Collaborative Technologies and Presentations/Speeches

In the summer of 2007, Clemson University faced a large-scale e-mail system implementation. Looking for innovative ways to maximize limited staff resources, IT support managers created the Situation Room. Using Adobe Connect, support managers linked in real time to support personnel in the field to provide expert advice and up-to-date information throughout the implementation. The experience was successful, and the Situation Room was used to manage fall semester start-up support issues. Now at any time during support hours, IT personnel can enter the virtual room to find out about support issue trends and systems status and to access subject experts.

This presentation will describe the identity management infrastructure of the UAB grid computing project, known as UABgrid. Its development is based on accomplishments of two NSF middleware projects at UAB, which focused on building NMI-enabled, open source tools for support of collaboration within virtual organizations that span institutional boundaries, are autonomous, and are collections of attributes. The middleware solution is known as myVocs and uses Shibboleth for identity management and attribution distribution, Globus for distributed computations, and GridShib to bind Shibboleth and Globus. UABgrid is now expanding its grid computing components to include metascheduling of jobs across multiple HPC clusters across the Internet.

A new "action research" model for fostering the use of videoconferencing for faculty collaboration will be demonstrated and described. The project team provided behavior models that engaged the faculty directly rather than focusing on training and techniques. Evaluating the project's success using survey and interview data will also be presented.

Bringing together disparate academic, administrative, and support units, UCLA is implementing a campus-wide online learning and collaboration system. This talk will discuss our challenges and lessons as we build an opt-in, shared system in a decentralized computing environment.

The support and governance process surrounding collaborative tools at the University of Washington has given more members of the university community the tools they want to use. This presentation will share some of the pitfalls and emerging best practices for rapidly adapting and adopting collaborative technologies.

Turn high tech into "my tech" with a free Gmail account to access and use Google's free power tools! You don't need to be a web developer to manage your classroom, committee, and department digital files online. Learn how to apply Google's free tools to your everyday needs.

Institutions increasingly encourage students to take an active role in their own learning. Wikis can facilitate this process by offering many ways for faculty and students to collaborate and create content. This panel of wiki experts from Boise State University and Occidental College will discuss their experiences in using wikis, including emergent roles in the teaching and learning process, critical to the effective use of this new technology.

The University of Wisconsin and Zimbra will discuss how they have led an effort at UWM to deploy high-quality enterprise collaboration tools and allow for the retirement of pockets of diverse, uncoordinated services. These efforts have focused on cost-effectiveness and community-building. This presentation will take a deep dive into how e-mail and calendaring can be used universally to benefit all campus stakeholders.

This presentation will demonstrate Northeastern University's new online CRM application to increase student retention through communication between faculty and advisors. This tool allows faculty to identify students with poor or declining performance or other performance difficulties and easily report these issues to advisors.

Discover how Bridgewater State College's new wiki web tool provides collaborative group space for academic and administrative group projects, as well as how this tool was implemented using the Mediawiki open source platform.