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KEYNOTE ADDRESS“Swipe Right on Learning”
Rob Curtin Director, Higher Education, Microsoft Education Industry
Rob is the Director of Higher Education for Microsoft’s worldwide education team. Based in Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, WA, he is responsible for global market strategy, and priorities for the Higher Education Industry. He is grateful his role connects him with innovators that share bold goals to transform education and spark innovation in their home countries. Rob is most passionate about the role of technology to guide student ownership of their lifelong learning journey, and helps systems adopt more student-centric engagement models.
Rob has been deploying technology in education for over 25 years. Beginning with IBM in 1988 he implemented the first classroom networks in the Boston Public Schools and joined Microsoft in 1991 - before Excel had the AutoSum button. In the 25 years since joining Microsoft, Rob has been a two-time EdTech entrepreneur, spending a decade working on the Exeter Student Information System (1995-2004), and co-founded Pip Learning Technologies in 2014 providing cloud identity and student privacy services to K-12 school districts. Rob has a combined 15 years with Microsoft, and currently leads programs including Microsoft Innovative Institutions and Campus Connections Summit.
Rob received a B.S. from Northeastern University, his favorite sport is whatever his children are playing that day, and he deeply appreciates his wife for tolerating his travel schedule.
MEEC thanks Microsoft for sponsoring Rob as the keynote for today’s conference.
MEEC: Become a Collaboration Hero Using Microsoft TeamsYou own it, use it. Microsoft Teams is invaluable in connecting staff and information. Learn how MEEC and the USM Offices used Microsoft Teams as a “home base” when dealing with financial reports and services. MEEC Member - 15 Min Fast Track, All
Microsoft, UMUC: Creating a Data-Enabled Institutional Culture to Facilitate Student SuccessLearn how UMUC is embarking upon a digital transformation with the goal of better serving their students, faculty, and staff. UMUC will share how they are integrating workflow processes and best practices with the latest innovations in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and business analytics to improve engagement and drive student and institutional success. MEEC Member and Vendor, All
Microsoft, Community College of Baltimore County: Using Data to Drive Decisions by Leveraging Tools You Already OwnLearn how CCBC has improved business processes and enabled departments across their organization to visualize and analyze data with greater speed, efficiency, and understanding. CCBC has connected users to a broad range of live data through easy-to-use dashboards, interactive reports, and compelling visualizations that bring data to life. MEEC Member and Vendor, All
Mount de Sales Academy: Too Many Emails?! Microsoft Teams & OneNote Can HelpA common complaint is the large volume of emails received daily, taking time away from teachers that could otherwise be used to benefit students. Microsoft OneNote and Teams can save teachers’ time on daily tasks and responsibilities, freeing up time for things such as planning lessons and providing meaningful feedback to students. This session will focus on the use of OneNote to share information and collaborate with other teachers or staff members as well as using Teams to simplify communication and collaborate. This presentation will include basic information about how to use OneNote and Microsoft Teams with examples of success. MEEC Member, All
SLAIT Consulting: How to Create a Modern Ransomware Strategy Government agencies and education institutions are under attack and ransomware is the weapon of choice. Phishing prevention and education have become top of mind across the globe. Security teams and organizations are constantly working to upgrade their systems and provide better protection to their networks. However, the ‘bad guys’ are also constantly developing new techniques. Developing new threats takes time and expense so those looking to get around network security measures often target the weakest link in the security chain, the user. Join SLAIT & Palo Alto Networks to learn how to build a solid prevention strategy so your organization doesn’t become the next Ransomware victim. MEEC Vendor, All
Towson University: Avoid Permanent Local Admin Rights on Desktops and Laptops In college and university environments, it is common to find that faculty and staff wish to be the administrator of their computers. Unfortunately, that is not the best strategy for the safety and management of the desktop and laptop fleet. Using a variety of scripts, web applications, SCCM, and native Active Directory functionality, Towson University’s Office of Technology Services removed permanent administrator rights on nearly all faculty and staff Windows computers. This presentation will explain how to remove permanent administrator rights, offer alternatives for installing software, and review the auditing and exception process to keep your Institutions protected. MEEC Member, Higher-Ed
