Those who have AOL at home can't easily use it to get to their campus mail without setting it all to forward. Not aware of any PKI or webmail capabilities in the near future. No update on the issue of student access to video editing equipment. We should find out who sets policy on use of existing equipment. Also if we can identify the appropriate equipment, perhaps it could be acquired for student use in the library media center.
Video seems to be a new hot thing.
The campus is investigating pulling local cable to student housing, and upgrading cat3 cable to cat5 at the same time. A recent forecast suggests that within a year or so most student pc's will come equipped with video cameras. It will be a challenge to configure the network or set policy to avoid shutting down essential functions of the university. Issues related to possible hiring of instructional technology specialists for the humanities lab and science hall, plus plans for the library, plus training issues, point to a need to focus attention on developing an organizational structure that will facilitate or coordinate these processes. We should hold this as a startup topic for next year's committee to take up.