience
For our piloting of podcasting at York College, we chose Speech 101, an appropriate choice for our pilot program because it was a large class (223 students) and a general requirement for the college. The results were clearly positive. We will demonstrate the technologies used, and describe results of an evaluation of podcasting for Speech 101 and preliminary results of four classes for the fall 2006 semester at York College.
Presenters (both of York College):
Michael B Smith, Assistant Professor, Communications Technology
Wenying Huang-Stolte, Instructional Technologist
Streaming & Podcasting: What Does It All Mean?
Media use in teaching and learning is becoming increasingly popular and complex as technologies and distribution methods evolve. This presentation will discuss the basic technical differences between streaming media and podcasting. Using faculty development points from Baruch's pilot podcasting program, discussion points such as intellectual property and choices involved in developing podcasts vs. streaming media will be introduced.
Presenter:
Madeleine Fix, Instructional Design Generalist, Baruch College
Transforming CUNY's Administrative & Student Services Processes: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
One of CUNY's strategic administrative goals is to realize the maximum value of CUNY's resources for the benefit of its students, faculty and staff. The CUNY ERP project will provide a new University-wide common suite of policies, processes and information systems in order to streamline its current processes and become more efficient and effective. Project Overview, Organizational Readiness and Change Management, Governance, Role of the ERP Project Office and Project Timeline will be discussed.
Presenters:
Brian T. Cohen, University Chief Information Officer, CUNY
Ron Spalter, Deputy Chief Operating Officer, CUNY
Suman K. Taneja, ERP Project Director
Mara Bianco, Project Management Office Lead
Blogging and Wiki-work: New Tools for Writing in Online Courses
Blackboard has always had the discussion board, but new tools allow new outlets for student contributions in online courses: blogs (collective or individual) and wikis. How can these tools be used effectively (and non-redundantly) in the Blackboard environment? The three presenters will focus on their uses of these tools to achieve diverse purposes in asynchronous courses offered through the CUNY Online Baccalaureate Program.
Presenters (all consortial faculty for the CUNY Online Baccalaureate):
Barbara Walters, Associate Professor of Sociology, Kingsborough Community College
William Bernhardt, Associate Professor of English, College of Staten Island
George Otte, Academic Director, CUNY Online Baccalaureate
Speech to Text: The CUNY Initiative
A demonstration of the College of Staten Island's Speech-to-Text Program including a description of available training options for perspective captionists. Share our vision for creating a cadré of CUNY captionists to provide this cost effective service for the deaf and hard of hearing population. A hands-on opportunity to experience new speech-to-text technology will be provided.
Presenters (all of the Office of Disability Services at the College of Staten Island):
Margaret Venditti, Director/Disability Services
Maryellen Smolka, Captionist/Trainer
Sheryll Porter, Assistive Technologist
Joseph Nicolosi, Assistive Technologist
Nicole Dory, Captionist
The Network Early Warning System for Increasing Student Retention
Student retention is a major priority for Medgar Evers College and the CUNY Campaign for Success. Using a customized outcomes assessment engine, the College has developed an early warning system that uses attendance, test scores, class assignments and a social adjustment index to calculate an "attrition risk score" (ARS) for students. This presentation describes the technology, the weighting of variables in the ARS, and how academic advisors are using the system to increase retention.
Presenters (all of Medgar Evers College but the last):
Gale Gibson, Dean of the College of Freshman Studies
Michael FitzGerald, Associate Provost
Andre Lake, Vice President of Professional and Community Development and Director of Title III
Douglas Walcerz, President, TrueOutcomes
Making Multimedia History
Our Investigating U.S. History Project developed twelve "labs" for various topics across three centuries of U.S history. The short presentations will focus on several topics: the challenge for faculty of finding the time and expertise to create sophisticated new media work; the issue of incorporating technology into the history classroom; the use of inquiry-based modes of instruction; and the challenge of depth and coverage in the U.S. history survey course.
