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The HP Digital Classroom - Enhancing Teacher Productivity
Presented By: HP
The HP Digital Classroom brings together interactive learning solutions, computer hardware, educational software, wireless networking and professional services in a customized program that can empower teachers to:
- Adjust to distinct learning styles
- Collaborate with other teachers and students
- Monitor test results and respond to student questions
- Improve student engagement and achievement by integrating technology in the classroom
- Distribute homework assignments
- Access a variety of resources for planning lessons
- Communicate with parents and administrators
- Decrease the burden of administrative tasks
- Keeping Students Engaged In & Out of School
It’s important to note that the HP Digital Classroom addresses the way students want to learn. As students grow increasingly at ease with blogs, social networking and the retrieval of information online—87 percent of U.S. teens use the Internet—it’s evident they’ve embraced personalized learning. With products that range from notebook PCs to digital whiteboards, printers, wireless projectors and interactive response technology, HP can support teachers as they seek to not only improve their own productivity, but to engage students in schoolwork and raise achievement in the classroom.
The Complexities of Implementing Luminis Successfully
Presented by: Strata Information Group
Are you considering implementing Luminis, but don't know where to start? You need a 'Luminis Planning Guide' to help you navigate through the SGHE version matrix, supporting application requirements, and the components of a successful implementation plan. In this session we will review selected features of Luminis, discuss how Luminis can help build and strengthen your services with your students, faculty and staff, and shed some light on the challenges you may encounter with managing a Luminis implementation. We'll highlight the key items you should include in a Luminis implementation project plan, and provide some planning tips for success.
Case Study – (School district from region) Streamlines IT Trouble Tickets Using the Internet
Presented by: Schooldude.com
Location: Room 4A
Note: School district will be chosen from region, in which presentation will be presented.
Technology departments are fighting fires by reacting to incidents from their educational institutions. These incidents occur hundreds to thousands of times a year and drive manpower responsibilities. New Internet technology helps to solve business challenges by supplying the power of incident management technology to the smallest of educational institutions’ information technology departments, as well as the largest! These new technologies help simplify the experience and improve services to teachers/faculty and staff. Hear from (selected school district) about their business challenges, and how new Internet technology helped bring the power of technology to their technology department.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how to better utilize work queues, project templates, and knowledge base
- Learn how questionnaires can reduce incident requests
- Understand how the world is moving to web-native solutions that do not involve servers and infrastructure
- Learn how the Internet is changing business operations processes in education including IT trouble requests, facility usage scheduling, utility tracking, maintenance scheduling, and capital planning.
- Understand how off the shelf solutions compare to “in-house” solutions.
- Demonstration of example technology solutions
Presented by Qwest Communications
Qwest iQ Networking® is a new suite of wide area networking services that powers your business operations on our application-aware network. Qwest iQ Networking offers a converged networking service based on leading technologies that allows you to build flexible networks using legacy ATM and Frame Relay protocols, as well as advanced IP-centric, VoIP and multi-protocol label switching (MPLS)-based solutions.
Qwest iQ Networking consists of a secure, managed, fully interoperable and scalable suite of global wide area network (WAN) services. It is based on high performance platforms using Qwest’s leading IP networks. A Qwest iQ Networking solution is custom designed to focus on your specific business and application requirements. The application-centric focus at Qwest offers a seamless transition to other Qwest integrated application-focused services to add to your core Qwest iQ Networking solution:
- Qwest® OneFlex® VoIP services – Captures the cost savings and productivity enhancements of VoIP technology. Qwest has a full suite of tailored VoIP solutions from our OneFlex VoIP portfolio.
- Qwest Integrated Management – A complete and fully integrated suite of network management (note: equipment is only part of the ICB offering) provides you comprehensive out-tasking of part, or all, of your data network.
- Qwest Business Protection Services – A comprehensive suite of security, network and hosting solutions for enterprise disaster recovery and business continuity situations.
Remote Infrastructure Management Solutions (RIMS) - Proactive Monitoring, Management, and Maintenance of Critical Systems
Presented by: Integrity Networking Systems, Inc.
AIntegrity provides remote monitoring and management of our customers’ critical applications, workstations, servers, switches, firewalls and networks. With Integrity’s cutting-edge technology, we can proactively maintain your core network assets in a non-intrusive manner that enables us to resolve most issues before our customers realize there is a problem. Our team of certified engineers delivers RIMS from our Network Operations Center (NOC) 24/7/365 utilizing industry standard tools to monitor, manage and protect your IT investment.
By contracting outside your organization for infrastructure support and management, you can reduce or reallocate IT resources, relieving highly skilled, expensive staff of routine tasks such as monitoring firewalls, reading event logs and resolving day-to-day problems. The result is increased IT staff productivity. The staff can turn its attention to strategic projects, improving service quality, enabling employee mobility and integrating new technology.
Integrity's Helpdesk technicians remotely monitor and manage your core network assets, reducing the mean time to repair and minimizing downtime. Because Integrity RIMS-managed networks are continuously monitored, your business benefits from increased monitoring levels and expedited responses to network events.
