TechTalks Event
Designing & Using Collaborative Environments
with guest experts Randy Wiemer and Nate Wilken
May 25, 2000
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Why collaborate online instead of face to face?
What are the advantages and disadvantages? What
are some of the features of on-line collaboration? What
is a public folder? How do they improve collaboration?
What are the pros and cons of using email as a collaborative
tool? What is new in e-mail to make it more useful? Anything
new coming?Which are the most popular tools right now?
What new tools are coming soon? Do students, faculty,
and staff collaborate in different ways? Are there different
kinds of collaborations that they might do?
Come and listen in on May 25 to skim the leading edge with CREN. Plan now to send in your questions to expert@cren.net and join Howard and Judith on Thursday, May 25 as they explore, with guest experts Randy Wiemer of the University of Missouri System Office & Nate Wilken from Arizona State University, the latest in Designing & Using Collaborative Environments!
Guest Experts
Randy
Wiemer is Associate Director of Information Technology for the
University of Missouri System where he is responsible for coordinating
IT activities across the University's four campuses and outreach
and extension programs. He is presently involved in an Active Directory
migration along with a single (reduced) sign-on and account management
system, a.k.a., meta-directory. Since 1997 he has worked to deploy
a unified email system using Microsoft Exchange. Previously he was
involved in implementing a data warehouse and constructing Web-based
transactional systems using the data warehouse. He holds a Bachelors
degree in Mathematics from Drury College, and a Law degree and a
Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Nate Wilken is a Senior Applications Systems Analyst
for Information Technology at Arizona State University. His group,
ASU Web and Messaging Applications and Consulting, is responsible
for the support and development of the Web and messaging systems
and software used by over 50,000 Students and Employees at the University.
He is the lead manager of the Exchange server complex and coordinate
development and support efforts for the Exchange organization. Nate
holda a BS in Mathematics and Mathematics/Computer Science from
Purdue University and is currently pursuing a Master's degree in
Computer Science at ASU.
Co-Hosts
Howard Strauss, Manager of Academic Applications at Princeton
University, is TechTalk's Technology Anchor.
Co-Host Judith Boettcher is CREN's Executive Director.
Together, Howard and Judith will ask the really tough questions—and
relay the questions you email to them at expert@cren.net.
Background & Resources
Randy has shared with us the URL for the University of Missouri Email Initiative, www.system.missouri.edu/exchange/, which is implementing MS Exchange in replacement of a myriad of other email systems in order to facilitate collaboration among staff, faculty, and students.
A great background paper is Space, Collaboration, and the Credible City: Academic Work in the Virtual University by Stephen R. Acker.
Stephen has also shared with us the URLs of some resources he suggested are also valuable as background:
- From the UsabilityFirst website, a general overview of groupware, computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), and associated design and usability issues.
- UsabilityFirst also has good, comprehensive index to CSCW & Groupware resources. For an in depth case study of how faculty at a large institution use technology tools to collaborate with each other and with students, turn to The Technology Source for a review paper, How Using Technology Affects the Learning Process and Faculty Behavior by Nancy Millichap, which itself links to 24 detailed faculty case studies.