Presenters:
David Jaffee, Professor of History, CCNY
Angelo Angelis, Assistant Professor of History, Hunter College
Jonthan Sassi, Associate Professor of History, College of Staten Island
Gunja SenGupta, Associate Professor of History, Brooklyn College
Fritz Umbach, Assistant Professor of History, John Jay
Queens Course Information System: Using Queens & CUNY Information to Best Advantage
A software program draws data from SIMS to present schedule information in more useful ways, allowing one to view courses by instructor, time of day, or building, amongst other features. By reverse-engineering the CUNY Portal website, the scheduling program could be used in real-time for any CUNY college. Student evaluations of faculty are presented using the Academic Senate's student surveys.
Presenters (all of Queens College):
Jonathan Bearak, University Scholar
Dean Savage, Chair, Academic Senate
Andrew Beveridge, Chair, Sociology Department
Integrating Interactivity
Clickers and PDAs - Making Teaching/Learning Interactive, Mobile and Personal
The Personal Response System (PRS, Clickers) and the Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) are now bringing instruction to new levels of personal use and classroom interaction. The Clicker is a powerful student response system that enhances classroom productivity and assessment. The PDA combines processing power with extraordinary mobility and interactivity. In this presentation, we will show how Clickers and PDAs are being used in mathematics, dental hygiene, biology and nursing classes, demonstrating the advantages both offer.
Presenters (all of Hostos Community College):
Loreto Porte, Director of Instructional Technology
Kathleen Donohue, Professor of Nursing
John Gillen, Professor of Biology
Carlos Guevara, Multimedia Specialist
George Rosa, Multimedia Specialist
Elkin Urrea, Multimedia Specialist
Tablet PCs in the Classroom: Integrating Interactive Technologies into the Traditional Teaching Environment
Tablet PCs are taking the teaching and learning experience into a new realm by improving communication and stimulating student engagement. This presentation shows how to use this device to handwrite notes, draw and highlight presentations. We will also illustrate its application in a writing class, where assignments are submitted online and the instructor makes handwritten comments on style, form and content. Methods to annotate and deconstruct reading pieces using the Tablet PC will be demonstrated.
Presenters (both from Hostos Community College):
Diana Diaz, Chairperson, English Department
Carlos Victoria, Multimedia Specialist
Converged Networks In Higher Education
Converged networks bring together cellular technology with commercial and campus-based wireless technology to provide cost-effective solutions for supporting ubiquitous network applications. Together with handheld devices, the networks form a campus community-centered system for public safety, information and community resource applications for learning and communications in higher education. This presentation will discuss CSI's plan for ubiquitous network access using a converged network and AirBaruch, Baruch's mobile phone information system.
Presenters (all but the last from the College of Staten Island):
Avi Gannon, Director Telecommunications
Bimal Kulasekara, Networks Specialist
Doriann Pieve-Hyland, Manager of User Support Services
Michael Kress, Vice President for Technology Systems
Arthur Downing, Assistant Vice President for Information Technology, Baruch College
Streaming Video Production Techniques and Workflow
This presentation will focus on the technical components of preparing video content for distribution in an online environment. Topics include techniques for recording web-based videos, lighting, sound and framing considerations. The presentation will then move on to the compression process, explaining a number of different techniques for compression and guidelines for producing web-based on-demand and live video.
Presenter:
Jason Belland, Instructional Multimedia Designer, Baruch College
Print Management: Your Campus Can Save Money and Manpower!
This session will discuss the integrated pay-for-print management system that has successfully saved campuses money and manpower! In addition, the speakers will review print security and why it is important to know your vulnerabilities!
Presenters:
Joleen Winter, Account Manager, Hewlett-Packard
Samuel Wilkens, Business Development Manager, Pharos Systems International
Enabling Business Process Change Through Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
This session will focus on the growing flexibility provided through software vendors' migration to a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), why this is instrumental in meeting the needs of complex higher educational organizations, and how to maximize the potential return on investment through business process design and continued process improvement using total quality management concepts.
Presenters:
Carlton D'Souza, Technical Architecture Sales Consultant
Thomas Ball, Portfolio Manager, Oracle Consulting
How to Increase the Level of Help Desk Support for the Higher Education Community - Lessons Learned from the RightAnswers Self-Service University Edition
As Higher Education Help Desks strive to provide better levels of support, they continuously need to adopt strategies that make their services more efficient and cost-effective. This session provides an overview of the RightAnswers self-service solution, which tailors support initiatives for students, faculty and staff to yield dramatic results.
