Keynote - A ‘New’ American University for Next-Gen Learners
Presenter(s): Adrian Sannier, Arizona State University
Status: Available
Air Date: 7/29/2008
Air Time: 8:30 AM CST
Length: 1 Hour 12 Minutes 50 Seconds
Three years ago, Adrian Sannier joined ASU as University Technology Officer, working in the Office of the President to implement cuttingedge technologies in support of President Crow’s vision of the New American University. Sannier is a bold, outspoken campus technology leader whose initiatives are catapulting his campus into a future radically different from the institution’s past. Come share Sannier’s strategies for putting in place ground-breaking plans that will serve the next generation of students. These are actionable visions that include strategic technology choices—advancements that may be unfamiliar or even unpopular at first, but which carry enormous potential.

T01 - The 21st Century IT Department Today — and Tomorrow
Presenter(s): John S. Camp
Status: Available
Air Date: 7/29/2008
Air Time: 10:00 AM EST
Length: 52 Minutes 24 Seconds
How can your own IT department help drive innovation and promote outstanding 21st century classrooms on your campus? Should IT be a service organization rather than a technology provider? Here’s how you can create an IT “force” that’s an innovation agent now, and well into the future.

T06 - Mastering Smart Classroom Design
Presenter(s): Scott Walker, Michael J. Field, Rick Nimtz, Matthew A. Silverman
Status: Available
Air Date: 7/29/2008
Air Time: 11:15 AM EST
Length: 1 Hour 2 Minutes 13 Seconds
Audiovisual consultant Scott Walker (past president of InfoComm International) shares with a panel of university tech pros the peaks and valleys of smart classroom design. Challenges, stumbling blocks, hidden opportunities, and smart solutions are highlighted. Find out from design and campus tech experts what you’ll need to know in 2008-2009.

T13 - Boosting Innovation and Collaboration with Apple Technologies
Presenter(s): Lori Clithero, Frank Lowney, Ph.D., Keith Politte, J.D., Jim Wolfgang, Ed.D.
Status: Available
Air Date: 7/29/2008
Air Time: 3:45 PM EST
Length: 59 Minutes 40 Seconds
What technologies is Apple offering to Next-Gen students and faculty for innovation and collaboration? Two main items students look for in their educational experience are engagement and social networking. The Apple collaborative and development tools provide a platform for leveraging these areas for authentic education. Presenters will use the tools and demonstrate student, faculty, and staff productions, to show how value-added activities can enhance an educational experience. Our panel will be joined by an Apple education trainer ready to share best practices.

W04 - Forget Coursecasting: Podcasting as Educational Inspiration at UConn
Presenter(s): David B. Miller, Ph.D.
Status: Available
Air Date: 7/30/2008
Air Time: 9:45 AM EST
Length: 1 Hour 3 Minutes 43 Seconds
Uconn’s Miller wanted to develop podcasts that would do more than simply record actual lectures; he wanted to give his large classes the ability to easily interact with him, one another, and a broader community. Today, Miller employs the sophisticated use of podcasts, precasts, and postcasts to enhance course material and facilitate learning, and you can, too. This “how-to” encompasses detailed process and product information.

W09 - Mandatory Cell Phone Programs: A Good Call
Presenter(s): Edward V. Chapel, Ph.D., Patricia Kahn, Ph.D.
Status: Available
Air Date: 7/30/2008
Air Time: 11:00 AM EST
Length: 1 Hour 7 Minutes 5 Seconds
Montclair State is now providing communications and mobile services to a diverse faculty and student body the way they want it—via cell phone. All incoming students receive a GPS-enabled phone bundled with mobile learning, safety, community, and campus navigation tools. The program is keeping on-campus and commuter students engaged, and learning experiences dynamic. The university continues to build on the program and is using it to move full-tilt into Web 2.0 and 3.0.

W13 - From Social to Semantic Web: Blogs and Wikis to Mashups and Tagging
Presenter(s): Trent Batson, Ph.D.
Status: Available
Air Date: 7/30/2008
Air Time: 3:30 PM EST
Length: 47 Minutes 50 Seconds
How do you reach the semantic web first imagined by Timothy Berners-Lee? Batson takes us on a tour inside the latest Web 2.0 tools and applications, for a first-hand view of the technologies that may move us from common social software to that true semantic web. If you want a closer look at the tools and applications that will get us there, this session is for you.

Th02 - The Digital Commons: Blogs, Wikis, and More for a Next-Gen Campus
Presenter(s): Eddie Maloney, Robert A. Pongsajapan
Status: Available
Air Date: 7/31/2008
Air Time: 8:30 AM EST
Length: 59 Minutes 26 Seconds
Learn how Georgetown University has harnessed the power of Web 2.0 in its Digital Commons. The Digital Commons brings together a comprehensive set of technologies and tools to be used to support teaching, learning, collaboration, research, and social communications. GUDC tools help faculty and students create projects in groups, share their ideas, and build websites that represent teaching, research, and learning. The session will examine some of the projects underway in the Digital Commons, as well as a discussion of GUDC’s future evolution.

Th07 - Using Second Life to ‘Road Test’ Tech Space Planning
Presenter(s): Seth Merriam, Alicia K. Russell
Status: Available
Air Date: 7/31/2008
Air Time: 9:45 AM EST
Length: 56 Minutes 47 Seconds
The Northeastern University Educational Technology Center has worked with university architects and academic partners to design space that will combine the EdTech Center and Teaching Center. To test the design, the team “built” the space (including furnishings) to scale in Second Life, and invited NU colleagues and others to visit and assess. Based on feedback and NU staff/faculty experiences using the virtual space, planners made substantial changes to the design. Come “walk through” the multiple virtual iterations of the space, and find out how using SL revolutionized the development process.

Keynote - Shootout! Bracing for the Next-Gen Student Wave: Myth or Mandate?
Presenter(s): Julie Evans, Project Tomorrow with response panel
Status: Available
Air Date: 7/31/2008
Air Time: 11:00 AM EST
Length: 1 Hour 28 Minutes 34 Seconds
Are educators and technologists prepared for an onslaught of next-gen students who make the term “digital native” seem tame? How can we meet the unprecedented technology expectations of these learners. Or, will we merely be pandering to a generation that expects higher learning to be a video game? Come join our “shootout” panel of technologists and educators as they grapple with the possibilities. Panel debate will be prefaced by Project Tomorrow’s Julie Evans, presenting a brief overview of the landmark Speak Up national research project that has polled over 1.1 million K-12 students about their use of technology for learning. Don’t miss an eye-opening event that will help you cull through the hype and build realistic, cost-effective five-year plans!