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Monday, May 20, 2013THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. -
Monday, May 20, 2013This SIG will focus on real-world implementations of VDI. The presenters will discuss what they have actually done at their schools and how well it did or did not work for them. What works? What doesn't? Are there any cost savings? Where do the benefits come in? What do students, faculty, and staff think about it? The stories they share will help all of us who are looking at this area of technology and trying to figure out how it may or may not fit in our institutions. -
Monday, May 20, 2013Tablets, smartphones, handhelds continue to represent new challenges and opportunities for the College and University campus environment. The rapid proliferation of devices on campus has forced us to question our mobile presence, wireless networks, and our cyber accessibility across all platforms. Simultaneously faculty and instructional technologists’ battle with pedagogical issues around teaching and learning trying to determine where this technology fits in today’s 21st century world. -
Monday, June 3 - Wednesday, June 5, 2013This three-day hands-on course will familiarize participants with the Final Cut Pro X interface and basic video editing techniques, then progress to an introduction of the software's advanced features. Topics will include the FCP X editing workflow from capture through editing, transitions, motion graphics, color correction, sound finishing and output. -
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Wednesday, June 5, 2013The Massachusetts Colleges Online Conference on eLearning: Sharing Best Practices allows attendees to explore, discuss, and understand how colleges and universities in Massachusetts are exploring online education to improve teaching, learning, interacting, and communicating with our students. -
Thursday, June 6, 2013The curriculum is targeted at early-stage leaders: recently appointed or aspiring managers or supervisors. The program focuses on the practical knowledge and skills needed to succeed in management and leadership in higher education. Topics to be covered in the first series include: interpersonal communication skills; budget and finance; managing time and priorities; project management; managing up; and performance management. -
Thursday, June 6, 2013Effective mediation of collaborative learning processes, such as writing, continues to be a challenge for faculty teaching today. When are students really collaborating, sharing meaningful dialogue and constructing group knowledge, as opposed to cooperating? Cooperation is the division of labor, whereas collaboration involves the creation of a shared concept by a group. -
Thursday, June 6, 2013As students continue to use their own laptops and mobile devices, the need increases for creating informal learning spaces on college campus. Traditional computer and tutoring labs are not often conducive to collaborative learning. Their physical layouts, often with computers arranged in parallel rows or flanked around a room's perimeter, do not promote communities. -
Thursday, June 6, 2013Spend a day immersed in games. How and why are libraries incorporating serious educational games, game-like elements (i.e. gamification), and game collections and events into their services, outreach, and instruction programs? Hear perspectives from faculty affiliated with the nationally renowned interactive media & game development programs at Becker College and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. -
Thursday, June 6, 2013Amid the chaos of over-programmed, over-stressed life in the digital age we are increasingly hearing calls for finding ways to have more reflection, more joy, more happiness in our lives, for reconnecting to our feelings, and for experiencing life with people around us more meaningfully. Nowhere do we need such emphasis more than the workplace itself, where, thrown together with others under the pressure-cookers of productivity, personalities, and politics. -
Wednesday, June 12 - Thursday, June 13, 2013You may attend Part II if you completed Part I of the "EDUCAUSE-NERCOMP Workshop Series for Managers".
The curriculum is targeted at early-stage leaders--those recently appointed or aspiring IT managers or supervisors. The program focuses on the practical knowledge and skills needed to succeed as a manger and leader in higher education. -
Wednesday, June 12, 2013Google the cow, has an incredible supply of milk (tools, data, research etc.). Most of the Higher Ed users, whether they are from a Google Apps institution or not, tend to just skim the surface by using a small number of the available supply. We have lined up an impressive array of experts who will help you dive deep into the sea of milk and expose you to ideas to help your faculty, staff and students enhance teaching, learning and research. -
Wednesday, June 12, 2013A recent research study conducted with higher education CIOs explored why higher education has been bringing proportionally more women into the ranks of the CIO than the corporate sector. Findings revealed much about the culture of higher education IT, women’s unique experience in it, and organizational factors that are contributing to this trend. -
Wednesday, June 12, 2013The Ancient Greek word “eureka” literally means “I have discovered (it).” In this SIG, we’ll be exploring the use of web-scale discovery tools (also known as discovery layers) in academic libraries. Discovery tools have evolved from the federated search engines of yesteryear to more sophisticated products that, at their best, facilitate that “eureka!” moment for researchers. Marshall Breeding, editor of Library Technology Guides, will provide an overview of the state of discovery. -
Thursday, June 13, 2013Technology Literacy is a term that we all use but how do we actually define Technology Literacy from a Higher Education Teaching and Learning perspective? Technology Literacy is clearly a literacy of the 21st century but how do we define, teach and assess if a student has mastered necessary skills to be successful in higher education and the workplace? -
Thursday, June 13, 2013VoIP is well-established, however higher ed institutions have adopted at varying rates. The age of the existing phone system and cost to entry can be significant. However, at some point, we have or will get into the world of VoIP. The lines between telecom and network have all but disappeared. -
Thursday, June 13, 2013The future of Higher Education is online. This likely is not a novel declaration, especially as physical space and classroom scheduling limits the ability to bring new students to campus. Yet, in order to prepare for and grow online programs, collaborative efforts must be made by departmental services in order to support this growth. -
Monday, June 17 - Wednesday, June 19, 2013In this three-day “Beyond the Basics” course, learn how to master advanced audio techniques, edit multi-camera projects, work with auditions and compound clips, use effects creatively and composite like a professional. -
Thursday, June 20, 2013Create brilliant titles, transitions, effects, and more with Motion 5, the motion graphics companion to Final Cut Pro X. This one day course starts with motion graphics fundamentals and moves into compositing and animation. Learn to build a composite, animate with behaviors and keyframes, create stunning content with shapes, generators, paint strokes and text treatments, and work with particle emitters and replicators. Prerequisite: Introduction to FCPX or Advanced FCPX. -
Monday, July 8 - Wednesday, July 10, 2013Learning Organization Academy (LOA) is a professional development opportunity, created in response to demand from members.
LOA Fellows are library, IT, and other higher ed professionals committed to increasing a culture of learning in the workplace.
Beginning with a summer immersion experience, LOA will provide a year-long support structure for teams as they conceive, design and implement practical, exploration-oriented projects that transform workplaces into learning organization. -
Monday, July 15, 2013Working with vendors requires a unique set of skills that are a useful analog to technical expertise. We will bring in several successful negotiators to share their experiences and help us build the toolset to get the best deals for our institutions. They will discuss approaching vendors, reading (and understanding) contracts and effective bargaining strategies for getting what you want. -
Monday, July 15, 2013An institution’s data resources are a unique and valuable asset. Institutional data provides the fact-based foundation that decision-makers need to formulate strategy and to plan for the future. However, data must be managed and maintained, if it is to form a trusted basis for decision making. How far along is your institution, in developing competence in data management, business intelligence, and data governance? -
Tuesday, July 16 - Wednesday, July 17, 2013This summer Dartmouth College's Institute for Security, Technology, and Society and Computing Services will sponsor their seventh annual Securing the eCampus conference. As always, the overarching topic is information security in higher education. The conference will bring together CIOs and CISOs from academic institutions throughout the country. The conference will be held on the Dartmouth campus and will feature presentations from information security and educational IT leaders. -
Friday, September 20, 2013The curriculum is targeted at early-stage leaders: recently appointed or aspiring managers or supervisors. The program focuses on the practical knowledge and skills needed to succeed in management and leadership in higher education. Topics to be covered in the first series include: interpersonal communication skills; budget and finance; managing time and priorities; project management; managing up; and performance management.
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