TUTORIALS

SIGUCCS half-day pre-conference tutorials offer participants the opportunity to focus intensively on a particular area of interest prior to the actual start of the conference. They present an opportunity to meet with peers interested in a specific topic, brainstorm with instructors, and learn about a specific area more in-depth. Tutorials are held on Sunday, November 06, 2005.

Morning Tutorials, 8:30 - Noon:

1. David Todd: Patton or Gandhi: What Kind of Leader Are You?
2. Ben Salzberg: Managing MacOS X Labs (Hands-on)
3. Don Paulsen: Project Management for the Real World
4. Kenneth Janz and Susan Owen: Designing Effective Faculty Development Programs

Afternoon Tutorials, 1:00 - 4:30:

5. Sue Perin: Hiring and Managing Student Workers
6. Bryan Alexander: Social Software: Blogs, Wikis, and More (Hands-on)
7. Joe St. Sauver: Keeping Your Network Safe: Client Security Policy and Practices

Tutorial Details

1.) David Todd: Patton or Gandhi: What Kind of Leader Are You?

Leadership manifests itself in many different forms and at all levels of an organization. This interactive tutorial will review different styles of leadership and the roles they play in an organization. The objective of the tutorial is to help participants recognize leadership styles (their own and others’), to learn how to use their own style to their advantage, and to mentor their staff to take best advantage of their leadership abilities.

David Todd is Vice Provost and CIO at the University of San Diego. He is on the faculty of the Educause Leadership Institute and has presented with colleagues routinely at Educause on IT leadership and management issues.

2.) Ben Salzberg: Managing MacOS X Labs (Hands-on)

Learn hands-on how to create a well-managed and secure MacOS X lab with great uptime and usability. We will image machines, set up authentication and login scripts to customize behavior, and address day-to-day management including maintenance and modifications. This tutorial includes lecture, handouts, and hands-on experience.

Ben Salzberg works as a User Support Specialist at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, where he manages hundreds of OS X lab machines.

3.) Don Paulsen: Project Management for the Real World

Though many of us manage projects (sometimes a LOT of projects!) few of us have formal project management training. And too often it seems that we don't have the resources or the authority we feel we need to be successful. This tutorial will help you succeed. Specific areas of discussion will include:

• Initiating projects and the importance of the project charter
  
• Planning projects including the development of schedule, budget, staffing, communication, and risk management plans
  
• Executing and controlling projects including performance monitoring and change control
  
• Closing projects and the importance of historicalinformation, lessons learned, and celebrating success.

Don Paulsen is Manager of Information Technology at Iowa State University. He is a member of Project Management Institute (PMI). He has passed his exams and is now a Project Management Professional.

4.) Kenneth Janz and Susan Owen: Designing Effective Faculty
Development Programs

In this tutorial you will learn how to create or improve a faculty development program, with an emphasis on meeting the unique needs of faculty at your institution. We will focus on:

• Understanding of faculty as a community of learners
  
• Creating and conducting assessments to identify the needs of faculty
  
• Finding and using strategies to tailor instruction to the diverse needs of faculty
  
• Articulating and implementing elements of a multidimensional professional development program

Kenneth Janz is the Director of Instructional and Research Technology Services at Indiana State University. Susan Owen is the Assistant Director of Instructional and Research Technology Services at Indiana State University.

5.) Sue Perin: Hiring and Managing Student Workers

This tutorial will cover the essentials of managing student workers through their employment lifecycle from hiring to termination. You will:

• Learn proven techniques for identifying resources and presenting them in ways that student workers are motivated to use.
  
• Learn how to be consistent and fair while holding student workers accountable for their actions.
  
• Collect examples of proven techniques and management tools.
  
• Take a tour of an in-house created electronic Personnel Information Environment (PIE) used to manage all aspects of the student employment
  
• Gain access to an online Student Employment Handbook that leaves no one in the dark regarding expectations for employment.

Susan Perin is the Manager of Student Technology Consulting at Indiana University Bloomington and Indianapolis.

6.) Bryan Alexander: Social Software: Blogs, Wikis, and More (Hands-on)

Bryan Alexander is Director for Emerging Technologies at the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, and works from the Center for Educational Technology at Middlebury College, where he researches and develops programs on the advanced uses of information technology in liberal arts colleges. A PhD graduate of the University of Michigan, he taught English and information technology studies as faculty at Centenary College of Louisiana. His primary research interests concern mobile and wireless computing, digital gaming, and social software. Other interests include digital writing, copyright and intellectual property, information literacy, project management, information design, and interdisciplinary collaboration. He maintains and contributes to a series of weblogs, including NITLE Tech News (http://www.nitle.org/tech_news) and Smartmobs (http://www.smartmobs.com). Committed to exploring computer-mediated pedagogy, he continues to research and write on the critical uses of computers and teaching in terms of interdisciplinary liberal arts and the contemporary development of cyberculture.

7.) Joe St. Sauver: Keeping Your Network Safe: Client Security Policy and Practices

In the face of a constant stream of network security threats, what should you be doing to limit your exposure, and how should you respond when incidents occur? We will discuss attacks including malware, spyware, spam and phishing; and defenses including patching, software and hardware personal firewalls, encryption, password issues, backups, choice of operating system and applications, white-hat scanning, intrusion detection systems, and more.

Joe St Sauver is Director of User Services and Network Applications at the University of Oregon. He is co-chair of the Educause Security Effective Practices group, sits on the Internet2 Security At Line Speed (SALSA) working group, and is one of three technical advisors to the carrier Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG).