Video & Data Manager Training Sessions
(conference registration required)

The NJEDge.Net Annual Conference Program Committee has a special track filled with all the data and video nethead info you can handle. We have scheduled a custom suite of training sessions that will prepare you to maximize your NJEDge network connection and help you get ready to run as fast as you can into the new world of web services.

Our preconference workshop, Monday 2 pm - 5 pm, provides the latest training on the new Video Portal management application from Polycom called "Web Commander." Web Commander is the tool you need to use for easy management of formal video conferences. NJEDge members need to talk "Web Commander" for achieving complete control of portal-based videoconferences from your own campus through just a browser interface. This training is open ONLY to data and video staff (and limited to the first 22 participants) and is a right of passage towards trouble-free video connectivity. Survivors will be rewarded with dinner and kickoff reception. We'll close out the evening with our "Beers Around the World" event that is guaranteed to help you deal with jitter and latency. Sign up for this best practice training session by clicking here to register for our Annual Conference, including training sessions.

Tuesday's training focuses on Click to Meet 4.0 from 10:30 am - 12:30 pm. This training will be given by Gary Dietz and Alan Casey of First Virtual Communication and gets you ready to manage desktop or room system conferences with a focus on key factors such as software installation; complete review of features and functions; understanding key camera and microphone requirements, managing a small-group or coordinating a highly interactive collaboration. Learn how your peers are using Click to Meet in the K-20 arena for instructions, unique project-based work, and staff enrichment. The training session will end with a "drop-dead neat-o" door prize.

Tuesday features keynote speakers Mark Miliron, from the League of Innovation, and Kenneth Green, Howard Strauss and Steve Worona discussing issues involving students and online music. Afternoon sessions will include demonstrations featuring: live performances from the New Jersey Performing Arts Center; Lecture 123 software for faculty; Access Grids and Statewide Videoconferencing; K-20 Outreach Initiatives; and A Window to the World's Moving Images. On Wednesday you will hear about strategic IT investments for higher education by the Gartner's Group, Michael Zastocky. Wednesday demonstration sessions will include International Videoconferencing and the Internet2 Commons. These demonstrations are key to any video plans you are facing in 2005.

Time to get ready for our data tracks. Are you using the latest tools for virus and spam filtering? Do you know about the radio frequency RF factors affecting wireless LAN performance? How do data network configurations impact IP video? What are you doing about Shibboleth/LDAP/authentication technology? Sign up for these training sessions and get the answers you need from key technologists with real-world experience.

A highlight on Wednesday is the Verizon Enterprise luncheon for data and video staff on VoIP VPN and hosted IP telephony. Verizon has product announcements that will affect VoIP buying decisions. Schedule your time on Wednesday to hear where this Fortune 50 company is going with this new technology.

In between training sessions, you will participate in a broad array of key plenary sessions covering the latest trends and topics in higher education. Plan on networking with our 26 vendors who will be displaying their wares in our exhibit halls and connecting with your peers from across the State. Tuesday night we'll play dress up and attend our cocktail reception and banquet.

Details about the conference, exhibitors and training sessions are available at http://www.njedge.net/conference2004.

If you have already registered for the conference but need to make changes in your itinerary to include Web Commander training, please use this form. Contact Genti Price at the NJEDge.Net office via email or by calling 973 596-5491 if you have any questions or want to upgrade your conference.

 

 

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