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Using VMWare Technologies to Virtualize Banner Infrastructure
Presented by: Morey Roof, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
The session will go over how New Mexico Tech is currently using VMWare technologies to virtualize part of our banner infrastructure to gain more flexibility and faster failover capabilities. It will also cover our long term plans and show where we plan to use VMWare technologies in the future. This future plan discussion will also cover some of the important technological requirements that will be needed to realize this plan, like SAN technologies.
Providing Institutions with Banner Application Support and Hosting Services
Presented by: Geoff Valdez, NM Education Services Center
The session will discuss the purposes of the New Mexico Education Services center, and how it can assist member schools with Banner Application Support and Hosting. The member schools, or consortium, strive for Banner Application and System standardization, and utilize the available resources of all consortium members.
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Asynchronous Distance Education for Special Populations
Presented by: Dr. Rodger Bates, New Mexico State University
Asynchronous distance education extends educational opportunities to geographically and temporally challenged individuals. In addition, through the development of pod-casting, i-Pod and DVD-based instruction, asynchronous distance educational opportunities also may be extended to a number of special populations. Though the internet has emerged as the major purveyor of distance education, a number of special populations are limited in their access to distance education by their inability to access the internet. These populations include deployed military personnel, military personnel in highly mobile units, Native Americans on remote reservations, student-athletes and institutionalized populations. Through the development of i-Pod, pod-casting and DVD-based instruction, New Mexico State University is seeking to address the educational needs of these special populations. The presentation will focus on the unique distance educational needs and the strategies being developed to help serve these special populations. A brief demonstration of a video i-Pod-based course designed for deployed military personnel will be included in this presentation.
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Technology-Enhanced Strategies to Increase Learner Engagement
Presented by: Bethany Bovard, New Mexico State University
Summary
One of the biggest challenges educators face in the distance education environment is that of overcoming barriers to success that students perceive. The three biggest barriers that students feel they need to overcome can be categorized as social, administrative, and motivational.
In this presentation, each type of barrier will be addressed. Then, specific and easy-to-implement technology enhanced strategies for breaking down those barriers will be introduced. Finally, a number of real-life examples of each of the strategies will be shown and discussed.
By the end of the presentation, participants will:
- Understand the student-perceived barriers to success in distance education classes
- Know how to leverage certain technology-enhanced strategies to overcome those barriers
- Be able to utilize one or more technology-enhanced strategies in their own distance education courses in order to more fully engage students in the entire learning process.
Participants will also take away from this presentation a set of tutorials that will help them effectively utilize each of the technology-enhancements discussed and a list of alternative strategies that could be easily implemented in certain circumstances where the other strategies would not be feasible.
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Social Networking & Internet Safety
Presented by: Julia Parra & Susie Bussman, New Mexico State University
Social Networking is increasing as a part of student life, 21st Century Skill development, and business practices. This presentation will provide educators with an understanding of social networking as it relates to students, teachers, and parents. It will provide you with resources to teach Internet safety and netizenship from within a framework of activities that focus on Information and Technology Literacy skills.
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Teaching and Learning in Second Life
Presented by: Bethany Bovard, New Mexico State University
Summary: Second Life, a multi-user virtual environment, has great educational potential. It supports social interactions and increases feelings of social presence; it provides opportunities for increased content interactions; it creates a sense of engagement.
In this presentation, participants will learn about the educational potential of Second and how to make the most effective use of it for educational purposes. Additionally, participants will have an opportunity to discuss challenges inherent in the use of Second Life for teaching and learning.
Specific objectives of this presentation include:
- Introducing Second Life
- Presenting educational areas in Second Life that would be appropriate to the Arts, Humanities, Sciences, and Social Sciences
- Visiting an in-progress educator event in Second Life to talk to people about what it’s like to teach there
- Demonstrating some of the content interaction capabilities provided by simulations and building tools
- Providing examples of teaching & learning activities in the Arts, Humanities, Sciences, and Social Sciences
In short, this presentation will provide participants with enough information to decide if they would like to use Second Life for teaching and learning and enough basic resources to get them started quickly and easily if they do want to use it.
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Listserve? What’s a listserve?
Presented by: Sarah Peterson, New Mexico Education Services Center (**NNMC**SFCC**NMJC**)
SungardHE maintains many listserves for client use. These lists provide valuable information about SungardHE products as well as practical and useful discussion lists. This presentation will cover subscribing, changing delivery options, unsubscribing and listserve etiquette.
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Paving the way for student success in online education
Presented by: Laura Grant, New Mexico State University
Summary: NMSU’s Office of Distance Education is creating an orientation to provide greater guidance for students registered for online courses at NMSU’s main campus. This orientation is meant to ease first-time online students into a web-based learning environment. It will walk students through course access and provide critical information that will be of use in their online studies. The orientation will provide practical advice and information about:
- Academic programs
- Administrative tasks
- Accessing online courses
- Necessary technology
- Online resources
The need for a distance education student orientation is driven by the more varied academic opportunities available at NMSU. More than 2,000 courses at NMSU use WebCT for delivery or as a supplement to face-to-face classes, which provides more educational options to students who previously wouldn’t have the opportunity to progress academically.
These technology-incorporating courses contain students of varied technological capabilities. Although many students experienced in online environments, will not go through the orientation and still successfully make their way through the critical first steps with little guidance and flourish throughout their online education, others are seeking direction. With the increasing number of programs and courses with an online presence, many students are confused about what to do once they register for an online class and what resources are available once the course is in full swing. NMSU will continue offering varied educational opportunities to students with diverse technological abilities, so this guidance is necessary to help all students be successful.
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Starting a Records Management Program
Presented by: Lesa Richardson, NM School for the Blind & Visually Impaired
The information will pertain to schools that want to get their records program started. With all the changes being made in records management starting a program can be overwhelming. So let’s look at it in pieces instead of the whole pie where it is definitely manageable.
Information will include:
- Training information
- Contacts
- Guides
- Policies and Procedures
- Student Records
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