TechTalks Event
Campus and Student Portals: Where Are We Today?
with guest experts
Michael Handberg of PricewaterhouseCoopers;
Oren Sreebny of the University of
Washington; and
Pennie S. Turgeon of Worcester Polytechnic
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October 12, 2000
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This was one of our best and most entertaining sessions! What is a portal? (Are we still asking that?) How are institutions tackling the portal issue? Who's doing what? Does the "academic" model portal differ from the "business" model portal? Build your own or buy off the shelf? Where should you start and what should you do? CREN interviewed three portal experts for you. They represent a great depth and a vast range of expertise and you can listen to the archived audio at your leisure.
Guest Experts
Michael
Handberg is a Principal Consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers,
in Minneapolis. He was formerly with the University of Minnesota
where, among many other roles, he was Director of Enterprise Web
Development. He's been an active presenter at EDUCAUSE and WebDev
annual conferences, and has received the WebdevShare Sallie Mae
Prestige Award. He's a member of the Minnesota team which was named
a "best practice" partner by IBM's Innovation in Student Services
Forum for being innovative in student service delivery and addressing
the fundamental change elements of people, process, and technology.
Oren
Sreebny is Assistant Director of Computing & Communications
(C&C) at the University of Washington.
He oversees the Client Services functions, including responsibility
for consulting, help desk, computer training, account management,
desktop support, and policy issues. Oren has been involved in the
award winning UWired collaboration,
which promotes innovation in teaching and learning through technology,
since its inception in 1994. He is a member of C&C's Security Infrastructure
Team, which is grappling with thorny issues of secure architectures
for widely distributed computing. Lately, Oren has been participating
in the rollout and design of MyUW,
the UW's portal system, where he is currently herding the cats
towards a design of a portal view for teaching faculty.
Oren had ten years experience in database and software development
in the commercial sector prior to coming to the UW in 1994. Before
getting professionally involved in technology he had a ten-year
career in the music world, playing bass in blues, R&B, and jazz
groups and doing sound engineering, which allows him to be highly
opinionated on the topics of digital distribution of music and other
art forms.
Pennie
Turgeon is the Director of Instructional Media and Distance
Learnin for the division of Information Technology at Worcester
Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Turgeon, who also received her
MBA from WPI in 1991, is responsible for promoting, developing and
supporting the use of information technology in teaching, learning
and scholarship. Over her tenure at WPI, she has worked on a variety
of educational technology initiatives including the design, build
and ongoing support of the University's satellite and videoconferencing
facilities, electronic classrooms, multimedia resource lab and various
other media production, editing and conversion services in support
of the faculty at WPI. She also has overall responsibility for the
University's distance learning operation - the Advanced Distance
Learning Network. More recently, she was the team leader for the
selection and implementation of WPI's course management system and
is currently the project manager for the
ongoing implementation of the University's information and learning
portal - myWPI.
Co-Hosts
Howard Strauss, Manager of Academic Applications at Princeton University and all-around Web and portal guru, is TechTalk's Technology Anchor.
Co-Host Terry Calhoun is the Director of Electronic Communications for the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) and owner of the University Web Developer's List (UWEBD). Together, Howard and Terry will ask the really tough questions—and relay the questions you email to them at expert@cren.net.
Background & Resources
Previously-archived CREN Tech Talks, with streaming audio, transcribed audio to read, and hyperlinked resource lists, are great, bookmarkable resources. Here are a couple of earlier CREN events about campus portals: What Is a Portal? (01/00) (linked as part of this resource are 28 Questions and Brief Answers on Portals by Howard Strauss); and Preparing for Campus Portals with Christine Geith and Collette Wagner (03/30/00)
Howard thinks we may want you to visit "MyHarvard" and has ferreted out "dummy" passwords to get you in there both as a student and as a faculty member. To go in as a student, user name (HUID): 00000000 and password (PIN): 000000. To go in as a faculty member, user name (HUID): 11111111 and password (PIN): 000000.
Pennie has also supplied us with some of her favorite "portal" hyperlinks. They include:
- One she will certainly refer to, WPI's learning and information portal - MyWPI
- just out in Educause Quarterly, November 3, 2000: Building a Personalized Education Portal by Robin R. Ethridge, Cynthia M. Hadden, and Michael P. Smith (pdf)
- Connolly, Christopher C., "From Static Web Site to Portal," Educause Quarterly, Volume 23, Number 2, 2000
- Keel, Kent, "Can Portals Make a Difference in the Work of Educators," Industry Perspective, T.H.E. Journal, August, 2000
- Looney, Michael and Lyman, Peter, "Portals in Higher Education," Educause Review, July/August, 2000
- Eisler, David, "The Portals Progress: Gateways for Access, Information, and Learning Communities," Syllabus, Volume 14, Number 1, September, 2000, pages 12-18
- Gilbert, Steven, "Portal Decisions demand Collaboration - Can Portals Support It?," Technology Implementation, Syllabus, Volume 14, Number 1, September, 2000, pages 30-31
