communicate + collaborate + innovate

Schedule of Events

Tuesday, June 12th

noon CLAC Board Meeting ETC 309
2:00pm Registration opens Vollum College Center
3:00 Campus tours by Admission tour guides or
Reactor tour
Vollum College Center
4:30 Conference Registration Kaul Auditorium
5:00 Opening Reception, sponsored by Aruba Networks Kaul Auditorium
6:00 Dinner Kaul Auditorium

Wednesday, June 13th

7:00am

Buffet Breakfast
Conference Registration

Kaul Auditorium
8:30 Conference Registration Vollum College Center
9:00

Welcome

Vollum Lecture Hall
9:15

What should we do about Internet "cruft"?
description

  • Keynote Speaker: Larry Sanger
    Editor-in-Chief of the Citizendium and Co-Founder of Wikipedia
Vollum Lecture Hall
10:30 break Vollum Lounge
11:00

Related Colleges and Their Different Paths to Website Redesign
description

  • Eric Behrens, Associate Director for Academic Computing, Swarthmore College
  • Robert Kieft, Director of College Information Resources, Haverford College
  • Janet Scannell, Director of Computing Services, Bryn Mawr College
Eliot 314
 

An Ounce of Prevention: Strategies to Counter the RIAA’s “Spring Offensive”
description

Psychology 105
12:15pm Lunch, sponsored by Jenzabar Kaul Auditorium
2:00pm

Is iTunes U or Web Streaming Right for You?
description

  • Kenny Freundlich, Director of Instructional Technology, Wellesley College
    download the Powerpoint | notes
  • Steve Hirby, Chief Information Officer, Lawrence University
  • Jason LaMar, Director of Information Services, Ohio Wesleyan University
    download the PDF
Eliot 314
 

What makes collaboration work?
description

  • Roberta Lembke, Director of Information and Instructional Technology, St. Olaf College
  • Jerry Sanders, Associate VP, Information Technology Services, Macalester College
  • Scott Siddall, Assistant Provost, Denison University
Psychology 105
3:15pm break Vollum Lounge
3:45

Responding to the EDUCAUSE Grand Challenges Initiative
description

  • Kris Jones, Director of Information Technology Services, Colorado College
  • Randy Stiles, Vice President for Information Management, Colorado College
    link to the web site
Eliot 314
 

We encourage others to communicate, collaborate and innovate. Can we?
description

  • Mary Backus, Area Director - Operations, Library and Information Services, Middlebury College
  • Barbara Doyle-Wilch, Dean of Library and Information Services, Middlebury College
  • Margaret Stancer, Director of Desktop Computing Services, Amherst College
Psychology Auditorium
5:00 Reception & Northwest Favorites Dinner, sponsored by Foundry Networks
Kaul Auditorium

Thursday, June 14

7:00am

Buffet Breakfast and Annual CLAC Business Meeting

Kaul Auditorium
9:15

Identity Management: one dimension of a more secure and private IT future
description

  • Keynote Speaker: George Strawn,
    Chief Information Officer, National Science Foundation
Vollum Lecture Hall
10:30 break Vollum Lounge
11:00

Moodle and the First Year Experience
description

  • Greg Diment, Director of Computing, Kalamazoo College Information Services
  • Carolyn Zinn, Associate Director of Web Services, Kalamazoo College Information Services
    download the PDF
Eliot 314
 

The potential, promise and pitfalls of virtual worlds: a behind the scenes look at Second Life
description

  • Bret Ingerman, Vice President for Computing and Information Services, Vassar College
Psychology 105
12:15pm Lunch, sponsored by Enterasys Kaul Auditorium
  CLAC Board Lunch Gray Campus Center B
2:00pm

Adventures in Outsourcing
description

  • John Bucher, Chief Technology Officer, Oberlin College
  • Robin Jacobsen, Associate Director for Client Services, Swarthmore College
  • Rebecca Sandlin, Deputy Chief Information Officer, Bowdoin College
Eliot 314
 

Building a Roadmap for Emergency Communications
description

  • James Mattice, Director of Network Technologies, St. Lawrence University
  • Ganesan Ravishanker, Associate Vice President for Information Technology, Wesleyan University
  • Martin Ringle, Chief Technolgy Officer, Reed College
    download the notes
Psychology 105
3:15pm break Vollum Lounge
3:45

Preparing your network for mixed media and VOIP
description

  • Mark Berman, Director for Networks and Systems, Williams College
Eliot 314
 

Outside the Box, But With a Friend: Collaborating on the LMS and Beyond
description

  • Ethan Benatan, Director of Computer User Services, Reed College
  • Juliet Habjan Boisselle, Instructional Services Coordinator, Mount Holyoke College
  • Mary McMahon, Director of Instructional Services, Pomona College
    download the Powerpoint
Psychology 105
6:30 Reception and Dinner, sponsored by Apple
Portland Classical Chinese Garden

 

Friday, June 15

7:00am Breakfast and morning checkout for people staying on campus Vollum Lounge