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| Wednesday, October 12, 2005 Pre-Conference Registration |
| 7:30 am - 10:00 am | Registration (Continental breakfast will be served) Embassy Suites Hotel & Conference Center registration desk (first floor) |
| 8:00 am - 11:00 am | Vendor Exhibits & Pre-Conference Workshops Sandia Ballrooms (1st floor) |
| Pre-Conference Workshops 8:00 am - 11:00 am |
Pre-Conference Workshops |
| Golf Scramble 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm |
UNM Championship Golf Course |
Manager Reception |
Embassy Suites Hotel guests can enjoy a complimentary reception featuring alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages and hors d'oeuvres located in the atrium (bottom floor) of Embassy Suites Hotel. |
| Welcome Social 6:30 pm - 12:00 pm |
Embassy Suites Hotel Ventana Room (1st floor) |
| Thursday, October 13, 2005 | |
| 7:30 am | Registration (Continental breakfast will be served) |
8:10am - 8:55 am |
Early Bird Vendor Presentations
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9:00 am |
Welcome - Bill Kunko, CHECS President |
9:05 am |
Dr. Steve McCleery - NMJC President |
| 9:20 am | Dr. Beverlee McClure, Secretary of Higher Education |
| 9:40 am | Veronica Garcia, Secretary of Education |
10:05 - 10:10 am |
Bob Tacker, CHECS Executive Director |
| 8:00 am - 5:00 pm | Vendor Exhibits |
| CHECS Banquet Dinner Sandia Casino | |
| 6:00 pm | Cocktail Hour - La Ventana (1st floor) |
| 6:20 pm | CHECS Awards - La Ventana (1st floor) |
| 7:00 pm | CHECS Banquet Dinner -La Ventana (1st floor) |
| 8:00 pm | CHECS after Dark Enjoy music, gambling, and dancing Transportation provided |
| October 13th track sessions: |
| Friday, October 14, 2005 | |
| 7:45 am | Continental Breakfast -Sandia Ballroom |
| 8:00 am - 12:30 pm | Vendor Exhibits -Sandia Ballroom |
12:15 pm Closing Awards - Sandia Ballrooms
1:30 pm CHECS Board Meeting - Ventana
Presented by: Wire One Communications The presentation will focus on the needs of the educator delivering course material and presentations over video conferencing. The session will focus on video conferencing as an interactive technology that allows educators to reach students distributed geographically as well as the ability to bring in external teaching resources from the education and business community. The Presentation will also speak to the technical requirements and challenges in supporting video conferencing over IP networks. Presented by Sun Microsystems & Sigma Solutions Let's spend 45 minutes looking at the many different locks that an Identity key might need to open for an individual as they mature through their lives learning experiences . This would include differing relationships with various institutions and should encompass the development of an individual learning history and the creation of learning alternative based on this history throughout the individuals life. we will explore the prospect of stepping outside of the nightmare we all experience of un-integrated identity systems which do not capture appropriate experience and demographics data into a world of easy system wide access rights and information mining to help guide the education experience. The desire is for the audience to leave with an understanding of why the community has not until recently been compelled or capable of making a streamline educational lifetime experience possible in a reasonable time frame and an acceptable cost. Presented by: American Power Conversion Learn best practices to increase the availability of your business-critical processes. Unified Storage Management - Data Replication and Disaster Recovery Data protection is an organization's strategy for preserving and retrieving critical data residing in an array of distributed storage systems through disparate geographical locations. Education institutions need to ensure data protection, simple, powerful, integrated hardware/software solutions that deliver consolidated and simplified backup operations, high availability, and--in case of disruption--rapid and complete data recovery. Solutions that are proven, easy to manage, scalable and deliver a low total cost of ownership. 10:40-11:30am From the instructor to the classroom across campus or across town, you can reach your students with real time interactive collaboration. You can add content from a number of content providers from across the globe to enhance the learning experience and take your students on virtual field trips literally around the globe. Polycom will discuss options for content deliverable over video and the technologies to deploy videoconferencing in the classroom. 12:50-1:40pm This session will explain how AppWorx, the only 3 rd party scheduling tool certified for use with SCT Banner, can eliminate manual tasks in routine Banner processing. With AppWorx, our customers are able to reduce or eliminate human intervention and manual job submissions, freeing staff to concentrate on higher priority tasks. AppWorx can significantly impact the average run times of financial aid, letter generation and more by creating automated job streams that run without latency, intervention or human error. Parameters and term codes can be passed dynamically to the job at run-time, resulting in faster, more accurate processing. 