This year it was a BYOD Poster Session – Bring Your Own Desserts. Going virtual did not stop us from mingling over posters and having mini-presentations, but we did miss the great assortment of desserts we usually have!
Our virtual poster session allowed attendees to visit breakout rooms on their own and meet with the various presenters.
This year we have two exhibitors – Okta (View Website) and Software2 (View Website) available to chat with to learn more about their products.
Communication Awards winners were also available to talk about their winning entries. It was great to learn about the Dragons and Dungeons Security Awareness campaign from University of Illinois Chicago, which won the General Service Campaign materials. You can check out their award winning campaign here https://it.uic.edu/security/awareness/national-cyber-security-awareness-month-ncasm/. Also available for discussion were winning team members from Texas A&M who won for both Student Created Materials – their 2020 Computer Lab Signage Campaign and for best Computing Newsletter for their 2019 annual report which can be viewed at https://it.tamu.edu/annualreport-2019/index.php.
Finally, we have our poster presentations. Two of these presentations focused on the rapid deployment of web conferencing services during the pandemic response. With little to no budget, each was able to ramp up services in a short time to allow continued activities for remote learning.
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) was one such presentation:
Design and Implementation of the Cisco Webex System based on self-service sign-up using G Suite for rapid deployment (View Poster)
The other was from Kyoto Institute of Technology:
Preparation for Remote Activities in the University using Cisco WebEx Education Offer (View Poster)
Kyoto Institute of Technology also offered a poster presentation about a collaborate project with their high school to implement shared learning experiences over high speed internet.
Practice report of high school and university cooperation class using high-speed network (View Poster)
Another presentation was also by Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) and reported on the success of two training programs. Students were found to be more successful after these trainings.
Introduction of the basic human resource development program for Freshman and the practical professional development program for current students at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (View Poster)