It's not too late to register for the MEEC Member Conference and Vendor Showcase scheduled for April 30, 2010 at the BWI Airport Marriott. The Conference is teeming with great sessions and opportunities to network with MEEC vendors and members. Join us!
MEEC Member Conference and Vendor Showcase Program
7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Registration and Continental Breakfast
Foyer/Salon F&G
Sponsored by DELL
9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
Welcome – Salon F&G
9:15 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Keynote Address - Innovation in Action:
New Learning Environments for the 21st Century
Salon F&G
Dr. Julie K. Little, Educause
Sponsored by Perceptis
As we discover more about the way that people learn, the challenge is to design inquiry-driven learning environments focused on knowledge creation while moving outside the box of four-walls to access virtual experiences and content. And, while shaped by a lifetime of technological innovation, today’s learner seamlessly moves around virtual spaces creating, sharing, and communicating; however, impulse does not translate into purpose and fluidity does not equate to literacy. How can higher education leverage our understanding of learning, the experiences of today’s learner, and emerging technologies—from wikis and blogs to social networks and cyberinfrastructure—to build learning ecologies where students are encouraged to think critically and work collaboratively and content is generated and exchanged?
Creating new learning environments that promote active learning, critical thinking, collaborative learning, and knowledge creation, and reaching and engaging today's students have been two of the five issues at the forefront of the EDUCAUSE Top Teaching and Learning Challenges Project (http://www.educause.edu/eli/challenges). During this presentation, Dr. Little will cast a spotlight on ways to engage today’s learners and prepare them to thrive in the 21st century. Activate your imagination. Join the dialogue.
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Break - Foyer/Salon F&G
10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Vendor Showcase – Salon D&EAdobe, Apple, Inc., Applied Technology Services, Bell Techlogix, Berry, Dunn, McNeil & Parker,
CAS Severn Inc., CR Dynamics & Associates, Daly Computers, Inc., Data Networks, Dell,
Digital Intelligence Systems Corp., Hartford Computer Group, Inc., Janus Associates, McAfee, Microsoft, Presidium, Inc., Perceptis, SHI International Corp., Springforward, Symantec,
10:30 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.
Concurrent Session I
Bell Help Desk – Call Center Solutions for MEEC
Bell Techlogix your MEEC licensing partner since 1999 is a solution provider on the MEEC Call Center/Help Desk offering. What can Bell Techlogix offer to your school site to augment your current Call Center/Help Desk offering the tools, the process and the people behind Bell, your solution provider
Portrait of the Work at Home (WAH) Service as a Young Program
Ups and downs, lessons learned of instituting a college-wide Work-at-Home software program that offers Microsoft and Adobe to faculty and staff at Montgomery College
Imagine: Video Game Software and Hardware as School Equipment
Teaching programming in the context of video game production has recently become a way of portraying computer science in a different light. Rather than boring assignments that output text to a screen, video games offer a way for students to see, control, and design programs that are not only interesting, but cross-curricular and complex. A video game becomes a tangible product when it is used with an Xbox controller or put onto a portable media player, like the Microsoft Zune. In this session, a teacher and students from an Academy of Information Technology school (Montgomery County Public Schools) will be discussing how they have used Microsoft XNA Game Studio software, an Xbox 360, a class set of Xbox controllers, and Zune Media players to motivate students to learn computer science fundamentals. The students will present their work in the Microsoft Imagine Cup, an international software design competition, and discuss how the software and hardware has enriched their academic experience."
Microsoft and MEEC - More than an Office with Windows
Learn how a high school (The John Carroll School) leveraged some lesser known MEEC and Microsoft options to save money and provide better service to its students.
