Tag: xw13

Andy Parker, St Cuthbert’s College, AucklandPart of XW13

This session will look at the technical aspects of deploying iOS devices using both Apple Configurator and JAMF’s Casper suite, and the use-cases of differing deployment types for individuals and labs with references to Apple’s three suggested models of app ownership.

I’ll share lessons we’ve learnt from the different methods we have used to provision iPads for students and staff.

The sessions will be relevant to faculty looking to provide iPads to users as well as technical staff responsible for making an iPad rollout work as painlessly as possible.

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Andy is the Director of Information & Learning Technologies at St Cuthbert’s College, Auckland. The role has responsibilities for all aspects of the Colleges’s IT infrastructure, use of IT for the management of the College’s operations (both business and education) and integration of IT into classroom programmes. The College has operated a successful 1:1 notebook program since 2000.

Prior to working at St Cuthbert’s Andy was the Group IT Manager for the Academic Colleges Group responsible for delivery of IT services across the 10 members schools of the group through New Zealand, Vietnam and Indonesia.

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Arek Dreyer, Dreyer Network ConsultantsPart of XW13

This hands on session will cover Apple’s Configurator application for managing a fleet of iOS devices.

You will need to bring your own Macintosh laptop running MacOS X 10.8.x, and an iOS device running iOS 6 to participate in this lab.

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Arek Dreyer is a Chicago, USA based author, courseware developer and computer consultant, expert in Mac OS X and directory services in Mac OS X Server. He is an Apple Certified Trainer and Apple Certified System Administrator and has been delivering system administration training for Apple Worldwide Training and Certification since 2002. He maintains expertise in Microsoft Windows and UNIX based environments, particularly Sun Solaris, Mac OS X has become his preferred platform, and he enjoys the challenge of heterogeneous networks like integration with Active Directory.

He has been a presenter at the Macworld Expo conference on many occasions and presented at X World in the past.

He is is the author of many books including; Apple Pro Training Series: OS X Lion Support Essentials; Apple Pro Training Series: OS X Lion Server Essentials and his new book on Managing iOS Devices with OS X Lion Server.

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Jayant Varma, OZ AppsPart of XW13

Apps are everywhere, still there are ideas that are worthy of being made into an app. The biggest issue faced by anyone is getting the idea converted into an app for various reasons. These can hinge around various resource constraints like knowledge or finances. In this session you can learn how to overcome this and be on your way in converting your ideas into an app.

The takeaway from this workshop is Lua which can be run on Windows, Macintosh and Unix systems, and be very useful to write scripts that look like English, are powerful, and have a small footprint.

You will need to bring your own Macintosh laptop to participate in this lab, preferably running MacOS X 10.8.x.

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Jayant is the author of the book “Learn Lua for iOS Game Development” from Apress.  He was formerly a lecturer at James Cook University, and presented at X World 2010 and X World 2011, and has run workshops for the AUC on Corona. He currently runs a consulting service known as OZ Apps, and develop apps for iOS and Android using a variety of frameworks and languages.

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Matthew Tilney, Australian National UniversityPart of XW13

With a change in IT to consumer BYO devices, there are still new and emerging areas for system administrators that can provide positive use of resources and add value in universities. This workshop is a hands-on session on creating the follow niche environments:

• public movie display (using an iMac)
• photo display feed from PhotoBooth
• initial design for computer-based exams (replacing the exam paper pad with Word)

The focus is upon quick, flexible, re-usable and modular design to rapidly develop the above and similar environments.  All attendees are welcome, only broad background in Macintosh usage is required.

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Matthew is a Macintosh system administrator in the Managed Operating Environments team for the Division of Information at ANU.  His primary responsibility includes installing, updating and maintaining the student Information Commons (IC) Macintosh fleet of over 500 machines along with Adam Reed.

His other tasks include the management of staff Macintosh based machines (and other Apple devices), setup of specific learning facilities, and day-to-day support of Apple and Microsoft and other IT based products as required.

Recently he has taken ‘personal development time’ to investigate the idea of creating ‘fun’ minimal user environments using spare iMacs for use by both staff and students such as photo-booth and image displays.

