NY SunGard SCT Clients' Day
October 6, 2005
Hosted at St. John's Manhattan Campus,
this seminar
provided the venue for St. John's to network with peers
regarding Banner issues, updates and
functionality.
Summit 2005 - Honolulu, Hawaii
March 7, 2005
Event Management Success Story
Presented by: Maura Woods, St. John’s University
Cisco Systems Higher Education Advanced
Technology Seminar Series
February 2005
Host at St. John's Manhattan Campus, this Higher Education Advanced
Technology (HEAT) Seminar provided invaluable insight on
today's evolving network trends.
Higher Education Technology Strategies
Annual Gartner Higher Ed Meeting
October 2004
Orlando, Florida - Ken
Mahlmeister, User Services Director, represented St. John's
University at the annual Gartner Higher Ed meeting.
Topics discussed included Higher Ed information
technology organizational Issues, Information Security, and
Sourcing Strategies.
2004 IBM ThinkPad University Higher
Education Advisory Council
St. John’s University was represented
at the IBM ThinkPad University Higher Education Advisory Council by
Walter Kerner, Director of Enterprise Network Services.
Topics discussed included IBM Technologies, Customer
based direction on what is important, ThinkVantage Tech portfolio
concepts, ThinkCentre/ThinkVision portfolio, and the ThinkPad
portfolio.
2004 EDUCAUSE
October 2004
Walter Kerner, Director of Enterprise Network Services attended the
annual EDUCAUSE conference. EDUCAUSE has 3 main focuses: Learners,
learning principles and practices, and learning technologies.
Please view the key themes from the 2004 conference here.
m>Business Conference
July 2004
Joe Tufano, Executive Director of St. John’s
University Information Technology, was invited to present on
technology and education. The two main issues covered
were wireless network and laptops in
education.
Japan's National Federation of
University
Co-operative Associations
June 2004
Hosted by St. John's University. National Federation of University
Co-operative Associations (NFUCA), was founded in 1947 and has been
operated by its staff members, consisting of university students
and faculties in nationwide. With 226 university affiliates, the
federation offers students a wide range of products and services
ranging from books and other educational materials to computer
hardware. In order to put PCs to their fullest possible use in
university coursework and research, NFUCA’s role also includes
introducing recommended computer models to freshmen, as well as
case studies of university and student activities and other helpful
information.
3rd Annual Visionary
Conference
May 2004
Hosted by Intel in Washington, DC
Joe Tufano, Executive Director Information Technology, St. John's
University presented on wireless networks and laptops in the
University environment.
2004 Gartner Application Integration and
Services Summit
May 2004
Maura Woods, Director of Application Development, attended
the 2004 Gartner Application Integration and Services Summit.
Topics included leveraging integration software for B2B,
payback of application integration: costs and benefits, and web
services roles and responsibility.
2004 Learning to Change
Conference
April 2004
Hosted by the American Association for Higher Education
A Student-Centered Mobile Computing Initiative: This
presentation deals with implementing a mobile computing initiative.
There are three main issues: how to finance a program, what
technology is needed to implement it, and what faculty development
is required for success. The main pedagogical strategy is to engage
participants in group work. Presenters: Julie Upton, Provost; James
Benson, Chief Information Officer and Director of the University
Libraries; Maura C. Flannery, Director of the Center for
Teaching and Learning; and Bernadette Lavin, Director of
Information Technology.