1:45-2:35pm ARGOS: Web Based Ad hoc Reporting Solution Looking for reporting software that can actually meet your needs? Based on years of experience in Higher education, Argos, Evisions' web based Ad hoc reporting tool provides an easy-to-use and cost effective solution to your institution's reporting needs. Argos takes a non-standard approach to report writing allowing more flexibility for end users and requires less time and involvement for your already over burdened IT staff. Argos has collaboration built in, allowing users to share and use reports from like-minded universities. Everything about Argos has been tailored to your SCT Higher Education environment. Once installed, you will immediately realize the benefits of Argos. Real time access to data, simple roll out, secure reporting, unified tool for different systems, reduced paper costs, and most importantly, a staff that is empowered to make decisions based on knowledge previously unavailable. 3:15-4:05pm The WebCT presentation is "An Overview of WebCT Vista- the Benefits to CHECS" WebCT Vista will be overviewed, including a demonstration of the innovations and expanded benefits of the new environment. We will focus on: tools to track student outcomes; a shareable repository for learning objects; a tool to link powerful third party applications to your Vista environment; and a community manager tool that provides for institution branding and management of divisions. 4:10-5:00pm Demands for storage continue to increase exponentially. Acquiring, managing and backing up large amounts of storage can be challenging. Apple provides solutions ranging from direct attached storage, to SAN and clustered file system solutions (Xsan). Please join us to discuss: - Xserve RAID - Fast, inexpensive, platform independent storage - Disk to disk to tape solutions to reduce backup windows - Xserve & Mac OS X Server as a NAS solution - Xserve and Xserve Raid in typical SAN solutions - Xsan - an OS X clustered file system that also allows volume level integration of: Mac OS X, Windows, AIX, Linux (Suse/Red Hat), IRIX, and SolarisAdministrative Applications 10:40-11:30am Microsoft ISA Server 2004 and SurfControl, a CIPA Firewall Solution In the last few months NMSBVI has been moving away from the Novell BorderManager solution with SurfControl to the new Microsoft ISA Server 2004 and SurfControl. The presentation will deal with the reasons for our conversion and issues arising during the migration. Will also demo the two products working in conjunction and provide sources of information and assistance for the deployment of the software. 12:50-1:40pm This presentation provides examples of solutions used by San Juan College (SJC) for managing and tracking the movement of PC's and Laptops. The focus of the presentation is centered on a web-based application developed in-house by the Office of Technology Services (OTS) staff at SJC. The application demonstration includes such scenarios as tracking repairs, maintenance, reconfigurations, and warranty claims. The ability to track the location and movement of equipment is also demonstrated. 1:45-2:35pm Implementing a new ERP--Lessons Learned ERP implementation is often one of the most complex projects any technology department would undertake. This presentation is a panel discussion of the implementation process at four New Mexico CHECs schools. The focus is on the essential ingredients that can be applied to any ERP implementation. Insight into lessons learned will be shared by the panel. Panel members from San Juan College (Datatel), NM Military Institute (ABT's Power Campus), NM Junior College (SCT Banner) and NM Tech (SCT Banner), represent implementations ranging from just complete, in progress, to complete. Insights and comments from the audience will be welcomed. 9:25 - 10:15 am This presentation will discuss NMSU's experience migrating its legacy architecture to 3:15-4:05pm Portals vs. Websites: MySJC Portal at San Juan College As another step towards student success and providing learning anytime, anyway, anyplace, San Juan College offers "MySJC" portal to faculty, staff, and students. This presentation demonstrates the advantages of the portal over the intranet including single sign on and systems integration. An overview of the portal and the current services it provides will be given. Implementation and customization of the portal will also be discussed, as well as the reasons and technologies used to move from a campus intranet to a portal application. 