Podcasts and EDUCAUSE_ANNUAL

EDUCAUSE Now is a monthly podcast, focusing on the intelligent use of information technology in higher education. October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month! So EDUCAUSE Now hosts Gerry Bayne and Colleen Luckett celebrate by bringing you information on tools, community, and opportunities for involvement on the topic of Cybersecurity in higher education.

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This podcast features an overview of the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference. The conference takes place October 28th through the 31st in Orlando, Florida. Hear EDUCAUSE staff share a bird's-eye view of EDUCAUSE 2008 and ways you can make the most of the conference.

You can find all the resources mentioned in this podcast on the EDUCAUSE 2008 Conference website.

 

 

Music used in this podcast:

• "Beach Town In The Off Season" by The Hesh Inc.
• "East Side Bar" and "To Lose the War" by Josh Woodward
• "Blue Eyes" by Justin Winokur

This podcast features a preview of the Teaching and Learning aspects of the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference with insights from Diana Oblinger, Vice President for EDUCAUSE, responsible for teaching and learning activities and the director of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative.

Some helpful links for those attending the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference in Seattle:

The 2007 Policy Conference kicked off with a top-ten style list of Policy Issues currently facing higher education. This entertaining and insightful list was compiled and delivered by Tracy Mitrano, Director of IT Policy and Computer Policy and Law Program at Cornell University. What's past is prologue. As we look ahead to the policy questions facing the Internet today and tomorrow, it's useful to recall what we've seen over the past 12 months. This speech, entitled the Year In Review, runs approximately 33 minutes.

In this 40-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from Kathryn Gates, Jie Tang and Anil Vinjamur in a session entitled Classroom Technology Standards and Design Made Simple. They share analysis of Portland Community College's five-year project to deploy standardized classroom technology tools on four campuses in Portland, Oregon.

In this 42-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from John Walsh and Jennifer Foutty in a session entitled Community Source Procurement System.They discuss the implementation of the first module of a collaborative, community source financial system and the project's key successes and challenges.

In this 30-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from Marjorie Hassen in a session entitled Content Recruitment and Development: A Proactive Approach to Building an Institutional Repository. Hassen explains  Penn Library's model for administrating the University of Pennsylvania institutional repository, ScholarlyCommons@Penn.

In this 41-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from Edward Chapel and Kathleen Ragan in a session entitled Montclair State University Unplugged: Replacing Landlines with a Cellular Information Device. They'll share details of a 2005 project to replace landline telephone services with a wireless alternative that is both a telephone and a portable Internet kiosk.

In this 41-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from Robert O'Leary and Nick Pavlakos in a session entitled Offshoring: Bringing Business Value to Stanford University. They discuss a partnership with an offshore vendor to bring predictability and lower costs to Stanford University's administrative systems development and support functions.

In this 36-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from Brian Foley and Lynn Hulett in a session entitled The Cougar Advisors' Toolkit: WebCAT, the Purr-fect Solution. They share how Washington State University has created a single Web application that enables academic advisors to better advise students by delivering real-time, on-demand, legacy data.