Presented at Midwest Regional Conferences

Come learn about innovative work being done in the Midwest region at this brisk, lively showcase of five-minute presentations from ten of your peer institutions. Time will be allotted for Q&A, and informal interest groups may be formed on the spot at the end of the session.

Illinois State University used prime space in the student center to create a new avenue for students, faculty, and staff to receive technology help and also added fee-based services. See how the computer store, residential networking, and the help desk came together to meet rising support expectations on campus.

The Collaboratory Project is a Northwestern University initiative that provides web-based resources, tools, and services for K–12 teachers and their students. Students use the Collaboratory to create, share, discuss, and publish short stories, annotated research, and journals in web-based document templates using a variety of media. Students are publishing for an audience of peers.

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.

Learn about UW–Milwaukee's experiences designing and implementing a campus-wide system for tracking tutoring, mentoring, and advising activities. Topics will include creating a cross-division taskforce to define requirements, building support at administrative and department levels, leading a user-driven iterative development process, promotion, training, and creating a support network.

Led by Lake Forest College, Chicago-area academic, cultural, and civic institutions are developing VBI, the Virtual Burnham Initiative, with 3D models re-creating the 1909 Plan of Chicago housed on a project website. VBI is a project about the Chicagoland community that builds community between academic institutions, area organizations, and the greater public through technology.

This session will use the InfoCommons at Northwestern Library as a case study to examine a very successful partnership in technology application and space planning between two high-profile campus entities.

Academic IT leaders have much to learn from IT leaders in other businesses and organizations. The Duluth Area CIOs Consortium has members from local business, health care, government, and education. This session will describe the consortium's establishment, goals, and meeting structure, as well as the benefits of membership.

Today's youth are digitally titillated, visually stimulated, and socially connected. To educate and engage this new breed of learners, institutions of higher education are revisiting and revising the basic tenants of a general education by asking, What does it means to be literate in today's society? As educators transform the way they teach and conduct research, IT leaders also must alter their institution's IT strategy to best support a mobile, global digital citizenry.

What do faculty really want from faculty development efforts designed to help them teach with technology? How can institutions best meet faculty needs in this area? This presentation will share results from longitudinal studies of faculty, students, and technology at the University of Minnesota and will discuss the impact of these results on our faculty development efforts.

All dozen institutions comprising the CIC recently decided to join the InCommon Federation. This session will describe the motivation for and experience of joining InCommon. We'll also describe some of the use cases, including interactions with the federal government, interinstitutional access, and community source development projects.

Consolidated logging systems provide a comprehensive view of system events and simplify the review and analysis of logs. Notre Dame's system collects and analyzes logs from over 300 servers. The project overcame the technical challenges of handling large volumes of logs and transforming the raw data into meaningful information.

The help desk at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota relies heavily on student workers for the end-user support of our liberal arts undergraduate campus as well as off-campus graduate and professional programs. This presentation will share the steps we took toward improving the professionalism, performance, and perception of the help desk.

Lancope is the provider of the StealthWatch System, a widely used network behavior analysis and response solution that unifies flow-based anomaly detection and network performance monitoring to protect critical information assets and ensure network performance by preventing costly downtime, repair, and loss of reputation.

Podcasts solve some leaner-centered problems typical of adult learners. We will describe how we designed several types of podcasts to deliver portable audio and video content to aid nursing students in learning procedural and conceptual knowledge using mobile devices as well as in more static contexts.