Wor-Wic Community College: Implementing a VDI Infrastructure Wor-Wic Community College’s IT implementation team will present on the recent deployment of a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environment in support the college’s academic computer labs. Wor-Wic partnered with Dell for this project and Dell will provide a brief overview of their VDI platforms at the end of the presentation. MEEC Member and Vendor, All
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Herb ElkinExecutive Director for IT Services Deputy Chief Information OfficerUnited States Naval Academy
Bill HobbsChief Information OfficerHood College
Parris JacksonDirector, Office of Information TechnologyMaryland Higher Education Commission
Ken KundellChief Information OfficerSalisbury University
Bob KuntzDirector of Operations and InnovationCarroll County Public Library
Bill LeimbachVice President of Technology and PlanningGoucher College
LeAnn McWilliams, Information and Technology Manager Dorchester County Public Schools
Rhonda Spells-FentryVice President for Enterprise TechnologyPrince George’s Community College
Bill PickettChief Information OfficerGlenelg Country School
Donald SpicerAssoc. Vice Chancellor and CIO University System of Maryland
Greg Talley, Ed.D.Telecommunications Coordinator Office of Information TechnologyMaryland State Department of Education
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examples of threats to education institutions, new methods to effectively detect advanced threats, the importance of data correlation, contextual visibility, and threat behavior analysis and how to mitigate advanced threats on Email, Web, and lateral network traffic. MEEC Vendor, All
Dell Technologies & MEEC Members: Managing Data in Motion: Keys to Success Panel discussion with MEEC members led by Deirdre Woods, Senior Education Strategist at Dell Technologies. With the proliferation of data and increasing use of analytics, many campuses have found that old technologies and policies are not adequate to meet current and future needs. Join our panel to hear from campus experts as they share examples of success surrounding data governance, policies, and technological solutions to meet the needs of today’s data driven institution. MEEC Member and Vendor, All
ePlus: Optimize your Defenses: Enhancing Cybersecurity Response with Limited ResourcesThis talk dives into the challenges of an ever expanding threat landscape coupled with the sprawl of cyber security tools and architecture. Organizations today are struggling to respond to the latest threats while maintaining headcount and budgets. We will examine the security platform technologies and the efficiencies gained through interoperability, automation, and orchestration. Clear techniques to examine existing architectures will be explained along with recommendations on how to accelerate and maximize adoption of orchestration techniques. We will close with a review of recent developments in security managed services and incident response that can help augment a lean security operations program. MEEC Vendor, All
Frostburg State University & CCBC: #LMSREVIEW – LMS Reviews are Trending. Learn How Two Campuses Approached Their ReviewsIs your campus planning a Learning Management System (LMS) Review? Not surprisingly, LMS reviews are on the rise and trending. Over the past few years, competition among top LMS vendors has gained momentum and educational institutions have noticed. Customer expectations regarding tools, integrations, services, and price are fueling the competitive fire. IT professionals from Frostburg State University & CCBC reflect on their selection process including factors such as institutional culture, market drivers, planning, user input, assessment, and implementation. Selecting a LMS is challenging but MEEC contract agreements make it easier. Join us to hear our journey, lessons learned, and shared similarities and differences. MEEC Member, Higher-Ed
Goucher College: Fantastic Flows & How to Make ThemI have come up with a process that can help people from varying technical backgrounds understand and design various Flow automations that may help improve the workflow in their organizations. We will begin with processes that Flow helped automate, outline the process, and apply it in a couple examples that were implemented at Goucher College. One example automated the processing of resumes for student workers, renames them and saves them to a shared storage folder accessible by the panel, and then auto-creates an interview page in a shared OneNote book an hour before the scheduled interview with interview questions pre-populated into the page. Other examples include routine mobile reminders and a push-button trigger that notifies attendees of an upcoming calendar event. MEEC Member - 15 Min Fast Track, All
HCGi, Loyola Blakefield: Loyola Blakefield’s 1 to 1 Journey with Microsoft Surface & Office 365Loyola Blakefield will share their experience with researching, planning and rolling out their 1:1 with Microsoft Surface and solutions. This session will illustrate the process and partnerships that helped with Loyola Blakefield’s digital transformation to ultimately prepare their students for success in their future in both college and careers. To learn more, visit http://www.loyolablakefield.org/tech. MEEC Member and Vendor, K-12, Higher-Ed