4:10-5:00pm Newly awarded Microsoft New Mexico State Partnership The Microsoft U.S. Partners in Learning State Partnerships is extended to six states. The New Mexico Partnership is centered about a project named CLARO. This five year program combines elements of the PED-Next Steps program, DOL economic development, and NMHU GEAR UP -- and will assist recruitment for all of higher education in New Mexico. Academic Support 10:40-11:30am There is no free lunch For two or three years the NMMI director has complained at CHECS director meetings that student access on the campus network was "eating our lunch". NMMI has nearly 1,000 student owned computers on the campus network with a wide assortment of the latest and greatest in worms, viruses and assorted malware. Statistics last year indicated that over 30% of our network traffic was spyware. Last spring an impromptu conversation with CHECS network staff (Norma and Byron) kicked of a project to contain the malware. This presentation will be a short discussion of our attack plan and its results so far. 12:50-1:40pm Using Simple ( and not so simple ) Solutions to Enhance Student Motivation and Learning in Online Courses This session explores the challenges experienced as well as the strategies used by professors to solve problems that emerged while teaching graduate courses via WebCT at the University of New Mexico. Some of the solutions came in the form of relatively inexpensive commercial software programs (e.g., Camtasia, Visual Communicator Pro, and Impatica), and portions of several presentations derived from using these software solutions will be showcased. Other solutions came in the form of work-arounds that required time and energy rather than ready-made commercial solutions. The presenters will introduce structuring strategies they used to enhance the flow of their WebCT courses and will discuss the interaction opportunities provided to students through WebCT tools and other methods. Reactions from student evaluations will be used to highlight certain features of the online courses. 1:45-2:35pm What better way to train instructors on how to use WebCT than to provide training in WebCT itself? The University of New Mexico's Online WebCT Training course moves participants from an introduction to WebCT through course development, providing tips about effective practices for online instructional design along the way. Lessons include step-by-step directions, video demonstrations, interactive activities and discussion to engage participants. This presentation will showcase the course and review development, implementation, and usage. Session attendees will be provided a copy of the WebCT CE 4.x training course for modification and use at their own institutions. Technical 10:40-11:30am Developing database driven PerlScript asp web pages. This session will cover the basics of how to connect to your Database and move your SQL statements to the web. Connection strings, permission and content control using Windows (AD) Groups and debugging will be covered. 12:50-1:40pm Security Policy: a perspective from the White House Network security is no longer about simple network firewall protection. Effective network security requires a sophisticated strategy involving physical protection, Layer 3 defense, host-based security, policy enforcement and regulatory compliance. In partnership with Eastern New Mexico University - Roswell, the legal firm of Morgan & Cunningham and Brainstorm Networks approach security from the regulatory compliance perspective beginning with security policy. Bryan Cunningham, former Deputy Legal Adviser to National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice, crafter of the Homeland Security Act and Patriot Act, Co-founder of the American Bar Association's Cyber Security Privacy Task Force will present and discuss the importance of policy creation, enforcement and how to leverage NSA security standards and best practices. 1:45-2:35pm New Mexico High Speed Networking Projects In a strong collaborative effort NMSU, NMT and UNM have been working on a number of networking projects that will provide high speed bandwidth to New Mexico. The concept of purchasing dark fiber to save on recurring costs is the theme of building this next generation network. The Rio Grande Fiber Project, National Lambda Rail (NLR), LANL connection to I2, Southeast Fiber Project, Albuquerque Metro area Fiber Project, NM GigaPop are some of the initiatives that are being coordinated by the Research Universities with CHES-Net. This presentation will briefly describe each initiative and show how each fits into the "big picture" of New Mexico networking. 3:15-4:05pm
High Plains Regional Education Cooperative #3 is a K-12 member of CHECS and has been an aggressive advocate of connecting northeastern NM schools together. We are currently working with the State Department of Telecommunications and CHECS-NET to a "hybrid" network consisting of the state of NM digital microwave system and T1/ATM bandwidth to coordinate a distance learning/communication system between the High Plains Regional Education Cooperative #3 and 8 rural school districts. Partners include school districts in Clayton, Des Moines, Springer, Maxwell, Cimarron, Raton, Roy and Mosquero. In addition, we are focusing on establishing a connection to the Springer Boys Schools (delivery of vocational education) and networking the municipal facilities in Raton. What is going to be delivered over the network?
