Biography
Martin King is Head of IT services at Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College (EHWLC). Martin is especially interested in the intersection of technology and culture and how this is played out within education. After reading psychology and anthropology he went on to study computing and education. He has 30 years experience of working with IT in further education from teaching with mainframe terminals in the early 1980s through managing PC/LAN/ client-server networks in the 1990s to heading up IT services in one of the UK's largest further education colleges since 2001 in what can be described as the web era. Martin is a passionate advocate for personal learning both with and without technology and institutions. He is working on projects that promote mutual co-created learning, social learning, web working and personal technologies.
Abstract
The changing role of the network manager
The alternate titles I thought about for this presentation were "Networking for Rapunzel", "It's networking Jim but not as we know it" and "the network is our computer". The core theme in all of this is about change - how networks are changing, how our use and expectations of networks are changing and as a consequence how the roles of network and IT managers should also be changing. The crux of the presentation is about how the intersection of new cultural and technology factors is radically changing what we think of as networking.
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