Program Tracks and Presentations

Not Your Mother's Classroom - Changing our Learning Spaces
25 years of attempting to integrate technology into the teaching paradigm and where are we now?  Bridging the divide of the learning models are movements towards changing and adapting our physical and virtual learning spaces, utilizing open content/repositories, blended instruction and learning management systems.

Supporting Research in the 21st Century
University research places unusual demands on IT, requiring both extraordinary levels of reliability and cutting edge experimental technology. This track includes presentations on everything from high performance computing and custom solutions for unique research needs to the underlying systems that ensure our researchers can depend on the computers and network they need.

Virtually There: security, servers and desktop systems
Campuses are improving security and stability by moving from having many small servers to having fewer very large servers with many instances of virtual servers and sometime virtual desktops. This track explores these and other innovations in server and desktop administration.

IT Client Support—CRM
How do you keep everyone happy all the time? How do you ensure that the IT services you provide meet the needs of your individual clients and the university as a whole without working your IT staff into the ground? This track covers help desk, client support, shared governance and other client related issues.

IT Organizational Structure
How is your IT organization changing? What improvements have you made to your organizational structure? What intended and unintended effects have resulted from these changes? Several campuses are in the process of or are investigating changing their organizational structure. Come and learn what they have learned from this experience.

Security: Best Practice, Tools, Progress and Policy
How does your campus protect systems, train users, address policy?  What tools do you use to manage this complex problem?  As computer and network security breaches grab the headlines, what is UC doing to protect our data?

Creative Solutions
This Track will be comprised of presentations, panels and open discussions that may not fit precisely into other available tracks. Topics may include areas such as Open Source Software, LAMP, Small and Large Business Systems Administration, Software Licensing and Inter-Campus Communication.

Birds of a Feather
During lunch on Monday and Tuesday, we will have Birds of a Feather topics at each table.

  • Drupal and Other Open Source Collaboration Management Frameworks Kelly Stack, UCSC
  • New Strategies for Dealing With Copyright Abuse
    John Rocchio, UCSC
  • UC Web Accessibility Update
    Susan Willats, UCSC
  • Redesigning Instructional Technology @ UC Santa Cruz
    Henry Burnett, UCSC
  • Macs in the Enterprise
    Erik Wieland, UCSF
  • Instructional Computing Classrooms and Labs

 
       
 		  
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