Lightning Round of Innovative Work and Projects Copyright Joann Martyn, Joyce Esterman, Tracy Mitrano, Mark D. Strandskov, Tobias Nownes, Jacques Du Plessis, Jiatyan Chen, Ralph Shank, Uttra Singh and the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents This work is the intellectual property of the authors. Permission is granted for this material to be shared for non- commercial, educational purposes, provided that this copyright statement appears on the reproduced materials and notice is given that the copying is by permission of the authors. To disseminate otherwise or to republish requires written permission from the authors. EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2007

Lightning Round of Innovative Work and Projects 1. Visual Assignments 2. Communication, Collaboration, Self-Service 3. Blogging for Course Instruction 4. Enterprise /Calendaring Solution 5. Virtual Labs 6. Working Around Limitations 7. InCommon Federation and Campus Participation 8. Network Managers: Get Your Lives Back! Facilitated by David Stack, UW–Milwaukee

Achieving Curricular Goals Through Visual Assignments Joann Martyn Academic Computing Coordinator, Arts, Performance, Recreation Carleton College Lance T. McCready, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Urban Education Dept. of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning OISE, University of Toronto

Context Introduction to Educational Studies Examines the current state of education through the lens of “clashing views” on controversial issues. Multicultural Education Provides students with a chance to understand his or her place in the multicultural, multiethnic, multinational country that is the United States. Courses broadly focused on Foundations of Education.

Introduction to Educational Studies Documentary Film assignment –To explore a controversial topic in education using a documentary film format

Multicultural Education Digital Memoir assignment –to use scanned photographs, found images on the web, music, and voiceover to tell a story about an experience or event in which you gained a greater awareness of your racial/ethnic identity in a globalized world.

Assignment Evolution Collaborative Creation Both involved through the entire process Informal conversation led to project

Those technical details… Technical Training Equipment Server Space Final steps support

Results Did the projects meet the goals of the classes? –Yes Done Differently? –More time for students to critically discuss the projects through writing activities and dyad conversations. –Lengthen the 10-week term! –Use the projects as a teaching tool for audiences beyond the class.

Portal Communication, Collaboration and Self-Service Xavier University Joyce Esterman

Creighton Blogging System Open Source Instructional Tool

Faculty Survey May 2nd Sent out survey 903 Faculty members (Full & Part-time) Received 51 responses Departments represented in responses –Medicine –Pharmacy –College of Business –Arts & Sciences

Do you have a blog? 44 No 7 Yes 25 Yes 23 No Are you interested in blogging? Would you use a CU blog? 14 No 7 Yes 28 responded 28 responded “I would have to see it first”

Search Parameters Customizable Linux Free Open Source (Free and Customizable) Runs on Linux Written in PHP Healthy developer community Open Source (Free and Customizable) Runs on Linux Written in PHP Healthy developer community

Initial Feature Requests Password Protection Images Multiple Authors  Custom URL

WordPress for Multiple Blogs Implementation –.htaccess file can use pass-thru rewrites or aliasing to map multiple URLS to one file –Configuration for wordpress is PHP Use the value of the request URI to dynamically load Configuration values - by setting the database prefix –Tie in with the Active Directory –Group blogs entitled from files Configuration dynamically driven from URL –Really need to validate that URL well! –...but setup is automatic on first visit!

Caveats WordPress not built for this –Work with WordPress developers to make it work –Changing the WordPress code base in isolation means no upgrading... and that's bad Delays, but worth it to "do it right" Users like media... uploads... Size... –Since it's all owned by www - quotas won't quite work Security... –Since it's all owned by www, well, yikes

Resulting Application Security Limitations –Common Themes –Safe Options –No editing themes or plug-ins Custom Features –Category Subscription –Subscription Page –Music Player

Launching Creighton Blogs Launched Beginning September 2006 Soft Launch Presentations –IDD Demo - Introducing CU Blogs –Jacobson Chair - Hands-on Blogging –Breakfast Bytes - Blueberry Blogs Total number of users as of Feb. 19th

Future Features Footnotes Individual Glossary Simple Polling Math Publisher Podcasting

Collaboration Suite Procurement Process Jacques du Plessis School of Information Studies UWM

The Process / RFP / Communication The Problem –A representative campus-wide committee –Keeping everybody on the same page The Solution –Intranet-based group anchor –Doc repository –Website future.uwm.edu –Not dependent on frequent F2F meetings

The Process / RFP / Communication Network, network, network –Sample RFPs from vendors –Other Universities –Industry leaders –Expertise inside UWM –Understanding what you are asking for

The Process / RFP / Communication Committee chair has little leverage on campus Need strong communicative support from the CIO and provost to all university constituents. Website with streaming media, and data Emphasize inclusiveness, openness Personally meet with each group (Outlook, Groupwise, etc.) Do surveys, advertise the website All-in-one-day finalist demos to campus. (3 vendors or less)

Jacques du Plessis School of Information Studies, UWM

Virtual Labs Michigan State University Virtual University Design & Technology Jiatyan Chen

Reactions

Cross Departments

Ralph Shank and Uttra Singh “Working Around Limitations”

EngageEducateEnable Working Around Limitations Needs Analysis Research Content Management System CONTENTdm as Campus-wide Solution Discussions Training/Support Research Evaluation

