eBVyou: Creating the Nations First Wireless Community

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eBVyou Creating the Nations First Wireless
Community

• An overview for parents of BVU students

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What BVU did

• We created what we like to call
• the nations first wireless community
• Campus-wide wireless network
• ALL full-time students and faculty equipped with
  Gateway Solo portable computers and Avaya
  wireless network cards

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Why eBVyou?

• Already today, belonging to a digital culture
  binds people more strongly than the territorial
  adhesives of geography - if all parties are truly
  digital. Like air and drinking water, being
  digital will be noticed only by its absence, not
  its presence
• But the really surprising changes will be
  elsewhere, in our lifestyle and how we
  collectively manage ourselves on this planet
• --Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Media Lab

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Why eBVyou?

• There are three kinds of death in this world.
  There's heart death, there's brain death, and
  there's being off the network.
• -- Guy Almes
• Chief Engineer, Internet 2

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Why BVU first?

• Institutional Mission
• The university prepares students for leadership
  and service in an information-driven, global
  society.
• Careers
• Student competitiveness

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eBVyou goals

• ACCESS and SUSTAINABLE SUPPORT for EVERYONE
• TECHNOLOGY as ENABLER for DISCOVERY
• Transform the TOTAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
  Everywhere, ALL of the Time
• Enhance Community, Collaboration, and Engagement.
• Technology as LEVER for CHANGE.

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Our Story
The Little Engine That Could (Go Wireless)
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Why Wireless?

• Collaborative culture
• Campus visits gt wired classroom issues
• Technology scanning timing
• Preparing students for the future

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eBVyou Results

• Implementing our wireless mobile computing
  environment has increased
• access
• support
• collaboration
• productivity

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Teaching and Learningin the Wireless Environment

• DISCOVERY rules over talk
• ENHANCES face-to-face contact
• EMPOWERS the learner
• Learning is no longer limited by space and time

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Teaching and Learningin the Wireless Environment

• Increased capacity for immediate feedback
• Emphasis on learning over content
• Computers as construction devices

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Examples Classroom

• Wireless Reporting
• Blackboard Course Assessment as Discussion
  Builders
• Cookies Project
• Instant Feedback Java Applet

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Java Classroom Feedback Tool
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Examples Non-Classroom

• Virtual Office Hours
• Student Union Office Hours
• Art History Slides Quizzes
• Wireless Writing - Peer Editing

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Student Responsibility

• Student Responsibility Agreement
• Non-warranty examples
• Optional homeowners coverage
• Preventing expensive repairs

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Technical Support

• 2FIX for Technical Support
• 712-749-2349
• 2fix_at_bvu.edu
• http//2fix.bvu.edu/
• Loaner Pool

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Electronic Services

• Registration
• Library Resources
• Connected Learning
• www.bvu.edu

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Gateway Purchase Option

• For you and your family, not for your incoming
  student.
• Alexa Lynch, Gateway
• 1-877-485-1462, x 55075
• http//esource.gateway.com/eBVyou

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Thank you!

• Ken Clipperton
• Managing Director of University Information
  Services
• ken_at_bvu.edu
• 712-749-2FIX (2349)