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4:10-5:00 pm Implementing Video over IP using VBrick Video over IP was the last part of successful convergence of data, voice, and video at San Juan College. This presentation will review the process taken in the design and implementation of the VBrick Solution including the Media Control Server (MCS), Video on Demand (VOD) server, set top boxes, and encoders. A demonstration will include how the VBrick was utilized to bring live video to the desktop and made available for playback at a later date. Also discussed will be planned applications such as classroom video playback for faculty as well as training videos that can be used by faculty, staff and students. Implementation concerns such as security and network bandwidth will be addressed too. 8:30-9:20am Stay out of the news: Protect your organization from hackers, identity theft, malware, and lawsuits Educational environments are challenged with providing broader access to information while facing threats from an increasing amount of internal and external attacks. Help prevent security risks while providing open access to the network and information through Juniper's secure and assured networking solutions. 9:25 - 10:15 am This presentation will discuss NMSU's experience migrating its legacy architecture to Directory Integration of Active Directory with SCT Banner/Luminis RESPEC will discuss the issues involved in integrating the Sun One LDAP that supports SCT Banner/Luminis with Microsoft Active Directory to provide synchronization of accounts and passwords. Directory integration is a critical component of enterprise identity management, authentication/authorization, account provisioning/deprovisioning, security programs, and compliance auditing. The presentation will illustrate the solution developed for New Mexico State University using Microsoft Identity Integration Server. 10:20-11:10am Qualstar has the backup and storage solutions to meet your needs: Automated, Unattended, Simply Reliable Storage Solutions. Qualstar is a manufacturer of automated tape libraries used for backup, archival storage, data protection and disaster recovery. Its products are known throughout the world for their rugged, Simply Reliable design yielding years of trouble-free operation. Qualstar tape libraries are sold, installed and supported worldwide by selected Value Added Resellers, Systems Integrators, Distributors and Original Equipment Manufacturers. Presented by J and J Technical Services, Inc. and Qualstar, the Tape Library Experts. 11:15am - 12:05pm Hosted Centrex Services Hosted PBX - One Connect ip Hosted IP Telephony offers a range feature-rich of cost saving solutions to educational institutions and campus environments with reliable, full-featured Voice over IP (VoIP) in these feature packages: These packages can be deployed individually or in combination on the same carrier-grade platform, with or without the integrated enhanced applications : desktop integration, mobility, productivity and business related, to meet customer communication requirements. Hosted IP Telephony follows a model similar to traditional Centrex. The service provider owns and manages all of the necessary network equipment and hosts it in their Point of Presence (POP). The service is then delivered to the business over broadband access form the provider's POP. Virtually any high speed broadband access technology will work. This provides a cost-effective solution for feature-rich service at very reasonable prices. The only business premise equipment needed for hosted IP telephony is routers, Integrrated Access Devices (IADs) and either IP or analog phones. Analog or IP phones can be utilized but IP phones enable more features and functionality. IADs are necessary for analog phone and allow businesses to utilize their existing phones. Hosted IP telephony offers some distinct value over IP PBX and traditional voice solutions. Some of the value propositions to educational institutions and campus environments are: • Financial Savings - institutions can save a substantial amount of both capital and operating costs by deploying hosted IP telephony. • Service Reliability - voice network equipment residing in the service provider pop provides a high level of service and disaster recovery. • Features, Functionality and Enhanced Applications -IP technology enables features and applications that are not available with traditional technology. The last few years have seen voice technologies move from traditional TDM solutions to IP-based solutions. IP-based solutions provide unique benefits to educational institutions and their end users. From the business perspective, it alleviates the pains associated with installing, upgrading and maintaining hardware and software necessary with IP PBX or PBX solutions. One provider, one number for service and support. Your institution will receive great, feature-rich service without incurring any of headaches of ownership.Administrative Applications Business Intelligence in Higher Education New Mexico State University has elected to implement Cognos Report Net and Power Play and SunGard SCT's Operational Data Store and Enterprise Data Warehouse products, concurrently with its enterprise Banner, Matrix and Luminis implementations , with the goal of providing standard reports at system go-live and on-line analytical processing shortly thereafter. An overview of the challenges, frustrations and successes of the strategy will be provided. 