CIO Blog by Pablo Molina

Category: Kudos and recognitions

Feb 27 2009

Innovative Classroom Technology Use

Posted by Pablo Molina at 2:24 PM - Categories: Kudos and recognitions

Did the recent decision by Facebook to seek users input on policies originate in a Georgetown University Law Center classroom? Adjunct faculty member and Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Marc Rotenberg put the videoconferencing technologies in classroom Hotung 1000 to good use last Tuesday. On February 24, 2009, Marc set up a discussion between Facebook's privacy counsel and Anne Kathrine Yojana Petteroe, an organizer of a Facebook protest organizer. Ann Katherine was on a Skype call from Norway, and was able to interact with the students because of all the microphones in the room. Marc was quoted in USA Today: "We actually played out in my class with the head of Facebook and with the head of the organizer of the protest, how to make changes to the terms of service. I actually saw things today that we had talked about in class. One of the ideas that came up on Tuesday...(was) giving people a chance to vote. And that was in the new statement of principles." Below is the link to the full article.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2009-02-26-facebook_N.htm If you would like to use videoconferencing technology at the Law Center, to invite remote speakers or to participate in away meetings without leaving a carbon footprint or a hole in your budget, please contact the audiovisual department at audiovis@law.georgetown.edu or 202-6629284.

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Jul 9 2007

Top 40 Under 40 IT Innovators

Posted by Pablo Molina at 3:10 PM - Categories: Kudos and recognitions

The July 9, 2007 issue of ComputerWorld quotes some Georgetown University Law Center team members and covers some of our latest initiatives. Thanks to the hard work of my team members, I was recognized as one of the Top 40 Under 40 IT Innovators. There is even a nice picture of me, taken by my dear friend Holly Eaton.

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Jun 19 2007

Community Service

Posted by Pablo Molina at 11:57 AM - Categories: Kudos and recognitions

On June 15 and 16 of 2007, I joined several talented Hispanic technology executives from across the nation in New York City for the founding summit of an interesting non-profit organization devoted to promoting the role of Hispanics in technology leadership. http://www.hitecglobal.org/ If you are interested in this project or know of anybody who may be, please do not hesitate to contact me.

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Jun 11 2007

About Information Security

Posted by Pablo Molina at 10:03 AM - Categories: Kudos and recognitions

I was recently honored with a couple of information security award nominations: 2007 Information Security Executive of the Year National Award Nominee and 2007 Information Security Executive of the Year Mid-Atlantic Award Nominee. The credit for these nominations belongs to all of my team members and the institutional commitment to educate community members, and the public at large, about information security issues. Lately, we have been encouraging everybody to use encrypted USB keys, so that the information contain in them is not exposed in case of theft or loss, and privacy screen filters for laptop computers, to reduce both distractions while in class and unwelcomed glances. I have recently learned that our Information Security Officer, Dimo Michailov, runs a fascinating web site at http://www.cybercrimelaw.org. Check it out!

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Jun 7 2006

Faculty Technology Retreat

Posted by Pablo Molina at 10:12 PM - Categories: Kudos and recognitions

The second Law Center faculty technology retreat led by Dean Carol O’Neil was a great success. Our gratitude goes to the Dean’s Office for sponsoring it, promoting it and actively participating in it. I want to publicly thank professors Diana Donahoe, Vicki Jackson, Rebecca Tushnet, and Kathryn Zeiler, and librarians Jennifer Locke Davitt and Janice Anderson for sharing creative technology ideas with faculty and senior administrators. Two IST team members, Christopher Ballantyne and Sabrina Mapp, spoke eloquently at the retreat. We covered classroom technology, web conferencing, videoconferencing, courseware systems, Internet access control in classrooms, library services, faculty web pages, and multimedia web repositories. Most importantly, we introduced the new strategic plan for technology to the faculty and received great feedback from them on many technology issues and projects.

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Mar 9 2005

Bravo!

Posted by Pablo Molina at 1:55 PM - Categories: Kudos and recognitions

Many Information Systems and Technology members have been recognized recently by Georgetown University Law Center community members for their outstanding contributions to several projects. Network Engineer, Bill Reeves was commended on his support of videoconferencing sessions. AV Engineer, Larry Fischer's creation of the History of the Black Law Student Association video has received public praise in several forums. Advanced Web Developer, Dimo Michailov's establishment of a book authoring repository for faculty members seems to be a pioneering effort in the legal publishing industry. Finally, student satisfaction with technology has grown this year, as evidenced by the results of our annual student survey.

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Feb 23 2005

Data Center Award

Posted by Pablo Molina at 9:38 AM - Categories: Kudos and recognitions

At the end of 2004, APC bestowed its Data Center InfraXstructure Award on the Georgetown University Law Data Center. IST team members and contract partners did an outstanding job on this project. It involved installing a state-of-the-art Liebert climate control unit and uninterrupted power supply unit, rebuilding the electrical and data cables with a wire management system, assembling equipment closets, and deploying new servers.

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