Program

ResNet 2007 Program
The Program Committee thanks everyone who submitted presentation proposals for this year's conference. We have diverse and exciting presentations from the six themes as outlined below. Please view the conference schedule.

Presenters: You may return to the ResNet Submission site to review your submission details.

Professional Development Seminar
The Professional Development Seminars (PDS) take place prior to the regular Program Schedule and are an excellent way to expand your mind at the annual ResNet Symposium. See the PDS site for more information or contact Judi Rennie email: Judi.Rennie -at- tufts.edu

The ResNet Symposium is the premier gathering for professionals at the intersection of IT, academics, and college/university housing. The Symposium offers attendees a variety of opportunities to learn about new technologies, investigate support models, develop staff management techniques, discuss academic initiatives, and interact with peers and colleagues. The ResNet 2007 Program Committee enables these opportunities, organizes the program, and meets the needs of attendees.

The core of the program and Symposium are the presentations. While many presenters have presented at a variety of conferences, such as SIGUCCS, EDUCAUSE, etc., the Symposium also provides the opportunity for first time presenters to share their ideas with the Resnet community. Theme Guides as well as the Presenter Preparation Committee provide support and information to all presenters who desire feedback prior to the Symposium.

Presentation content is guided by the following themes:

Program Themes

Future of ResNet (ResNet Fast Forward)
Theme Guides:
Rob See
Jan Gerenstein
What does the future of ResNet look like at your university? Do you have plans underway for big changes, or are you doing something new that takes your ResNet service to the cutting edge? Share your plans and successes. Topics might include: outsourcing ResNet, developing new IT partnerships for delivering the ResNet service, new ResNet support models, redefining your ResNet Service Level Agreements, creating new pay for service models, identity management, and any other NEW twists on the old ResNet theme.

Education and Learning Technologies
Theme Guides:
Minh Vuong
Sarah Hosken
ResNet provides a link between residential students and the classroom. Are you taking advantage of this by providing unique learning opportunities to your residents, or is someone at your university implementing new learning technologies for students at your school, residential or otherwise? Get your academic folks involved and present on topics such as "Linking Learning", classroom technologies, academic partnerships with ResNet, providing learning technologies in residences, residential learning communities, mobile learning technologies, social networking, adaptive technologies and more!

ResNet Operations
Theme Guides:
Teresa Pearson
Bill Smith
What does it take to make the ResNet service run at your university? Share your innovative ideas and operational successes (or failures) with your ResNet colleagues from across North America. Topics could include: staffing your ResNet service, ResNet knowledge management, solutions for ResNet support issues, evaluating your ResNet service and/or staff, drop-in service delivery, telephone support processes, training ResNet staff, and more!

Security and Policy
Theme Guides:
Philip Veenstra
Sheila Crowe
The work never ends when it comes to securing the residential network. Share your solutions for ResNet security, including dealing with virus and spyware invasions and intrusion detection/prevention. Educate your ResNet peers on the policies you have put in place to guide your residential clients in the area of virus protection, copyright infringement and privacy.

Cool Tools
Theme Guides:
Adam Brock
John Rocchio
Over the years, many of you have developed or embraced innovative homegrown or commercial software and hardware solutions to help you implement and maintain your ResNet services. Share your ups and downs and provide the geek factor we love to indulge in at ResNet symposiums. Think mobile, gadgets, software, video, mapping, handheld devices, websites and more!

Leadership and Management
Theme Guides:
Jeremy Buenviaje
Victoria Arnold
The success of any service is its ability to maintain agility while pursuing clear goals and direction. Strong management policies and functions impact on organizational success and often involve positive leadership. What management or leadership approaches work in your organization? Relevant topics may include project management, planning processes, hiring policies, committees, mentoring, partnerships, leadership training, strategic planning, budgets, document management, effective communications and staff development.

These themes are meant as flexible guidelines, not rigid categories. Proposals that do not fit neatly into a particular theme, or that straddle the boundary between themes, are certainly welcome.

Presentations may be in any of three formats:

Lecture. Usually presented by one or two speakers, with about three-quarters of the allotted time for presentation and the remaining quarter for questions and answers.

Panel. Usually presented by three or four panelists from a variety of institutions or with differing perspectives. Panel presentations allow the audience to consider several different models simultaneously and to consider options that might fit into their environments.

Birds-of-a-Feather. BoFs are moderated discussions centered on ResNet topics of interest. BoFs tend to be informal in nature. While some are scheduled in advance, many are developed on the fly as interests and topics emerge during the Symposium.

For information about programs or participation in the 2007 program committee, contact Gayleen Gray.
email: ggray -at- uoguelph.ca