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WebEx Pilot for Student Use

WebEx is a real-time, collaborative web meeting and conferencing tool. All Cornell faculty and staff with a NetID can use this service at no cost, and starting this summer, a limited number of students will also be able to–a pilot is launching that will allow several hundred students access to WebEx for use in their coursework.

Pilot access for students needs to be requested by a faculty member. After the request is made, depending on the availability of pilot licenses, an account will be provisioned. Spots in the pilot are first come, first serve, and licenses are limited.

Pilot accounts will be active until December 2013, at which point a decision will be made on the usefulness of student access to WebEx. To find out more, please contact Academic Technologies at atc_support@cornell.edu.

Reminder: Register Now for the June 13 IT@Cornell Conference!

The June IT@Cornell Conference is fast approaching! It’s a great time to:

  • Register to attend
  • Volunteer
  • Suggest a poster session you’d like to present

Register

The deadline for registration is Wednesday, June 7. Sign up now to hold your place for breakout sessions and to see the keynote. Some breakout sessions have limited space for attendance—first come, first served. Lunch will be provided at mid-day, and your registration will ensure the order matches up with attendance.

Breakout sessions have been finalized. See a full list when you register and also on the event web site. Breakouts will cover everything from mobile computing to activity related to the IT Strategic Plan to your ideas for the IT Career Framework.

Details about the keynote speaker, Michael Feldstein, and his talk have been announced. Feldstein will talk about “Moving Up the Value Chain.” He says in his abstract: “The trend in educational technology is up. As in up the value chain. It is increasingly no longer acceptable to be merely an infrastructure provider. More and more, we need to be providing solutions to business problems that are recognizable to our users and directly relevant to the institutional mission.” Read the rest of his abstract here.

Register online

Volunteer

If you can take a few notes during breakouts, help with posters, tweet during the event, help assign digital badges (we’ll teach you how) or serve ice-cream at the end of the day, please let us know. The deadline for volunteering is Friday, May 31.

To volunteer, email thefutureofitatcornell@cornell.edu.

Suggest a Poster Session

If you have a poster session idea you’d like to share, we’d love to hear it! Just follow the following steps to start the process:

  1. See the Call for Posters.
  2. Read the guidelines for poster presenters.
  3. Fill out the online application for poster presenters.

The deadline for poster session proposals is Friday, June 7.

Stay in touch!

If you’d like quick updates about the program or event preparation, follow @Cornell_ITEvent on Twitter.

If you have questions, please email them to thefutureofitatcornell@cornell.edu

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