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Adam Reed, Australian National UniversityPart of XW13

This hands on session will cover numerous aspects of building and maintaining a SOE/MOE, including:

• understanding OS X,
• software packaging,
• basic scripting, and
• the command line

You will see and use various tools that make managing a SOE easier, and you will gain some practical ideas that you can utilise in your environment. This is a repeat of a session offered at X World 2012.

You will need to bring your own Macintosh laptop to participate in this lab, preferably running MacOS X 10.8.x.

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Adam is the team leader of the Managed Operating Environments team from Information Technology Services at ANU. His team builds MOEs for student and staff machines on both OS X and Windows.

Within the team, Adam is the senior Macintosh admin, and has extensive experience in the design, construction, and management of Macintosh MOE’s. Recently his team has implemented a new Munki managed environment that is used by different service provider groups from across the campus in a shared services style manner.

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Alistair Campbell, Edith Cowan UniversityPart of XW13

The workshop will be of interest to anybody interested in rapid development and/or prototype development of useful apps, with no coding, for deployment on iPhones, iPods, iPads and Macs. Attendees will learn how to develop one app that can easily recognise the device and display appropriate windows.

The workshop will include:

• a short introduction to the new features in Filemaker GO and Filemaker,
• the conversion of existing spreadsheets into apps (a number of samples will be given),
• the development of a number of windows to display this information and how different types of data can be entered using standard database features,
• issues that need to be considered when developing app, fonts, layout, navigation etc.,
• exploration of the ability to capture signatures, audio and video along with pictures within the app with no coding required,
• exploration of the ability to capture barcodes using a free bar code reader and sample FileMakerGO database, and
• deployment issues, e.g. local vs server based

Attendees will leave with a number of personalised apps for their desired device(s).

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Half of Alistair’s current role is as an ICT pedagogical officer, supporting staff within the School of Education at Edith Cowan University to implement ICT into their curriculum. The other half is involves research into the practical application of mobile apps for deployment on iOS devices in the assessment of authentic student work. He is currently working on projects involving university, primary and secondary education.

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William McGrath, University of AucklandPart of XW13

In an era of tightening budgets, considerable pressure is put on tertiary education providers to consider delivering classes to larger audiences. Large Class Teaching is the term often coined where classes are larger than 60.

The Faculty of Education at the University of Auckland has been working on ways to promote active learning in these classes, facilitated by an appropriate mix of technology and teaching methods.

This presentation will discuss the tools provided to academic staff to make their sessions interactive and engaging, and the ways they can leverage the technology to get a better handle on what progress their students are making.

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William is a Macintosh systems specialist at the University of Auckland. His work involves the planning and implementation of Apple technology for use in teaching, learning and research. He oversees the deployment and management of over 600 Macintosh computers across campus and advises the university on best practice when it comes to managing Apple technology.

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David Colville, XciteLogicPart of XW13

AirPlay and AirPrint are amazing technologies, but they rely on Bonjour and multicast DNS which can be tricky to get working on modern networks.

In this session David will go through some configurations for deploying Airprint on restricted networks, as well as configuring Windows servers to publish AirPrint printing or AirPlay devices, and look at third-party vendor solutions that can help manage Multicast DNS.

He wil also look at some great applications that you can use once you have AirPlay up and running.

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David Colville is Technical Account Manager at XciteLogic. He is the lead engineering role in NSW, working predominantly in Corporate and Educational environments and integrating Apple technologies.

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Adam Reed, Australian National UniversityPart of XW13

This talk is on Using Git with, and automating Munki. The presentation focuses on two aspects of advancing your use of Munki. The first is demonstrating how you can use the git distributed version control system in conjunction with Munki (and to also assist general sys admin tasks), and the second will be a demonstration of Auto Munki Importer and how you can use it to automatically package applications for your users.

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Adam is the team leader of the Managed Operating Environments team from Information Technology Services at ANU. His team builds MOEs for student and staff machines on both OS X and Windows.

Within the team, Adam is the senior Macintosh admin, and has extensive experience in the design, construction, and management of Macintosh MOE’s. Recently his team has implemented a new Munki managed environment that is used by different service provider groups from across the campus in a shared services style manner.

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