Presenter:
Keith Berg, Vice President, Professional Services, RightAnswers, Inc.
Using Content and Creating E-Portfolios in Blackboard
Blackboard will be demonstrating the latest capabilities of the Content Management System to show how schools are creating and using content more effectively and efficiently within their course environment and many other purposes. They will provide an in-depth look at creating e-portfolios for students, faculty and staff to exchange, reuse and share individual work, as well as integrate educational and digital library content.
Presenter:
Darrin Schmautz, Regional Sales Manager, Blackboard
Class Interactivity with Handheld Response Pads
Bring interactivity to your classes with the Classroom Performance System (CPS) a real-time, interactive wireless response pad technology being used in over 600 universities. CPS is an easy-to-use response system that obtains immediate feedback from every student. You can use CPS in your classroom to provide a non-threatening environment allowing all students to participate and obtain instant results as the software scores their performance and disaggregates the data.
Presenter:
Janet Walter, NE Regional Sales Manager, eInstruction
Mobility Solutions on the College Campus
AT&T & Aruba Networks will discuss the challenges and successes in deploying wireless solutions in an urban college environment. Topics covered include deploying, securing, managing and troubleshooting wireless LANs, IP telephony and VoIP.
Presenters:
Scott Wishnow, Territory Manager, Aruba Networks
Matthew Sorensen, Application Specialist, Network Integration, AT&T Inc.
Back to Beginning of Program
SESSION III - 2:45 to 3:45 p.m.
Expanding Learning Environments: Creative Use of Interactive Media
This interactive panel presentation will inform audience participants about creative research CUNY graduate students are doing using interactive media for going beyond traditional learning environments. The intent is to briefly demonstrate three different approaches to using interactive media beyond classrooms and course management style learning environments, and to engage the audience participants in discussing their interests.
Presenters (all of the Graduate Center and its certificate program in Interactive Technology & Pedagogy):
Moderator: Joan Greenbaum, Professor, Environmental Psychology
Gregory Donovan, Doctoral Candidate, Environmental Psychology
Kimon Keramidas, Doctoral Candidate, Theater
Jesse Merandy, Doctoral Candidate, English
Self-Service Innovations
E-Voting as a Catalyst for Change (and Enabling Good Passwords)
City College held online student elections in Spring 2006, using outsourced vendor host. Lessons learned will be shared. Voter 'keys' were delivered to student email accounts, bringing attention to password policies. It motivated writing of web-based application to facilitate students securely setting new, stronger passwords. Reaction from students was very positive. We are locking all student accounts, on a rolling basis, forcing new passwords to be set to comply with new, stricter password policy.
Presenters (both of The City College of New York):
Robert Kahn, Acting AVP for Information Technology
Michael Smallis, Deputy to the VP for Student Affairs
Queens College Provides Self-Service Account Provisioning with an Eye on the CUNY Central Directory Model
The CUNY IT Steering Committee has developed policies and product criteria for a unified Central Directory and University email system. It is on this foundation that Queens College has built its secure self-service account provisioning system. This is part of the CUNY Central Directory Pilot's work with four campuses to design, prototype and pilot a new central directory model allowing schools to share authentication and authorization for their user population moving towards an integrated/federated University model.
Presenters:
James Haggard, Deputy Chief Information Officer CUNY
Thomas Smith, Software Architect, Queens College
Jeff Barnes, Deputy Chief Information Officer, Queens College
Messing With Math and Sleeping With Science: Transforming Curricular Access With Technology
Technology's dramatic role in changing teaching and learning is nowhere more evident than in teaching of mathematics and science to students with disabilities. Traditional avenues of access have broadened to encompass a large field of access technologies enabling students with disabilities to efficiently absorb content not readily available in the past. Sharing progress on the Department of Education's PeopleTech Project, this presentation will show some of the most efficient tools and solutions available to faculty and students.
