APRIL/MAY 2006 FACULTY IT LIAISONS NEWSLETTER
WELCOME to the APRIL/MAY 2006 FACULTY IT LIAISONS NEWSLETTER
Upcoming Events and Announcements
- 1) Podcasting Comes to Rutgers
- 2) Real Time Collaboration Tools Extravaganza or COLLABORANZA !!
- 3) K-20 Virtual Forums
- 4) Presentations Available Online
- 5) Highlights of Internet2 Spring Meeting Presentations Online
- Feedback or General Q&A to OIRT and Partners
- UPCOMING EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
(Please share this newsletter with faculty in your department. For a complete list of upcoming IT events visit http://oirt.rutgers.edu)
1) Podcasting Comes to Rutgers
On May 23, representatives from Apple will be on campus to discuss the
latest in educational podcasting. Rutgers is negotiating an agreement with
Apple to become an iTunesU school, which will enable faculty to put
podcasts in a secure server for access by only a specific class. For more
information, visit http://podcasts.rutgers.edu or send email to
ru_podcasts@rutgers.edu.
2) Real Time Collaboration Tools Extravaganza or COLLABORANZA !!
If your department is interested in collaboration tools make sure your
department gets involved in this event running from May 8-12 10:00am -
5:00pm EDT (GMT-4). Internet2 Commons (http://commons.internet2.edu/) is
hosting this event to showcase many of these products, and make them
available to you for FREE. These tools include audio, video, whiteboard,
chat, document sharing, etc. at varying costs afterwards. EVO (update to
VRVS and free for academic and research use), inSORS (value added version
of Access Grid), Marratech (free thru NJEDge.net), Microsoft Conference XP
(currently open source), and RADVision's Click to Meet (free thru
NJEDge.net) will be freely accessible during the Collaboranza. On these
days, all of these vendors will make multiple formal presentations about
their products, and they will provide expert help desk services to answer
your questions. For more info, visit the Internet2 Commons
http://commons.internet2.edu/ web site.
3) K-20 Virtual Forums Sponsored by MAGPI (Regional Networking Group)
Virtual forums and User Group meetings for Arts and Humanities (on August
3 & December 7), Healthcare and Medicine (on May 25 & September 7), Social
Sciences (on June 1 & October 5), and Math & Physical Sciences (on July 6
& November 9) aim to bridge Higher Education, K12, and Public, Cultural, &
Non-Profit entities around issues and opportunities specific to their
disciplines. Refer to http://www.magpi.net/k20network.html for more
information. Contact OIRT@rutgers to arrange video conferencing sites if
you do not have one available.
4) Presentations Available Online
The Cyberinfrastructure Symposium "Information Technology for Research:
The Impact of National Directions in Cyberinfrastructure" was held on April 4th. All presentations are available online at http://internet2.rutgers.edu/agenda.html. For more information on the topics covered, please visit: http://internet2.rutgers.edu and http://oirt.rutgers.edu/
5) Highlights of Internet2 Spring Meeting Presentations Online
The Spring 2006 Internet2 Member Meeting was held April 24-26 in
Arlington, VA. Numerous talks were held on cyberinfrastructure, identity
management, video and much, much more. Go to
http://events.internet2.edu/2006/spring-mm/agenda.cfm?event=242 to review
the program including links to speakers' presentations (ppts and video).
FEEDBACK OR GENERAL Q&A TO OIRT AND PARTNERS
We are very interested in gaining your feedback on any technology
issue. Feel free to respond to oirt@rutgers.edu or call us at
732-445-1438. Note that questions pertaining more directly to a campus,
departmental, or partner IT organization will be coordinated with that
unit. An archive of these newsletters can be found at
http://oirt.rutgers.edu/cmn/fl-archives.html