Case Western Reserve University will highlight new technologies and how they enhance research and discovery during its campus Collaboration Technologies Summit 2008 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 8 in Thwing Center. In addition, the keynote and panels will be streamed in ClevelandPlus in SecondLife.
All university faculty, staff, students, alumni, neighborhood and community partners are invited to attend the symposium and demonstration event—that will be conducted simultaneously at collaborative sites throughout world.
The event will feature a keynote address by Anthony D. Williams. An author, researcher and consultant, Williams's latest project is the bestselling book (co-authored with Don Tapscott) called Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything.
Two panels at the summit will be anchored by Campus Computing Project Director, Dr. Kenneth Green, Visiting Scholar at Claremont Colleges. The first panel is titled Making Sense of the explosion of Web 2.0 tools and their relevance and consequence in Higher Education. Panelists include educators and faculty leaders from Case Western Reserve University, University of Southern California, Bradley University, and Researchers from IBM. At the end of the day-long event Green will host a panel called Collaboration Technology—What's Next?: Bold Predictions, Cautionary Notes and Take Away Lessons. Panelists include leaders from Case Western Reserve University, Tri-C, MIT, and the co-founder of SecondLife, Cory Ondrejka.
Featured at the Summit will be demonstrations of the launch of the University Circle Wireless Mesh with Cleveland-based OneCommunity,
Details of the Summit, including registration information, can be found at http://www.case.edu/its/collabtech08/collabtech08.html
The conference is free.
The Collaborative Technologies Summit 2008 is sponsored by Case Western Reserve's Information Technology Services, University Library, University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education, Office of the Provost, Human Resources, Faculty Senate Committee on Information Resources and Council of Technology Officers. Corporate underwriting comes from IBM, Cisco, EMC, Dell, OneCommunity, Mobile Discovery, and PerceptIS.
Posted by: Heidi Cool, April 18, 2008 10:12 AM | News Topics: Conferences/Symposia, Events, Faculty, HeadlinesMain, Staff, Students, Technology, news
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