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Videos and Slides from Conference 6.0 are Available for Download

admin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:27:13 +0000

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A video of Rod Gode’s presentation, “Relevance of Education IT in the Era of Consumerism” is available for download, as well as slides, audio, and video from several other General and Breakout Sessions. See the Schedule and session descriptions for links to these resources, and stay tuned as we add more video content in the next week.

Thanks to all attendees! Session resources to be posted soon.

admin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:05:37 +0000

NJEDge would like to thank everyone who attended NJEDge.Net Conference 6.0, as well as all of the speakers, vendors, and everyone who made this year’s conference a success.

The resources for each session (including the presenter’s slides) will be posted in the next few days, so be sure to check back soon.

Room assignments for presentations are up!

admin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:39:30 +0000

The room assignments for presentations have been posted. See the conference schedule for more details.

Ron Loneker has been chosen to receive the NJEDge.Net Recognition Award

admin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:04:30 +0000

It is my pleasure to share the news with you that Ron Loneker, my friend and colleague, has been chosen to become the 2nd recipient of the NJEDge.Net Recognition Award. Ellen Spaldo, FDU, was last year’s recipient. Ron will be awarded a plaque recognizing his years of dedicated service to NJEDge.Net and its predecessor NJIN. Of particular note, is his eight years of exemplary service as the Educational Activities Task Force Chair.

George Laskaris, President and CEO, NJEDge.Net, and Sister Francis Raftery, President, College of Saint Elizabeth will award Ron with the recognition plaque at this year’s NJEDge Annual Conference on Thursday November 19, 2209 at 2:00 pm. On behalf of NJEDge.Net, I invite you to join with me in applauding Ron for his great work.

Sheri Prupis

Assistant Director, NJEDge.Net

BIOGRAPHY

As part of the Information Systems department of the College of Saint Elizabeth (CSE), Ron Loneker serves as the Director of Media Services. As director, he manages the college’s audio/visual services, television services, video conferencing services and lighting and technical support for Dolan Performance Hall, its new 560 seat theatre. In addition, he led the implementation of the Sungard PowerCAMPUS ERP system in 2004-2006, and has served as chair/co-chair of the college’s Academic Technology Committee over the last 3 years.

As a member of NJEDge.Net, Ron serves as CSE’s constituent services representative for NJEDge.Net and was chair of NJEDge.Net’s Educational Activities Task Force from June 2001 to June 2009. Over the years, Ron has been an active member of the EATF, Distance Learning Academic Advisory Board, Collaborative Faculty Development Initiative, and the Video Resource Group.

Ron received a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Arts in Communication Arts from New York Institute of Technology, and completed a mini-MBA - Business Essentials Program from Rutgers University.

Relevance of Education IT in the Era of Consumerism

admin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:10:30 +0000

BIO/EXPERTISE

A member of Microsoft’s public sector pre-sales engineering team since 1997, Rod is now the Director of Specialist Sales for Microsoft’s US Education sales team. In this capacity, Rod leads 20 technology and solution specialists who work closely with k12 and higher education customers that are evaluating and implementing Microsoft desktop and data center solutions. The Education Specialist Team Unit (STU) that he manages provides deep-dive subject matter technical expertise that spans the breadth of Microsoft’s solutions offerings – from data platform and application development to virtualization and management to cloud computing and school portal solutions. Rod also works to identify and execute education solutions strategy, including translating Microsoft’s business-oriented offerings to education-relevant solutions, and involvement in regular Education webcast and event speaking series.

Rod Gode joined Microsoft in 1997 as a Systems Engineer in Sacramento, CA. His experience with Microsoft products dates to 1987 when he worked as a technical instructor for University of California Extension PC and Macintosh training programs. In 1990, Rod joined Infotec Development to design courseware for, and instruct civil engineers on object oriented and embedded systems programming languages. While with Infotec, he also developed Windows-UNIX client/server applications utilizing 4GL and OLTP technology. Rod moved to a field engineering position with DuPont in 1993. There he traveled internationally, installing, configuring and training engineers on the use of an industrial emergency response system. In 1995, Rod became Project Manager for Advanced Microware, which develops supply chain management and integration software. Here he led development and deployment efforts of mission critical software that integrated with ERP systems like SAP, Oracle and PeopleSoft.

Rod joined Microsoft and focused on mobile and infrastructure technologies, helping state agencies and education organizations create smarter, collaborative, and more cost-effective work environments. In 2002, Rod was promoted to Technology Specialist Manager for US Education and managed 9 pre-sales engineers across the 28 western-most states that focused exclusively on education solutions. In 2005, Rod was promoted to Specialist Team Unit Director, responsible for US-wide pre-sales engineering efforts as well as product and solution strategy. Rod graduated from UC Santa Barbara in 1990 with a degree in Computer Science.

General Session I Wednesday
2:00pm-3:00pm
Location: Einstein

Rod Gode
Director
Specialist Sales, US Education
Microsoft Corporation

RESOURCES

Video of this Session (Requires iTunes or Quicktime Player)

ABSTRACT

According to the analysts and our direct perceptions on campus, Web 2.0 tools are consumer devices are driving many of the directions and decisions campus IT is making. This “bottoms-up” approach is clearly within the realm of the values of academic freedom, but how do we ensure the security, management, compliance and structure required to maintain the requirements of the business and learning? This session will explore ideas on how to strike and maintain the balance of what will likely become a hybrid model for campus IT infrastructure – one that requires mastery for organizations to continue to thrive.

Judy Borreson Caruso to Speak at CIO Dinner: ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology

admin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:18:03 +0000

The Annual NJEDge.Net Conference is hosting a special dinner event where CIO’s and Presidents are invited to bring key members of their executive team to further discuss students and their use of technology with Judy Caruso. Judy Borreson Caruso will present the key findings of the sixth annual ECAR Study of Undergraduates and Information Technology, 2009, including this year’s focus topic on students and Internet-capable handheld devices. The study included responses from 30,616 undergraduate students from 115 U.S. and Canadian institutions.Citation for this work: Salaway, Gail and Caruso, Judith B., with Mark R. Nelson. We have crafted a unique program designed to stimulate critical thinking, explore developing trends and facilitate planning for institutional resources in these fast-changing times.

BIO/EXPERTISE

Judith Borreson Caruso is director of policy and planning at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and has been an ECAR research fellow since July 2002. She has been in higher education information technology roles for thirty years in the areas of application development, data management, policy and security. Caruso is active in several IT professional organizations, including EDUCAUSE. She has served on the EDUCAUSE Current Issues and EDUCAUSE Quarterly editorial committees.While with ECAR, she participated in the enterprise resource planning (ERP), IT security, and student studies.

CIO Dinner, Wednesday
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Location: Einstein

Judy Borreson Caruso
ECAR fellow and Director of Policy and Planning
The University of Wisconsin–Madison

ABSTRACT

In this presentation, Judy Borreson Caruso will present the key findings of the sixth annual ECAR Study of Undergraduates and Information Technology, 2009, including this year’s focus topic on students and Internet-capable handheld devices. The study included responses from 30,616 undergraduate students from 115 U.S. and Canadian institutions.Citation for this work: Salaway, Gail and Caruso, Judith B., with Mark R. Nelson. The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2008 (Research Study, Vol. 8). Boulder, CO: EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research, 2008, available from http://www.educause.edu/ecar.

The Ripple Effect: Faculty Redesign Through Course Redesign

admin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:59:59 +0000

BIO/EXPERTISE

I have been directing the grant for 2 years preceded by 8 years as the manager of Instructional Technology at NJIT after a 25 year teaching career in English, communications and technology.

Breakout Session II Thursday
10:30 – 11:30 AM
Location: Wilson

Kenneth Ronkowitz
Director
Title V Writing Initiative
Passaic County Community College

RESOURCES

Slides from the Presentation

ABSTRACT

The Writing Initiative at Passaic County Community College has a primary goal of improving writing by redesigning more than twenty courses across disciplines as writing-intensive. However an embedded component of the project is the use of technology by the faculty and students participating in the WI courses. A secondary goal is to expand the number of instructors integrating technology into their courses.

Formal faculty development includes collaboratively creating digital content that is shared with other instructors, using online assessments, lecture capture, streaming video, e-portfolios, e-tutoring, online scheduling and promoting the use of the college portal and learning management systems with courses that are online, blended, and face-to-face. Two years into the 5-year Initiative, one success has been the ripple effect in the adoption of the grant-funded technologies and community building beyond the twenty courses.

This session will report on the successes and challenges of these efforts including the data collected by Institutional Research about the effects the Initiative is having on student success, learning outcomes and retention.

PRESENTATION CONTENT

1. Summary Statement: examples from selected courses, data from Institutional Research, external and internal assessments.
2. Description of activity: a five-year $2.5 million grant through the Department of Education Title V aimed at increasing achievement and program completion rates of students by integrating critical thinking, information literacy and technology into college-level writing. Housed in a new grant-funded writing center within the PCCC library, the Initiative’s 20 distinct Writing Intensive, General Education are supported by an instructional development component that collaborates with faculty.
3. Outcomes: formative assessments, anecdotal evidence, and quantitative information obtained by IR, external reviewers and the Initiative team.
4. Importance or relevance to other institutions: implementation of writing reform through course redesign using technology; faculty development in IT; community building; GenEd course design

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admin — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:44:48 +0000

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Techtherapy at Conference 6.0

phillips — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:50:35 +0000

Tech Therapy is coming to NJEdge.Net!

This popular interactive podcast from The Chronicle of Higher Education (available at http://chronicle.com), is hosted by Chronicle reporter Scott Carlson and technology consultant Warren Arbogast. Scott and Warren will be presenting via video conference to Conference 6.0 participants on Friday, November 20. They will start the session with a 20-minute presentation, then answer questions from the audience.

Tech Therapy addresses file sharing, the future of college libraries, how to “green” IT, and other tech headaches and tech resolutions. This enlightening session will provide answers, and maybe spark more questions from CIO’s, faculty members, professional staff, and students at the conference.

Scott Carlson and Warren Aborgast will answer questions you have about trends, pros and cons of emerging technologies.