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edACCESS
2008: TOPICAL
SESSIONS
1) Demo Showcase: Bring the Excitement
Home!
2) Instructional Integration Progress Report: Where have we been? What worked? What didn't work? Where are we going?
3) The Systematic Development of Informed Consent
4) Virtualization--What is it, and does it live up to the hype?
1) Demo Showcase: Bring the Excitement
Home!
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Moderators: |
- JT Amirault, Groton School, MA
- Bill Campbell, Dwight-Englewood School, NJ
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This session, brought back by popular demand from last year's
conference but with all new content, will provide many easy ways
to bring some of the conference excitement home. Presenters will
provide an assortment of ten to fifteen minute demonstrations that
showcase a variety of useful ideas and techniques. You'll be
able to reproduce some of the demonstrations post-conference by following
written instructions posted on the edACCESS wiki. The goal of this
session is to expose you to at least one useful technique or tool
you can demonstrate back at your school. Please contact JT or Bill
if you are interested in offering a demonstration at this session.
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2) Instructional Integration Progress Report: Where have we been? What worked? What didn't work? Where are we going?
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Presenters: |
- Joel Backon, Choate Rosemary Hall, CT
- Trevor Shaw, Dwight-Englewood School, NJ
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Schools have struggled with the idea of integrating computing technology
into their curricula for almost twenty years. The past five years have
provided the most activity and potential for improving teaching and
learning. Some schools have implemented top-down approaches to technology
integration in the form of one-to-one initiatives. A few of those programs
have been highly successful and there have been some casualties. Other
schools have used a grassroots approach, and tried to meet the needs
of students and teachers despite significant financial constraints.
Members of this panel will talk about their approaches to technology
integration, describing both their successes and failures. Case studies
will focus on organization and staffing, professional development,
and assessment of results. Panelists will discuss the history of programs
at Choate Rosemary Hall and Dwight-Englewood School. They will also
be asked to speculate on where technology integration and faculty professional
development will be in the next five years. Will some teachers be working
in Second Life worlds, dedicated to Web 2.0 technologies, using new
approaches to differentiated instruction, or all of the above? What
are the pending challenges for the IT Director and the Academic Dean?
How do we maximize the potential that many educators see, but still
eludes the mainstream educational world?
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3) The Systematic Development of Informed Consent
Have you struggled to get your school community to go along with a sound plan you have developed for an important initiative at your school? Have you seen your efforts torpedoed by a small determined opposition, or felt frustrated trying to successfully communicate the need for your worthy project? In this session, Adrian Segar, using a case study of his biggest failure as an independent IT consultant for a school, will explain what you've probably been doing wrong, and describe what you need to do to successfully develop informed consent for your proposal. Based on thirty years of research by Hans and Annemarie Bleiker, founders of the Institute of Participatory Management and Planning, the methods outlined in this session have been used successfully by over thirty thousand professionals from hundreds of federal, state, and local government agencies.
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4) Virtualization--What is it, and does it live up to the hype?
In this session we will introduce, discuss, and demonstrate desktop,
server, and storage virtualization on multiple platforms (Linux,
Windows, and Macintosh) as well as some proprietary solutions.
We will also provide several detailed examples of server and storage
virtualization on both commercial and open source platforms. These
examples will include up front costs, ROI calculations, and even
power savings. We will cover the pros and cons of server and storage
virtualization, as well as how to avoid some common stumbling blocks
and misconceptions when using this technology.
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