TechTalks Event
Hot IT Topics from EDUCAUSE
with guest experts John Bucher, Barbara O'Keefe, and Howard Strauss
October 28, 1999
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Can't make it to the big event in Long Beach? That's hard to imagine; EDUCAUSE'99 may be the largest-ever higher education conference. But for those of you who can't be on the scene, CREN will be capturing some of the highlights for you in the words of knowledgeable experts who are there, attending events, and who will comment on the hottest issues.
This
week's Tech Talk Host is CREN's Executive Director, Judith
Boettcher (right). Tech Talk's Technology Anchor Howard Strauss
is - appropriately for late October - masquerading this week as
a Guest Expert, but he'll be filling the technology anchor role
as well. They're both attending numerous EDUCAUSE'99 events and
will ask the right questions to be sure our guest experts maximize
what they can share with you about this week's events in Long Beach.
Listen to CREN's Tech Talk at your desktop and email your questions
to the experts at expert@cren.net.
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John
Bucher is Director
of Information Technology at Oberlin
College in Oberlin, Ohio. Prior to coming to Oberlin he was
the Director of Computing Services at the University of South Dakota
from 1987 to 1993, and the Director of Computing and Network Services
at Kansas State University. He has been involved in higher education
computing since the mid-'70s and is very active in professional
organizations, including ACM SIGUCCS (board member and chair, 1991
- 1999), Educom (Institutional Trustee, 1997-1998), and Educause
(Recognition Committee, 1998 - present). Bucher currently serves
on CREN's Board of
Trustees.
Barbara
J. O'Keefe is a Professor in the School
of Information and Director of the
Media Union at the University
of Michigan. She came to UM in September, 1998, from the University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she held the position of Professor
in the Department of Speech Communication, with additional appointments
as a Professor in the UIUC Department of Mechanical and Industrial
Engineering, Senior Research Scientist at the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications, and Director of the Advanced Information
Technologies Laboratory in the UIUC Library - among other roles.
Howard
Strauss is Manager of Academic Applications at Princeton
University and is widely known as an expert on the World Wide
Web. He's presented workshops and sessions for years at conferences
such as EDUCAUSE'99, co-hosts CREN's Tech
Talk with the Experts series, and is featured in one of CREN's
Virtual Seminars, Untangling the Web.
Background & Resources
- We know Howard will talk about XML, so here's an October 18 article from Network Computing entitled Riding the Next XML Wave, by Christy Hudgins-Bonafield.
- The Society for College and University Planning featured Barbara's U-M Media Union as one of "Tomorrow's Learner-Centered Environments" during a SCUP-PBS telecast last year. The related Web resource is still available here.
- And what better to provide in a list of resources than the website for EDUCAUSE'99 - Celebrating New Beginnings? There's already an EDUCAUSE'99 online Proceedings available of presentations whose authors provided information in advance. Some those which might be of special interest include: Virtual U: The University Simulation Game by William F. Massy; Collaborative Support for the Distributed University by Anne Agee, Keith Segerson, and John Zenelis of George Mason University; Using E-mail as an Official Means of Communication by Marian Ritland and Sue Shelton Moore of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire; Putting Java to Work at UCSD: A Success Story by Ron Block, Henry Jaime, and Jude Poole of the University of California San Diego; How Did He Get to See That? Authorization on the Web by Albert Steiner of Northwestern University; and lots more!
Meanwhile, as you think about the "hottest issues" facing higher education information technology professionals - you may be fascinated to read about the insights of a thinker from what seems like a long, long time ago in the new book Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millennium by Paul Levinson.