9:25-10:15am New look of Banner 7.1 features 10:20-11:10am 11:15am-12:05pm The goal of this roundtable session is to allow participants to share information and ideas for advancing New Mexico's educational network (CHECS-Net). Prior to opening the roundtable session an overview of previous and current statewide networking initiatives will be presented. Academic Support 8:30-9:20am In accordance with the national expansion of wireless coverage and rapid growth of laptop and tablet market share, San Juan College faculty, staff, and students are utilizing Tablet PCs to enhance their overall teaching and learning experience. With note-taking capability, speech recognition, and extreme mobility, it is easy to see why these amazing machines are an ideal tool for today's higher education environment. At San Juan College, the users plug their Tablet PCs effortlessly into the multi-media systems that are available in every classroom and can be constantly connected to our wireless network throughout the campus. The presentation will include a full demonstration of the Gateway M275 Tablet PC and discuss some innovative uses of technology by our faculty, staff, and students. 9:25-10:15am Over the last two years the San Juan College Music and Theatre Departments have been augmenting courses with new media content. This has allowed students to be able to practice and learn instruments over the internet, DVD, and CD-Rom. Additionally, the Theatre has begun using 3D modeling to plan sets, lighting, and show simulations for the Henderson Fine Arts Hall. We will explore how these various items were created, the skill sets necessary to create them, and the impacts of using these tools. 10:20-11:10am The goal of this roundtable session is to allow participants to share information and ideas for advancing New Mexico's educational network (CHECS-Net). Prior to opening the roundtable session an overview of previous and current statewide networking initiatives will be presented. 11:15am-12:05pm IntelleCard works exclusively with Evisions' Intellecheck to provide paperless payments directly from Banner. With IntelleCard you can seamlessly convert your existing process of paper checks to an electronic transfer by loading funds directly onto your students' Visa debit cards. This process reduces costs, saves time for your office staff as well as students, and provides features previously unavailable to both your institution and student population. IntelleCard can be used for ANY payments from financial aid, to student payroll, to reimbursements. Technical 8:30-9:20am Advising Space is a web based application that integrates Western New Mexico University's Portal (Luminis from SCT) with the University's SIS to provide up to date student information to Faculty Advisors. The application allows an advisor to email one or all of their advisees, view academic records, and store comments for each advising session. Advising Space is the winner of the 2005 NACADA Technology award. A demonstration of the application as well as a technical overview will be given. 10:20-11:10am A look at the various authentication credentials and mechanisms at NMSU. Overview of the techniques used for transition from an authentication and authorization scheme for each system to a centralized authentication and de-centralized authorization scheme and the benefits and pitfalls of making identity management structure transparent to the users at NMSU. Discussion on future possibilities with shared identity management between institutions. 11:15am-12:05pm Interested in recruiting students? Unhappy with Banner as a recruiting tool? NMSU has bought the SCT Matrix Student Marketing which is a relationship management system designed to move prospective students through the NMSU recruitment and admissions process to find there best pathway for education. This system provides NMSU the ability to store information about prospective students, individually communicating with each student based on interests and needs, and perform a variety of other functions related to the admission process. Come hear about the process and structure NMSU will adapt into their recruiting process. K-20 Interactive TV - Who is connected, and what to do if you aren't This session is intended to discuss the "technical" issues involved in using ITV systems in K-12 and interacting with higher ed. K-20 Interactive TV - Things to do and places to go once you are connected |