Michael Stanclift – Rockhurst College
Would you like to learn how you can save up to 90 percent on your desktop energy costs, while at the same time providing a more secure and reliable workstation for your users in an environment that allows them to run all the same applications and operating systems they could on a traditional PC? Come see how Rockhurst University utilized technology from VMWare, Wyse and other vendors to create a unique desktop virtualization infrastructure for their computer labs.
Tags: Green Computing, Virtualization
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Wayne Neathery - Perry Co 32 and Jeff Warren - School Information Systems
As parents ask for more immediate information about their children’s progress in school, you need to do more than the traditional “send home the report card in the backpack.” The Parent Portal from School Information Systems connects parents with information on assignments and grades, lunch balances, attendance and tardy records and more. And because the data come directly from the district database, it is always up to the minute. Attend this presentation to discover how the SISK12 Parent Portal is being used to create efficient and accurate communication with today’s parents.
Tags: Administration & Leadership
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Charley Steinhaus - MOREnet
MOREnet is implementing Netsweeper as its new Internet Content Filtering solution. In this session, we will review the options of installing Internet filtering locally at your site and how to get started. The management interface is the same as the preceding session (S006: Netsweeper-MOREnet’s New Hosted Content Filtering Tool), so be sure to check out that session for the new interface. This product replaces SmartFilter; it will provide support for https filtering along with some other enhanced features.
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Kevin Kuenker - HP ProCurve Networking
We will review the latest wireless technology from Hewlett Packard and how you can leverage the benefits of controller-based 802.11b/g/n solutions without paying a performance penalty. Wireless security, data encryption, wireless management, guest wireless access and wireless IDS/IPS will be presented.
Tags: Security, Wireless
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Greg Kespohl – MOREnet
As the need for allowance of foreign network devices on our networks increase, so does the need to monitor and control the use of network resources. Users wishing to access the network by smart phone, laptop or other devices outside of administrator control are of great concern to all network administrators. The Zone CD is a free tool that provides authentication and limited bandwidth management virtually without cost. Many schools, public libraries and small businesses in Missouri use Zone CD as an option to help control the usage of personal devices on the wireless network.
Tags: Network Management
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Ben Colley - MOREnet
What are the technologies and topics you have been researching recently? What are the technologies and topics you’d really like to be looking into if only you had more time? Join this roundtable session to share your experiences and find out what others are doing.
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Kevin Gilmore – MOREnet
Have you wondered what you can do to prolong the life of a printer or LCD projector? This session will help you decide when to call for service, or if it’s something that you can repair. The topics that will be covered are cleaning, bulb replacement and troubleshooting of your LCD projector and cleaning, part replacement, diagnostics and troubleshooting your laser printers and inkjet printers.
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Brad Meyerhoff – MOREnet
So many tools, so little time! We hear about new Web 2.0 tools every day but have very little time to go exploring and find useful ways to implement them. In this informational session, we will discuss five of the brightest Web 2.0 tools available and ways they can be used for education.
Tags: Blended Learning, Blog, Cloud Computing, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Distance Learning, Interactive Learning, Mobile Computing, Podcasting, Streaming, Web 2.0, Wiki
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Brad Jones – Wentzville R-IV
Come learn how to use BASH scripting to parse text files so that you can customize export files and create usable import files. Learn how to parse log files quickly and easily, and learn how to interact with LDAP databases. Functionality will be proved to work with OpenLDAP and Netware eDir.
This class will build on the “What is LDAP” class. Bring your own laptop with the ability to access a server via SSH and play along.
Tags: Network Management, Open Source
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Kyle Anderson – Ozark R-6
How to use Microsoft’s free WSUS server application to keep all your Windows clients and servers up to date with critical/security patches and service packs for all Windows, Office and Server applications.
Tags: Security
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