MEEC: Overview of the 2019 AV Agreement and All MEEC OffersMEEC is about new agreements, AV (Audio Visual), a wealth of established agreements and more! Find out about everything MEEC offers. MEEC Member, All
Andrew Moore - Chair Director of TechnologyHarford County Public Schools
Dwight Raum - SecretaryVP and Chief Technology Officer, Johns Hopkins Health SystemChief Technology Officer, Johns Hopkins UniversityExecutive Director, Johns Hopkins Technology Innovation Center
Ruth F. Gill - Vice ChairDirector, Information Technology Wor-Wic Community College
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Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School: Making Google Classroom Work for ParentsMost parents of students in Google Classroom schools, particularly in Middle School, have complained that Google Classroom provides little or no access to assignments and due dates for parents. This complaint has been particularly widespread in private schools, where other LMS systems provide parents virtually unlimited access to classroom information, assignment descriptions, etc. Google’s solution was to create Parent/Guardian Access, a product that our parents found to be both unreliable and confusing. To answer this need, we have begun to rely on the Classroom Calendar for each class, making it available to parents so that they can see assignments, due dates and a reasonable amount of information (rather than the helicopter parent mother lode that many LMS products provide). We’ll share how we use the Google Classroom calendar in conjunction with PowerSchool’s Parent/Student portal and our website to give parents the right information (and the right amount) when and where they need it. MEEC Member - 15 Min Fast Track, K-12
Chesapeake College: Connect, Organize and Share with O365 With the start of the new Academic Year, our team wanted to find a resource to share, contribute, access and stay informed with others on the team using resources we currently license. Chesapeake, using the MEEC Microsoft Agreement, thought the O365 web resources would be a good solution for our needs. Over the summer (July – August 2018) the team explored Teams, OneNote, and SharePoint. This session will cover the results of this summer pilot including our successes, failures, and ultimate tool selection. MEEC Member, All
Coppin State University: Say “Yes!” To the Profess(or) Coppin State will demonstrate how to use Microsoft’s Azure Lab Services to run specialized desktops for certain classes in the cloud. For a minimal cost and effort, you can deploy persistent desktops in the cloud for classes that require software outside of your normal desktop image. MEEC Member, All
Core BTS: Navigating the Cybersecurity Threat Landscape in K-12 With ransomware attacks becoming more sophisticated year after year, the education sector is increasingly at risk. School districts handle an enormous amount of sensitive personally identifiable information which makes them a prime target for potential attacks. In addition, educational institutions are often challenged by budget limitations, understaffed IT departments, and high-rates of file sharing. This session will cover trending cybersecurity concerns in schools and discuss how your organization can mount a proactive defense. MEEC Vendor, K-12
D2L: Student Engagement in Online Learning: What Works and WhyHow would you characterize today’s college students? Empowered? Confident? Self-motivated? They want all of their classes to be easy, but expect that most will be hard. Most will not speak up unless called upon. Most want, need, require their instructors to tell them exactly what to do. Keeping students involved, motivated, and actively learning is challenging educators across the country, yet good advice on how to accomplish this is not always readily available. This session offers research-based tips, strategies, and techniques to motivate, connect with, and engage online learners. MEEC Vendor, Higher-Ed, Instructional designers
Daly: AV- The Elephant in the Room and on Your Network. Classrooms, Conference Rooms, and Digital Signage. The AV industry’s shift to immersive technologies and integrated experiences will impact your network, facility, and people. Gartner lists the immersive experience among its Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2019. Are you ready for networked AV? MEEC Vendor, All
Data Networks: How Protected is Your School from Cyber Threats? Stop Advanced Threats Before the Damage is Done Education institutions face cyber threats due to the valuable information stored on school networks and the ability for threat actors to use network infrastructure to launch operations against other targets. Academic networks are difficult for administrators to effectively secure, given the network’s size and number of users, as well as the need for internal and external users to access and share information. Dwayne MacKenzie, Data Networks Solutions Architect and 25+ year veteran of the security wars, provides guidance for navigating the nuances of the academic environment to better protect your institution. The session covers: an overview of the current threat landscape, real-world
MEEC THANKS!Thank you to all of the volunteers who made the 2019 MEEC Conference a success. MEEC is always appreciative of our Members’ efforts to assist us with our mission of achieving value together for Maryland education.
