December, 2005

The EduTech Report - December 2005 - Full Issue
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So You’re New to This
By Thomas Warger
Keen to get started and make a good impression, the new IT manager looks around to get her bearings. The position has been open for a while; work has been stacked up in anticipation of her arrival; everyone wants her time and attention. It can be so daunting.

Quotes of the month

Newsbriefs
LAMS Community Launched, Finding Better Ways to Protect Information

The Challenge: Reinvent IT
By Theresa Rowe
The IT organization is shifting, a trend begun with the article “IT Doesn’t Matter” (Harvard Business Review, May 2003). Ongoing reports of students avoiding the traditional IT career have followed. Most recently, CIO Magazine shared a Gartner review suggesting that one in 10 IT departments will be dead by 2011.

EduTech Responds
Password policy, promoting development of IT-mediated learning materials, dealing with tightening audio-video budgets