Conference

• David Germano on SHANTI Cohorts
• Mike McPherson on Lab Transitions and the SSBL project
• LSP-TAG and results of Professional Development poll
• Update on Microsoft IT Academy
• LSP Steering Committee elections: LSP-ASPS and LSP At-Large
• ITC Announcements and other business

• Dale Castle, Information Security Analyst, Information Security, Policy and Records Office

Web application security is the number two priority according to SANS in a recent report. AppScan can help identify the most common ways that hackers gain access to web applications. Learn how reports zero in on the vulnerability and explain how to remove it to secure the web application.

• Jean Bauer, Historian, Technologist (http://www.jeanbauer.com/)

Project Quincy is a Ruby on Rails application with a MySQL database that uses information about people, places, and organizations to trace how social networks and institutions develop over time and through space.

• Michael Koenig, Director MBA Operations, Darden Graduate School of Business
• Karen King, Director, Darden Library

The University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business is partnering with Amazon to pilot the new Kindle DX eReader into one section (62 students and 10 faculty) of the incoming Full-Time MBA program for the 09-10 academic year.  Darden is one of seven universities across the nation taking part in this partnership to pilot the Kindle DX. The purpose of the pilot is to assess the e-book technology and its impact on teaching and learning both in and out of the classroom. The Kindle DX is typically used as an electronic book reader; however, the Darden pilot is unique in that it requires the conversion of numerous case materials into the Kindle format. This session will provide a brief overview of the current program design, a current status regarding its implementation, and then an open discussion and Q&A session to garner feedback from participants on their ideas, interests and concerns regarding eReaders and their potential impact on higher education moving forward.

Opening remarks by Virginia Delegate Rob Bell, who strengthened Virginia’s identity theft laws to support victims (HB2402), followed by presentation on preventing identity theft, information on safe Internet shopping, general computer and Internet security, and important information about the coming rollout of the enhanced version of NetBadge.

• Michael McPherson, Associate Vice President and Deputy Chief Information Officer
• Robin Ruggaber, Network Systems Manager, ITC
• Chris Husser,Director of Technology Services, Dean of Students, Student Affairs

Mike McPherson will lead a panel discussion on how supervisors can work with LSPs to develop goals that advance your department’s computing efforts.

• Marty Peterman, IT Security Specialist, Information Security, Policy and Records Office
• Hamp Carruth, Manager, Unix Systems Group

UVa Departments are in the regular habit of running Identity Finder.  Since each department has unique data remediation needs, Identity Finder is used differently by each department.  Come to this panel session to learn how a variety of methods have been employed to search for SSN.

• James Weissman and Dave Matt, Darden Enterprise Systems

The MBA for Executives is a graduate MBA program designed for working professionals. It has the identical curriculum and faculty as the fulltime residential program but is delivered with a combination of on grounds residencies and approximately 1/3 through distance education.

To fill that one third effectively, the MBAExec team has utilized a number of tools and services that will be discussed in this session. Discussion topics include:

•    Blackboard/WebCT - online Learning Management Systems (LMS)
•    Microsoft Office SharePoint Server - powerful server technologies for deploying websites
•    Microsoft SharePoint Learning Kit - SCORM compliant tool to turn SharePoint documents into trackable assignments
•    Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional (aka “Connect” formerly “Breeze”) – web-conferencing software
•    TechSmith Camtasia Studio - screen capture software
•    JK Audio innKeeper PBX - telephone/VOIP hybrid broadcast system
•    Premiere Global - telephone audio conferencing service
•    NowComment - web-based document commentary tool

The session will mostly be a “show and tell.”

• Sue Haas, Director Of IT, University Human Resources

A discussion on how LSPs can proactively write smart goals for themselves that align with the mission of the University and with their departments in relation to the current roll out of the new Performance Management tool and process at UVA. We will discuss what a SMART goal is, how it can be formulated, what to expect in the new process, what to expect from the tool, and how LSPs can get the most out of the goal setting process.

• Carey Hill, Web Communications Assistant, UVA Office of Web Communications

• Jamie Orchard-Hays, Dang.com

Dabble DB helps you create online databases to manage, share and explore data and to build web applications. Jamie Orchard-Hays is a web developer and Ruby enthusiast from Charlottesville.

• Yitna Firdyiwek, Instructional Technology Advisor, ITC

Link Tool is a tool in Collab that allows instructors and site owners to add external applications to their course or collaboration sites using web services.  Link Tool has currently been used with applications built in Perl, PHP, ColdFusion, Ruby On Rails, and .Net.  In this presentation we will explain the tool, the installation process, and some policy issues regarding information exchange between Collab and the external applications. Anyone who has applications they would like to use in the Collab framework is invited to attend.
NowComment

• Dan Doernberg, President, Fairness.com LLC

NowComment.com® is an online commenting tool that lets groups of any size have focused, threaded conversations about specific sentences and paragraphs in a document. UVA will have university-wide access to NowComment through Shanti in January 2009 (it’s available now for those who want to use it). Today’s presentation will provide a brief demo of the software and address support issues.