MEEC knows your time is valuable. Thank you for spending your day with us!
MEEC Turns 20, 1999 - 2019In 1999, the University System of Maryland (USM) was offered an opportunity to purchase Microsoft products via an Enterprise Agreement at an excellent discount. The USM couldn’t reach the minimum level of commitment by itself. With inspired forethought by Don Langenberg, USM Chancellor (1990-2002), the Maryland Education Enterprise
Consortium (MEEC) was formed to extend this opportunity to any educational entity in Maryland.
Over the last 20 years, MEEC has expanded its portfolio of agreements and broadened its focus from IT hardware and software to also include IT services. MEEC now offers 16 agreements with over 100 vendors. MEEC membership includes over 200 member institutions including: all 24 Maryland K-12 public school systems, numerous private K-12 institutions, all the USM universities and colleges, every Maryland community college and many private and federal higher education institutions. MEEC represents over 1.25 million Maryland students and over 214,000 FTE (faculty and staff).
MEEC largely relies on the volunteer efforts of our member institutions to provide vital resources to support our mission. Together we have saved millions of dollars for education in Maryland.
IP DataSystemsITsavvyJANUS AssociatesLee Hartman & SonsMcAfeeMidPoint Technology Group LLCNational Technology IntegratorsNet-AVNetorianNGEN LLCNicholas P. Pipino Associates IncOmegaCor TechnologiesProSysRCI SystemsSeeds of GeniusSHISierra-Cedar, Inc.SkillsoftSymantecTrinity3 TechnologyUVS InfoTechVantage Point Consulting, Inc.Visual Systems Group Inc. (VSGi)
Applied Technology Services: Hybrid Cloud - How Do I do it, and How Do I Do it Well? IT Professionals and Business Decision Makers have been educated about Hybrid Cloud for what seems like eons, however, the delivery of that message has been fuzzy at best, and without a clear picture as to how to accomplish such a feat. Organizations are constantly evaluating applications to determine their eligibility to convert into the digital transformation world, while still struggling with technical, administrative, or other business hurdles preventing them from realizing and accomplishing business agility and scalability near instantaneously. So, how can an organization very simply reap the benefits of a Hybrid Cloud architecture in today’s multi-cloud world? We will explore use cases and their recommended best practices on how to begin your migration to the Hybrid Cloud. MEEC Vendor, All
Baltimore City Public Schools, Accenture: #thecitythatcodes: Building the Workforce of the Future in Baltimore One Kid at a Time In 2017 there were ~20,000 unfilled jobs requiring computer science in Maryland and yet only 7 of the ~170 schools in Baltimore City offered any kind of computer science. To address this gap, Baltimore City Public Schools, Accenture, and local nonprofit, Code In The Schools, worked side-by-side to begin an effort to make Baltimore #thecitythatcodes. As a result of a yearlong collaboration, 10,000 city students in 50 schools were exposed to computer science through The Hour of Code during Computer Science Education Week. Students were taught by ~360 volunteers representing 65 organizations across Baltimore (including many MEEC members). Through hands-on coding games, students were exposed to computer science which demystified coding. This first step creates access for students to consider computer science jobs and is part of a broader initiative to create a diverse, local pipeline of tech talent to become Baltimore’s workforce of the future. Come hear about what worked, why this is important, and what’s next as the team continues to build the workforce of the future one kid at a time. MEEC Member and Vendor, K-12, Higher-Ed
Baltimore City Public Schools, Lenovo: Finding My Voice Using Virtual Reality Transforming the Student Learning Experience Using Virtual Reality. In this session we will explore how one Baltimore City School, Fort Worthington Elementary/Middle School created an educational environment using Virtual Reality to expand student knowledge, display creativity, and exposed students to new experiences. We will also speak with several teachers from the Fort who worked with 6th grade girls to help them find their voices and create virtual experiences of their own! MEEC Member and Vendor, K-12, Libraries
