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The Dean's Council at your institution has asked your committee to develop a Powerpoint presentation on "Hot Topics" in technology. Most of the Council members feel out of touch with new technological trends and resources. What is new? What should they know about? Some have difficulty accessing and replying to email.

The presentation is to identify five "Hot Topics." The Council has assigned two for you to include-- 'blogs' and 'institutional spam' (defined as the policy under which mass communication from the institution to students or groups of students is permitted or not permitted, and what is the proposed approval process for submitting requests). Therefore, you are to examine these two topics and three of your choosing.

For each of the five topics you are to:
1. explain why your committee chose this topic (for the two assigned topics explain why they are important).
2. describe the topic in a complete, yet succinct manner.
3. outline the benefits of the campus embracing this topic.
4. discuss the problem/issues surrounding this topic.

Judges will be utilizing the following criteria when evaluating presentations.
1. practicality of approach
2. innovation of approach
3.use of literature both within and outside student affairs
4. organization of presentation
5. rationalization for chosen responses

POINTS TO REMEMBER
1. Your group should utilize relevant student affairs literature, where appropriate, for their presentation.
2. Utilization of outside sources, URLs, articles, etc. are encouraged, but cannot include input from individuals outside the team.
3. Submissions should be well-thought out and organized.
4. Submissions must be a self-contained PowerPoint file. Please submit only one file per entry. All material to be considered by the judges must be contained in that file.
5. Max file size is 1.5MB

You must include the name of your School and your Team Leader in the initial frame/slide of your presentation. We encourage you to display the names of all team members, but the names of your school and team leader are mandatory. We often receive more than one submission per school so this is important because your presentation may be separated from any email you send. We recommend using a naming format like UniversityofLearning-smith.ppt OR KnowledgeCollegeatHomeville-jones.ppt Do not just call it "submission.ppt" or "studentaffairs.swf"