Technology Adoption Paper Documentation Group Training One-on-one Training Campus-wide Solution Collaboration Evaluation Research Evaluation Instructional Video Needs Analysis Innovative Faculty Collaboration Building Relationships Showcase Working Around Limitations EngageEducateEnable

Need Analysis Innovative Faculty Instructional Webpages Blogs and RSS Luncheon Sessions UIS on iTunes U Collaboration Evaluation First Podcast and Vodcast iTunes U Colleagues Students Faculty Online Resources Working Around Limitations EngageEducateEnable

Needs Analysis Collaboration Innovative Faculty Build Relationships Research Showcase Competence Development Training/Support Evaluation Engage Educate Enable Technology Adoption/New Tools Campus-wide Solutions Learning Environment

The Partnership Challenge Higher education’s missions are realized in increasingly global, collaborative, online relationships –Higher educations’ digital collections, data, and resources –External services and resource partners How many relationships do you manage? Tracy Mitrano

How much time is spent on the differing, one-off requirements for each partner? How much risk do these one-off implementations bring to your network, to the control of private data? The Partnership Challenge

The Partnership Solution Wouldn’t it be great if we could: developed and implemented solutions that efficiently use our existing information infrastructures securely and safely InCommon economizes the time and resources that otherwise would be spent on the differing “one off” requirements for each individual partner deal with each partner in the same way; saving time and reducing risk InCommon maximizes security and privacy of personally identifiable/sensitive information

Wouldn’t it be great if we could: richer, easier to use, safer online experience for Penn State students, faculty, and staff.” securely and safely in such a way that we maintain control over the release of personal information for people This is what federations are created to do The Partnership Solution

Identity Management Federations aka Access Management Federations A definition of Federation: A collaboration of independent entities that give up a certain degree of autonomy to a central authority in pursuit of a common set of goals. Identity Management Federations set common policies, technical interoperability criteria, and provide central services to establish and maintain trust (Central Authority) Identity Management Federations enable scalable, trustworthy, secure online partnerships (Common Goals)

Attributes: Anonymous ID, Staff, Student, … Online Resource Federated Access in 30 seconds Home Institution Metadata, certificates, common attributes & meaning, federation registration authority, Shibboleth, pinch of magic 4. If attributes are acceptable, access is granted! 3. Authorization: Privacy- preserving exchange of agreed upon attributes 2. Federation-based Trust exchange to verify partners and locations 1. Authentication: Single- Sign-On to existing Home Institution

The Value of InCommon Broadly Put Identity Providers (Home Institutions) control user accounts and the release of personal information Online services get to focus maintaining online resources – and standards-based access controls to them – and not on user account management Partners can quickly and securely deploy new collaborations and service relationships

The Value of InCommon Finely Put Governance by a Representative Steering Committee –Formulates policy and shared direction –Ensures services meet business needs with appropriate security levels and legal requirements –Establishes and communicate scalable operational standards and practices –Establishes a common set of attributes and definitions Legal Agreement –Basic Responsibilities, Official Signatory and Establishment of Trust, Conflict and Dispute Resolution, Basic Protections Trust “Notary” –InCommon verifies the identity of organizations and their delegated officers; Trusted Metadata –InCommon verifies & aggregates security information for each participant’s servers, systems, and support contacts Certificate Authority –InCommon issues server certificates to Participants for secure communications Standards for Policies and Practices –How high is the bar? Right now, each Participant decides. Participants self-declare their practices to other Participants Technical Interoperability (Technical Advisory Committee) –InCommon defines shared attributes, standards (SAML), software (Shibboleth)

Internet2 InCommon Governance Federation Operator & Business Office Federation Operator & Business Office Technical Advisory Committee Technical Advisory Committee Nominations Committee Nominations Committee Steering Committee Representative of Higher Ed & its Partners Steering Committee Representative of Higher Ed & its Partners Direction Candidate Approvals Advice

45 Current InCommon Participants Case Western Reserve University Clemson University Cornell University Dartmouth Duke University Florida State University Georgetown University Miami University New York University Ohio University Penn State Stanford University Stony Brook University SUNY Buffalo The Ohio State University The University of Chicago University of Alabama at Birmingham University of California, Irvine University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Merced University of California, Office of the President University of California, Riverside University of California, San Diego University of Maryland University of Maryland Baltimore County University of Maryland, Baltimore University of Rochester University of Southern California University of Virginia University of Washington University of Wisconsin - Madison Cdigix EBSCO Publishing Elsevier ScienceDirect Houston Academy of Medicine - Texas Medical Center Library Internet2 JSTOR Napster, LLC OCLC OhioLink - The Ohio Library & Information Network ProtectNetwork Symplicity Corporation Thomson Learning, Inc. Turnitin WebAssign NEXT? U.S. eAuthentication Federation and Agencies: –NSF (FastLane, …) –NIH (Grants Administration, …) –Dept. of Education (Student Financial Aid, …) Federations within the InCommon Federation –University Systems –Coalitions of Universities organized around Networks, Grids, others… Higher Education (31) Sponsored Partners (14)

Network Managers - Get Your Lives Back! Educause Midwest Regional Conference 2007 Mark Strandskov Network Manager Central Michigan University

Security Model

Contact Information Mark Strandskov, Network Manager CMU Information Technology Ryan Laus, Associate Network Manager CMU Information Technology

Questions for our Panel? Feel free to continue discussions in the lounge, lobby or over dinner Many thanks to Lida Larsen & Leslie DeGrassi of EDUCAUSE!!!