Carousel Industries: Partnership for Audio and Video Success at Your Campus: Simple, Scalable, Secure, Consistent Join Carousel and Crestron for a discussion about technology solutions for your campus. Learn about how Crestron’s emerging technology in audio, video, unified communications and enterprise management can provide you with flexible solutions to managing your campus’s portfolio of spaces. Learn about the latest Crestron hardware and software innovations including: DigitalMedia™ NVX, AirMedia® 2.0, Crestron XiO Cloud™, 3-Series® Media Presentation Controller, and Crestron Flex solutions. Install. Configure. Learn. MEEC Vendor, K-12, Higher-Ed
Carroll County Public Schools: Carroll County CCCTC Students Cover the MEEC Conference Throughout the Conference, Carroll County Public Schools, Career and Technology Center students will be taking photos and videos which will result in a presentation during the lunch hour. Come support the students as they present on their use of technology and their creative process. The products used are all available via MEEC Agreements. MEEC Member, All
CAS Severn: Cloud Integrated InfrastructureCAS Severn will introduce concepts for merging on-premise compute, storage, data protection and DR with Cloud. Hybrid cloud strategies from both a hardware and software perspective will be examined, including recent local projects conducted by the CAS Severn team and pending projects. Use cases around hybrid cloud for VMs, file storage, data protection / backup, DR and archive will be the focus. Project cost, ROI, TCO, and security perspective will also be discussed. MEEC Vendor, K-12, Higher-Ed
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Creating a Data-Enabled Institutional Culture to Facilitate Student Success
UMUC and Microsoft
Finding My Voice Using Virtual Reality
Baltimore City Public Schools and Lenovo
How Protected is Your School from Cyber Threats? Stop Advanced Threats Before the Damage is Done
Data Networks
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#LMSREVIEW – LMS Reviews are Trending
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Using Data to Drive Decisions by Leveraging Tools You Already Own
Community College of Baltimore County and Microsoft
Too Many Emails?! Microsoft Teams & OneNote Can Help
Mount de Sales Academy
AV- The Elephant In The Room and on Your Network
Daly
Implementing a VDI Infrastructure
Wor-Wic Community College
Navigating the Cybersecurity Threat Landscape in K-12
CoreBTS
CCCTC Student Project at the MEEC Conference
Carroll County Public Schools
Connect, Organize and Share with O365
Chesapeake College
Partnership for Audio and Video Success at Your Campus: Simple, Scalable, Secure, Consistent
Carousel Industries
Optimize your Defenses: Enhancing Cybersecurity Response with Limited Resources
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Coppin State University
#thecitythatcodes: Building the Workforce of the Future in Baltimore One Kid at a Time
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Overview of the 2019 MEEC AV Agreement & Everything MEEC has to Offer
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Managing Data in Motion: Keys to Success
Dell Technologies andUMBC, University of MD, College Park
Student Engagement in Online Learning: What Works and Why
D2L
How to Create a Modern Ransomware Strategy
SLAIT Consulting
Avoid Permanent Local Admin Rights on Desktops and Laptops
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Hybrid Cloud - How Do I Do It, and How Do I Do It Well?
Applied Technology Services
Loyola Blakefield’s 1 to 1 Journey with Microsoft Surface & Office 365
Loyola Blakefield and HCGIMaking Google Classroom Work for Parents Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School Fantastic Flows & How to Make Them Goucher College Become a Collaboration Hero using Microsoft Teams MEEC
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