Specific Features of RIMS:
- Microsoft® Critical/Security Automated Patch Management
- Network Asset Hardware/Software Auditing
- Network Service Monitoring, Alerting with Restart
- Network Security Appliance Monitoring and Alerting
- Server Event Monitoring and Alerting (Windows, Linux, Unix)
- Automated Client Application Deployment/Removal (Scripting)
- Intelligent Real-Time Alerts (self-healing)
- Adware/Spyware Detection
- Detailed Customized Executive and Technical Reports
- Trouble Ticketing
- Secure Web Portal Access for Remote Administration
- And much more…
With RIMS, Integrity can resolve many IT problems in minutes vs. hours due to reduced onsite support. Plus, with Integrity’s customizable contracts, you are able to control your annual IT support costs. Please join us for a 45 minute live demonstration on October 4th. If you are unable to attend, call Russ Britton at 505-294-7747, ext. 110 or email rbritton@integrityns.com to set up an appointment for a free demonstration.
Presented by Dell
This session will address solutions for engaging students in the classroom. The program helps propel the teaching and learning environment into the 21st century, while providing teachers with the professional development and support to apply new technology to teaching and learning. Students gain the opportunity to learn in interactive collaborative environments, that have the potential to address the various modes of learning styles.
What's new in Apple's new iLife 08 and iWork 08 software?
Presented by Apple
Apple will be presenting and demonstrating the new features of their iLife 08 digital media suite and iWork 08 productivity suite which was announced in August, 2007. Come learn about the new enhancements to iPhoto, iMovie, Garagaband as well as the new application Numbers.
Campus Security- how to integrated campus security by using a flexible IP platform
Presented by Brainstorm-Networks
Security has become a key issue for schools, parents and students. Administrative resources and data, such as student records, must be protected from individuals trying to modify or destroy information. Physical campus security is also critical to ensure safety of teachers and students. A comprehensive security solution such as firewalls and intrusion detection systems can protect information resources; while a campus-wide video surveillance system can help with physical security.
Challenge
Schools were once viewed a safe and secure environment for teachers and students. Unfortunately, high profile events have brought the realization that schools are not immune to acts of violence or vandalism. Ensuring physical security can be difficult and expensive. Identifying potential problems and dispatching campus security in time for prevention can be a challenge. Physically patrolling the campus with limited security personnel leaves most of the campus vulnerable much of the time. In addition, telephones must be available in every classroom, and other areas frequented by teachers and students, for emergency use. Schools must turn to a comprehensive campus-wide video surveillance system and IP phone system to provide for teacher and student safety
Incidences of student record tampering and other unauthorized access to school records and administrative systems has shown school networks and computing resources are vulnerable to improper and malicious activity. The integrity and reliability of school records must be protected. Networking and computing resources are vulnerable to attack from sources internal and external to the school. Schools must also protect against attacks from viruses and worms that can have a devastating impact on computers and network systems. Schools must implement security solutions to protect against these targeted and random acts of physical and electronic violence.
Solution
Maintaining a high level of security requires establishing security policies, implementing a comprehensive network security solution, ensuring that the policy is being enforced, and modifying the security policy and technology implementation as needed. Video over IP allows security cameras to be placed across the campus and be monitored via an IP network. Installing IP phones in all the classrooms is necessary to ensure quick notification of problems and a timely response by security personnel. IP phones provide an on-line directory and the ability to send messages to multiple phones such as broadcasting emergency response requirements simultaneously alerting all appropriate staff and security personnel. An effective integrated security solution must provide secure connectivity, threat defense, and trust and identity management. Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) provide secure connectivity solutions, such as IPSec, SSL VPN and MPLS VPN. VPNs protect both data and VOIP applications, over multiple wired and wireless media. Wireless security solutions include Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) encryption keys protect the privacy of transmitted data, and protocols such as Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) and RADIUS provide centralized user identification, authentication, dynamic key management, and accounting
Come learn more about how an end to end network architect can tie in comprehensive security solutions to make your environment a safer place.
The Connected Campus: Unified Communications Applications for Collaboration and Safety, Maximize IT Efficiency with LANDesk® Management Solutions
Presented by LanDesk Software
Learn how easy-to-use integrated LANDesk® systems, security and service management solutions can empower your IT team to do more with less effort, expense and training and little or no new infrastructure.
Find out how LANDesk® Application Virtualization can save you time, money and IT hassle with easy, client-less, conflict-free application deployment and rollback using true application isolation capabilities.
Learn how to effectively and efficiently manage your systems running the Mac OS using the same management solution—and the same console—you use to manage your PCs. Find out how you can retain critical network settings for a smooth, in-place upgrade with minimal impact on users for your Macs, including upgrading from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X. And how to easily create OS images, standardize upgrades and more quickly and efficiently deploy new OSes.
Discover how to easily know what you have, where it is and how it’s being used to help ensure asset security and configuration integrity while also ensuring compliance and reducing overbuying and denying the launch of unauthorized applications.
Find out how to LANDesk can help you distribute software faster and more effectively with an exclusive, patented solution for efficiently distributing large packages to multiple computers at once with minimal impact on your network bandwidth.
And learn how LANDesk® IT process automation solutions can empower you to create a single automated process—once—for your IT management tasks; a process that saves you time and hassle while letting you retain complete control over how things are done. Discover how you can access predictability and consistency that lets you go from a reactive fire-fighting mode of IT management to a proactive mode of total control.