Here is a sneak peak of the ideas that will be implemented in TechKnowFile University 2016. Thank you to all who submitted an idea. Through collaboration, the conference will evolve to reflect the diverse needs and interests of UofT’s IT community.
#TKF16 IDEAS ROUNDUP
Portfolio Management and Agile Scrum
Master Excel in 30 Minutes, focus on shortcuts, pivot tables, common formulas
Archiving Email and Saving Space, setting up .pst archive; mailbox management
So you want a website – now what? Who to contact for UofT website creation; how to prepare before approaching IT
Poster sessions for topics such as technology, higher education technology pedagogy, or demos; posters to be setup amidst networking sessions
Business Meets Technology; strategies for success when a business-process owner embarks on a technology implementation. How do the two sides work?
Open-sourcing large software projects; instead of your abandoning software, open-source it *NEW*
GitHub: how to move to/set up an organization on GitHub? And more *NEW*
MadLab – 3D Printing
Drones
How email won’t rule your life/drawbacks of email as forum
Password protected community
Best practices for community and partners: how to talk and share IT?
Breakdowns & breakthroughs (panel or tutorial on a variety of topics)
Social media evolving
Mindfulness as efficiency (Faculty of Social Work provost consult)
Business meets tech for students; how to interact alternatively with technology in class;
Open session forum with faculty – brainstorm on class tech functionality;
With a follow up session on flip learning, blended learning (Laurie Harrison consult)
MOOCs (Jim Slotta and Vivek Goel consult)
Data Center/information security
Information security council: what’s happening, what to expect, how can policy help
Big data: quantifying own productivity relating to the individual
Directors answer community questions
Disaster Recovery Plan (presentation and workshop: test your plan)
Cloud services: “fears and pet peeves” / risks and understanding
Workshop on ITS policy (with Bob Cook)
Encryption solutions (short demo)
What to do when we have a breach? (short demos)
101 Microsoft 365
Administrative currency at UofT (e.g. USource, UT Stationary, Writing for the Web)
Voiceover IP Project
Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) [contest/workshops]