2008 Roundtable Topics
Here is a list of topics raised during the Roundtable session. While all focus group topics don't have to come from this list, it is a place to get your thinking started.
- Websites/portals
- Library technology
- Network security
- Virtualization
- VoIP
- Technology in renovation projects
- email archiving / eDiscovery / affiliating with other schools for legal issues
- software licensing
- Classroom tech
- Going green - no paper, virtualize the desktop
- Cross platform - macs and active directory
- open source solutions
- Campus Manager, Aruba
- network maps
- faculty and staff training/motiviation
- sql server
- Google apps / Web based apps
- Internet safety
- one-to-one programs
- remote file access solution (xythos?)
- delivering video content to the classroom
- getting trustees on board
- Blackbaud
- "Getting Things Done" (by David Allen)
- appreciative inquiry (scheduled session)
- disaster recovery planning/business continuity planning
- outsourcing backups
- Tablet PCs
- one-to-one repair issues
- VmWare and iSCSI
- Vista migration
- on-call/24x7 support
- unified communications
- classroom clickers
- emergency preparedness / campus communications during an emergency
- Whipple Hill - SIS and Admissions
- faculty needs surveys
- tech team that will drive curriculum integration
- clarity of best use of tools especially in administration
- Moodle/Blackboard/CMS
- Backpack - Senior Systems/Blackboard
- Tech plans
- Tips, tricks and utilities for network administrators
- Windows 2008 Server
- supporting Citrix users at home
- Registrar/SIS apps
- Emergency notifications systems
- Network security audits
- Virtualized desktops
- Cisco Clean Access and Windows server - NAP
- Integrated solutions vs best of breed
- How do you keep the excitement of technology going after the initial wow factor?
- First Cass vs Exchange
- SmartBoards
- Making classroom use of technologies students use daily outside of school
- imaging macs
- Blackbaud Net Community
- video conferencing
- What should you put in a brand new building?
- managing bandwidth - remote logins
- replacement cycles/depreciation scales for equipment
- VPN
- long-term planning
- data-driven decision making
- projectors
- Managed networks/VLANs
- Role modeling -tech connection with teachers
- Future of research books in the library
- Asynchronous sharing of information and best practices among faculty
- Integrating Systems: PCR Educator, Blackbaud
- Use of Web 2.0 tools
- Migration from FirstClass to Exchange
- Classroom management software
- Soft value of equipment
- Use of iPod as language lab.
- Digital asset management (library of school produced video content)
- AUPs for faculty and students
- Citrix application distribution
- Running Windows on Apple hardware