Presenters:
Pratik Patel, Director, PeopleTech-CUNY
Karen Gourgey, Director, The Computer Center for the Visually Impaired People, Baruch College
Sheryl Porter, Manager of Faculty Support, PeopleTech, The College of Staten Island
LCSS: Leaping the Hurdles of Course Scheduling
Using Java technology, Linux and open-source tools, Lehman College has transitioned to a whole new approach to course scheduling on the web. Seeking to improve on "scheduling via printout," Lehman College administration and staff from various areas of the college worked to create and implement the Lehman Course Scheduling System ("LCSS"), an in-house web-based product delivering a suite of tools to three levels of course schedulers, and now used by all departments.
Presenters (all from Lehman College):
Waimun Yeow, Lead Developer
Lisa Freeland, Senior Registrar
Thomas Murasso, Associate Registrar
Kenneth Wong, Mainframe Programmer
Lynne Van Voorhis, Assistant Dean, LCSS User Experience Manager
Smart Classrooms: Progress Reports from CUNY
How are faculty across the curriculum actually using "smart classrooms" and what issues have emerged for administrators and tech support staff in implementing visions of the 21st century technologically-enhanced classroom? This presentation will reflect the experience of administrators, faculty and support personnel across CUNY.
Presenters:
Aleks Dudek, Video Conference Coordinator, College of Staten Island
Linda John, Director of Computer Labs, College of Staten Island
Michael Kress, Vice-President for Technology, College of Staten Island
Mark Lewental, Media Coordinator, Library, College of Staten Island
Bill Pangburn Director, Instructional Technology Support Services, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Mike Rosson, Director of the Center for Advanced Technology Training, Kingsborough Community College
Jim Russell, Director of Instructional Technology, Baruch College
Kathy Talarico, Chair, Modern Language Department, College of Staten Island
WeBlog!: Discipline-Specific Blogging
Recognizing blogs' ubiquity, The Institute for Virtual Enterprise (IVE) at CUNY created the weBlog! Initiative - bringing blogs to classrooms across the campuses of the University. In its initial semester, a total of 180 University students used the IVE weBlog! system to think, write and receive feedback about their classroom experiences. Involved faculty members from several disciplines have not only found ways to use the blogs synergistically with instructional goals, but have gone so far to adapt blogging software to suit their discipline.
Presenters:
Edgar Troudt, IVE Technology Coordinator
Christoph Winkler, IVE Curriculum Coordinator
Babette Audant, IVE Assistant Director
Jonathan Deutsch, IVE Fellow
Stuart Schulman, IVE Executive Director
Anthony Borgese, IVE Fellow
Integrating Student Data to Enhance Teaching & Learning: The Learner, Educator & Administrator Portal (LEAP)
The Learner, Educator and Administrator Portal (LEAP) is a component of Hostos's Title V projects, which aim to increase graduation rates and retention. LEAP is a campus-wide information management system that integrates SIMS and many of Hostos' information management databases. It provides consistent access to student data inputs from CUNY test results, faculty, tutors and counselors, and enables greater communication and cooperation among faculty and administrators.
Presenters (all of Hostos Community College):
Esther Rodríguez-Chardavoyne, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Kim Sanabria, Activity Director for Hostos' Title V Projects
Shashi Agrawal, Information Systems Associate
Loreto Porte, Director of Instructional Technology
Effective Support for Fully Online Students
CUNY's Online Baccalaureate offers a unique approach to wholly online education featuring the "anytime" flexibility of asynchronous learning and a seamless portfolio of online support services. Some services resemble the traditional, for example, academic advising. Yet others are more technocentric like chat, co-browsing and a searchable knowledgebase. Equally important as technology are people. The Advisement Center and Helpdesk provide intense interpersonal connection, essential for distance programs. The Online Baccalaureate exemplifies a "high-tech and high-touch" environment.
Presenters:
Brian Peterson, Associate Dean, CUNY School of Professional Studies
Paul Russo, Director of Online Programs, CUNY School of Professional Studies
Thomas Jennings, Director of Admissions and Student Services, CUNY School of Professional Studies
Washington Hernandez, Technology and Help Desk Coordinator, CUNY School of Professional Studies
Otilia Abraham, Advisement Center Coordinator, CUNY School of Professional Studies
Zeita Lobley, Student Affairs Coordinator, CUNY School of Professional Studies
Open Source
Notes Towards an Open (Source) University
Open source software offers colleges and universities a number of possibilities that may provide "entry points" for re-considering the value of affordable, flexible, and scalable virtual learning spaces. This presentation will explore the exciting teaching and learning possibilities that Web 2.0 applications such as WordPress, Drupal, MediaWiki and Typo3 afford the future visions of the open university.
