http://roberthc1.jiscinvolve.org Thoughts and Ponderings on Communications and Marketing in JISCWorld Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:49:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://roberthc1.jiscinvolve.org/2009/11/06/educause-2009-%e2%80%93-well-done-denver/ 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 ... http://roberthc1.jiscinvolve.org/2009/11/06/cyberinfrastructure-in-a-carbon-constrained-world/ 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 ... http://roberthc1.jiscinvolve.org/2009/11/06/cloud-computing-services-economics-and-impacts/ 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 ... http://roberthc1.jiscinvolve.org/2009/11/05/developing-a-next-generation-campus-web-portal/ 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 ... http://roberthc1.jiscinvolve.org/2009/11/05/it-is-about-time-getting-our-values-around-copyright-right/ 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 ... http://roberthc1.jiscinvolve.org/2009/11/05/green-it-conscience-or-wallet/ 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 ... http://roberthc1.jiscinvolve.org/2009/11/05/blackboard-moodle-and-sakai/ 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 ... http://roberthc1.jiscinvolve.org/2009/11/05/disrespectful-and-time-wasting-or-engaged-and-transformative-the-mile-high-twitter-debate/ 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 – ... http://roberthc1.jiscinvolve.org/2009/11/05/cloud-computing-hype-of-hope/ Lawd luvaduck and lawks a-mercy I seem to have ignored the once cherished Ponderblog. Surely a gap of four months must constitute abandonment? Hey ho what is one to do? Well I foretell a few postings over the coming days as I wind myself up for Educause 2009 in Denver. My first ... http://roberthc1.jiscinvolve.org/2009/11/03/oops-the-forgotten-blog/