Nov

6

Educause 2009 – Well Done Denver

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The scale of venues needed for Educause is huge and the Denver Convention centre met that need – a vast complex, clearly pretty new, high quality surroundings.
The registration process was smooth and efficient, sign in on one of 14 laptop stations, and your credit card sized personal card is generated automatically. No […]

Nov

6

Cyberinfrastructure in a Carbon-Constrained World

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Educause 2009
Larry Smarr - Harry E. Gruber Prof, Dept of Computer Science & Engineering , University of California, San Diego
Bill St. Arnaud - Chief Research Officer , CANARIE, Inc.
A surprisingly sparsely attended session, all of which can be seen here, even taking account of  the vast room , this must be very off putting for […]

Nov

6

Cloud Computing: Services, Economics and Impacts

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Educause 2009
James Dolgonas - President / CEO , CENIC
David J. Ernst - Associate Vice President & CIO , University of California Office of the President
Theresa Rowe - Chief Information Officer , Oakland University
John J. Suess - Vice President of Information Technology/CIO , University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Lots of talk about  the fact that the Issue is […]

Nov

5

Developing a Next-Generation Campus Web Portal

November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Educause 2009
Benjamin Costello - Manager of Web & eMedia Development, Information Technology Services , Ithaca College
David Weil - Director, Enterprise Application Services , Ithaca College
A bit of an ‘old school’ presentation – lets show them what we have done – mind you what they have done seemed pretty good.
Ithaca College decided to build a portal […]

Nov

5

It Is About Time: Getting Our Values Around Copyright Right

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Educause 2009
Lawrence Lessig - Director, Edward J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, and Professor of Law , Harvard University
A suitably entertaining and informed presentation about the inadequacies of current copyright law in relation to education and science in front of a sizeable audience in the huge Wells Fargo theatre. Lessig highlighted the need for a better […]

Nov

5

Green IT: Conscience or Wallet?

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Educause 2009
Mark Askren - Chief Information Officer , University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Donald Z. Spicer - ECAR Senior Fellow & Assoc Vice Chancellor for Information Technology , University System of Maryland
Well let me admit now, this session lost me quite early on. Surely this should be more exciting than this – I am not […]

Nov

5

Blackboard, Moodle, and Sakai

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Educause 2009
Melody Childs - Deputy CIO and Executive Director of User Support and Student IT Enablement , Louisiana State University
Michael Korcuska  - Executive Director , Sakai Foundation
David G. Swartz - Assistant VP and CIO , American University
Boy you need to get to sessions early – this one was full and overflowing well before start. This  […]

Nov

5

Disrespectful and Time-Wasting, or Engaged and Transformative? The Mile-High Twitter Debate

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Educause 2009
W. Gardner Campbell - Director, Academy for Teaching and Learning, Baylor University
Bruce Maas - Chief Information Officer , University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
@GardnerCampbell
An entertaining presentation,  all now playable here, a kind of semi-stand up between an alleged Twitter fiend and a CIO. It felt a bit like a wrestling bout  - all a little […]

Nov

5

Cloud Computing: Hype of Hope

November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Educause 2009
Michael Dieckmann  - Senior Associate Vice President & CIO , University of West Florida
Melissa Woo - Director of Cyberinfrastructure/Director, Network & Operations Services , University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
They started off by stating that they would focus on the ‘public ‘ cloud (commercial) and the two layers within that – the one  driven by the […]