Presenter:
James Groom, Instructional Technology Specialist, University of Mary Washington,
Ph.D. Candidate in English, CUNY Graduate Center
Open Source Projects at the CUNY Graduate Center
The Research Computing group at the CUNY Graduate Center has implemented several open source Linux projects to support its user community, including blogs, wikis, backup systems, course and journal management and grid computing. Our experience as system integrators comports with statistical findings on open source versus proprietary software: according to such measures as market share, total cost of ownership, scalability, reliability, performance and security, open source software can be superior to proprietary software.
Presenter:
Florian Lengyel, Assistant Director for Research Computing, CUNY Graduate Center
Adjunct Professor, Ph.D. Program in Computer Science
Connecting Beyond the Classroom
MySpace Campus: Hanging Out / Reaching Out / Connecting with Students
More than a third of all Brooklyn College students have profiles on the popular social networking website, MySpace. More than one half of these have accepted an invitation from the Brooklyn College Library to be friends of the Library on the MySpace site. The Brooklyn College Library provides a model for campus administration and faculty for establishing and using a MySpace profile to communicate with students and energize their public image.
Presenter:
Beth Evans, Professor, Brooklyn College Library
Teaching and Learning beyond the Classroom with TikiWiki
TikiWiki is a free open source content management system with a Wiki core. Any user can edit the contents. It can significantly facilitate teaching and learning, maximize students' collaboration and provide them with the flexibility to meet instructors virtually. We will show how to use TikiWiki in teaching and also cover the installation process, including customization for individual needs.
Presenters (both of Borough of Manhattan Community College):
Yan Chen, Assistant Professor, Computer Information Systems
Chingsong Don Wei, Assistant Professor, Computer Information Systems
Driving the Costs Out of Delivering Storage Services
How can your campus deliver storage services in a way that reduces costs, minimizes risk to data, and provides higher value services? This session, led by Cisco Storage Specialist, Brad Turner, will review the storage challenges facing CUNY IT professionals, and will discuss the trends affecting storage networking as well as Cisco solutions that enable a storage infrastructure strategy to address these issues.
Presenter:
Brad Turner, Data Center Product Specialist, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Mac OS X: The Advantages of the Mac Operating System AND the Ability to Run Windows!
With over 200 new features, Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" puts power at your fingertips. Come learn all about Spotlight search technology, Dashboard widgets, custom web news and four-way video conferencing. You'll also learn how to run Windows on your Mac and the benefits of essentially having two computers in one!
Presenters (both of Apple Computer):
Dan Semaya, Systems Engineer
Steve Cervera, Systems Engineer
Managing Risk and Compliance
When more students and faculty access more systems to perform more processes, data and process security risk increases dramatically. Come hear how SAP's Governance, Risk and Compliance solution portfolio provides a holistic framework for managing risk and compliance across your campus. This session will show you how to:
Increase public compliance and confidence
Improve business performance and predictability
Increase visibility to risk interdependencies
Provide a framework for intelligent IT risk management
Presenters (both of SAP):
Rich Rosen, Account Executive, Higher Education and Research
Beverly Greenberg, Account Executive, Governance, Risk and Compliance
Automating the Lecture Capture and Podcasting Process
Learn how institutions can enhance student comprehension, improve learning outcomes, increase retention and lower attrition by incorporating Anystream's Apreso software platform into the classroom.
Presenter:
Jennifer Kirkpatrick, Regional Manager, Apreso Platform, Anystream
Engaging Students with Social Learning Tools: Blogs, Wikis, and Podcasts
This presentation describes how social networking tools such as blogs, wikis and podcasts are being used in education. The presenters will demonstrate related Blackboard Building Blocks and they will describe real-life examples that illustrate how using these technologies can engage students and enhance instructor effectiveness.
Presenters (both of Learning Objects, Inc.):
Derek Hamner, President and Chief Executive Officer
Hal Herzog, Vice President, Product Development
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