Cloud Computing Panel
11:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Concurrent Session II
Partnering with an Outside Vendor to Provide a Comprehensive, Systemic Help Desk
Adding services without adding staff? Help desk staff overly stressed trying to keep up with the increased demand for support? Budgets are shrinking and expectations for around-the-clock customer support service are increasing? Learn how the University of Virginia, collaborating with Perceptis, consolidated their IS help desk (Oracle Financial Aid, HR and Payroll functional support), SIS help desk (PeopleSoft) and IT help desk into one. Find out how Perceptis provides real-time metrics, drives process improvement and cost predictability for UVA, while improving the overall customer experience
Microsoft Agreement Review
MEEC has established a new five year agreement with Microsoft. Come and hear about the details of this agreement including additions to the current Suite of products. If you are confused, want to learn more and need to hear how the products will enhance your Microsoft experience, you will want to attend this session. Members of the MEEC negotiating and RFP team along with Microsoft representative will be on hand to answer questions.
Apple and Mobility in Education
Students are already coming to campus with mobile devices such as an iPhone, iPod touch and the magical and revolutionary iPad in hand. They’re used to gathering information on the web, getting their email, watching lectures, getting directions, or using some of the over 150,000 apps available to extend the functionality of these devices.
Now they can learn anytime and anywhere, too. As educators all over the world are discovering, mobile learning works. Students devour engaging, customized curricula when it’s delivered on the iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. It’s a familiar and essential part of their lives. Audio and video podcasts let students study at their own pace, wherever and whenever they want.
Security Assessment and Advisory Services Session
MEEC has established a contractual vehicle through which member institutions can procure IT security assessment and advisory services. This session will summarize the range of services and qualified firms under the contract and will describe Anne Arundel Community College’s (AACC) process for selecting a vendor to perform security audit services. We will also cover some of preparatory and implementation challenges in undergoing the security audit. Finally, representatives from several of the qualified firms will be available to answer questions during the session.
Storage Solutions
12:30 p.m. – 1:45p.m.
Lunch - Salon F&G
Sponsored by Bell Techlogix
Guest Speaker
Elliott H. Schlanger, Secretary, DOIT,
State of Maryland
2:00 p.m. – 2:50 p.m.
Concurrent Session III
Integrating PeopleSoft, Blackboard, and Microsoft CRM to build ‘STARS’: A Student Success Monitoring System
In this presentation, the authors describe a model labeled STARS, developed through the integration of PeopleSoft; Blackboard, and Microsoft CRM at Bowie State University. The authors formulate the hypothesis that the negligible outcomes derived from intervention efforts to enhance student success might be explained by a deficiency, not in theories and models per se, but rather in an incomplete operationalization of the models. To address this conjecture, the authors explain the existence of an information deficiency regarding the interventions, arguing that a robust and comprehensive strategy can only succeed with the support of technology by building integrated decision support systems.
Microsoft SharePoint: Over a Thousand Sites and Growing
In 2006,The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health implemented Microsoft SharePoint for use by all faculty, students, and staff. After running another portal solution since 2001, we have finally found a product that gives us the tools necessary to support the school's work. We will demonstrate some sites that have been created to facilitate collaborative student application reviews, research support, and various working group tasks. In addition, we have implemented some customized features that enhance the out-of-the-box features. To name a few: the integration of My Documents, shared drives, and the ability for external accounts to be created automatically with the appropriate level of security. As we look to the future, we plan to implement a SharePoint-based document management system. As part of this session, we will share with you our challenges as well as our successes with implementing SharePoint in an educational environment
Help Desk Panel
MEEC has established a contractual vehicle through which member institutions can procure Call Center/Help Desk service. This session will review the range of services and qualified firms under the contract. Also included in the discussion will be ways in which the agreement can be utilized by MEEC members. Come and hear the contract procurement officer and others discuss the use and usability of the agreement. Vendors who provide this service under the MEEC Call Center/Help Desk agreement will be asked to be in the audience to share appropriate experiences.
What's new in Creative Suite
Learn how Stang Software, a student-run web-design company at Marriotts Ridge HS, use Adobe CS5 products to enhance productivity. This session will also feature a preview of the latest Adobe products and how you can use them to incorporate interactivity into your documents. Learn how to reuse your images and assets in multiple formats to maximize your productivity
3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Closing Remarks/Door Prizes – Salon F&G
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