Presented at Southwest Regional Conferences

Cyberinfrastructure (CI) has joined the lexicon of broad technology terms university leaders must now understand as they enhance campus competitiveness, innovation, and economic development. This discussion session will cover the campus drivers of CI, why it needs to be part of your long-term investment and strategic planning, and ways to frame CI’s importance when discussing the needs of scholars and researchers. Bring your experiences and thoughts to this lively discussion.

In creating a digital library collection on World War II, Texas A&M University-Commerce discovered an opportunity to work in partnership with local museums, public libraries, and historical societies. This diverse community greatly expands our ability to preserve historical resources and make them available to scholars worldwide.

The Texas Tech Library recently opened a robust, interdisciplinary 3D Animation Lab. If offers a highly innovative blend of emerging tools and resources that enable radically new endeavors in teaching, learning, research, creativity, and collaboration in an open access environment. This presentation will address what, why, and how we did it and explore what it means.

Over the past two years, the IT Marketing and Communications group at Rice University has actively searched for new methods to reach undergraduates. We ask students how they want to hear from us. Then we extrapolate the feedback we gather to guide our campaigns to reach the entire undergraduate population.

Our presentation will detail one university's experience with employing Second Life, from the initial interest and awareness stage through implementing an upper-level undergraduate course with multidisciplinary, multiuniversity, and multinational characteristics made possible through the Second Life's Web 2.0 multiuser virtual environment.

How do you determine the goals for your ERP implementation and how will you assess success? How do you choose the right implementation model? How important is it to involve the non-technical stakeholders in the planning? How do you make sure the institution makes the decisions instead of the vendor? How critical is data migration in the process? Who will do the end-user training? How do you keep everything on track? These are just a few of the questions that come to mind when an institution, large or small, begins an ERP implementation. Bring your experience and questions to this thoughtful session on this important topic.

Realizing the learning opportunity in students' involvement in their learning process through the use of podcasting, a study was conducted at the University of Southern Mississippi to determine students' knowledge and attitudes of podcasting use in teaching and learning before the campus-wide implementation. The results of the study will be presented.

We will present the planning, use, and assessment of our first flexible technology-enhanced classroom, or "learning studio": a space that was immediately useful but also provocative and experimental. We will show how the completed space itself challenged our faculty and students to redefine what learning at UMSL could mean.

Baylor University has spent two years working on a large-scale deployment of whole-disk encryption. This session will present the process from selecting the encryption technology to the culminating deployment. The result is the mediation of data loss that can result from the loss or theft of a technology asset.

This session will describe the planning, development, and implementation of a virtual campus in Second Life to supplement Texas Woman's University's annual Student Creative Arts and Research Symposium. Second Life provides a space where remote students can participate in poster sessions, live presentations, and hands-on demonstrations of student research alongside on-campus students.