OCTOBER 2006 FACULTY IT LIAISONS NEWSLETTER
WELCOME to the OCTOBER 2006 FACULTY IT LIAISONS NEWSLETTER
Upcoming Events and Announcements
- 1) University Wide Site Licensed Software Update
- 2) IT Faculty Liaisons Meeting (11/29)
- 3) WebCT decomissioned by September 2007, Sakai an Alternative
- 4) Video Conferencing in Review
- 5) IT Training Opportunities
- 6) Internet2 Fall Member Meeting (12/4-12/7)
- 7) Math and Physical Sciences Virtual Forum (11/9)
- 8) High Performance Computing Event at UMDNJ-Newark (11/2)
- 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) University Wide Site Licensed Software Update
RefWorks pilot usage is available now by going to the
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/refworks/refworks.shtml web
site. Faculty interested in early training opportunities, please let
us know. Otherwise full support and more announcements will be in
place in early 2007.
Census Seat access has been renewed.
If Mathematica were available for free to students, what classes in
your department would incorporate it in instruction? Let us
(oirt@rutgers.edu) and your deans know. OIRT has begun contacting
designated software contacts for each college/school and independent
research centers.
Content Analysis review and selection about to begin. If your
department wants to help review and select which Content Analysis
package to site license, please let us (oirt@rutgers.edu) know who
to contact. OIRT will convene a group of faculty and researchers to
select either Atlas or Nvivo to try to site license.
Visit the software portal at http://software.rutgers.edu/ for more
information on existing site licenses.
2) IT Faculty Liaisons Meeting (11/29)
Come and join an open dialogue regarding instructional and research
technologies with OIRT. IT Faculty Liaisons are invited to a lunch
meeting on Wednesday, November 29th from 11:45am to 1:15pm in
College Hall B in the Livingston Campus Center. Mark your calendars
and please register at:
https://oirt.rutgers.edu/registration/rutgers/register.php?id=61129.
3) WebCT decomissioned by September 2007, Sakai an Alternative
As of September, 2007, we will be decommissioning the WebCT Course
Management system. It will be replaced by a new system, Sakai. WebCT
and Sakai are "course management systems." These systems have a
coordinated set of software to help faculty teach courses. They
permit faculty to make files available for students, and have tools
such as a bulletin board, chat room, assignment management and
online testing. Staff will provide assistance in moving data from
WebCT to Sakai. We expect automated tools to be available that can
translate most content. The content of all current WebCT courses
will be available throughout 2007/8, to help in moving the course.
However WebCT will not be available for students beyond the summer
of 2007. Faculty leaving WebCT may also wish to use eCompanion.
Interested faculty should visit http://ecompanion.rutgers.edu for
more information. For more information about Sakai at Rutgers, see
http://sakai.rutgers.edu.
4) Video Conferencing in Review
OIRT will be providing a review of available video conferencing
services and capabilities available to the Rutgers Community. This
includes inexpensive desktop video conferencing and better quality
room size video conferencing. It will show attendees how to use
facilities that allows them to include phone conferencing, arrange
for live streaming, improve the quality of the presentation,
schedule large meetings, compare commonly used video conferencing to
High Definition, and more. If your department has specific video
conferencing training needs, please let us know.
5) IT Training Opportunities for your Graduate Students and Staff
OIRT has consolidated all of the IT Training programs available at
Rutgers onto a single location. Please visit
http://oirt.rutgers.edu/cmn/training.html to review all of the
opportunities available to you and your staff.
6) Internet2 Fall Member Meeting Registration is Open
The Internet2 community meets December 4-7 in Chicago, Illinois with
sessions highlighting leading-edge uses of advanced networking in
higher education research, instruction and collaboration. Please
visit http://events.internet2.edu/2006/fall-mm for more information
on the meeting and to register.
7) Math and Physical Sciences Virtual Forum (11/9)
MAGPI, our regional coordinator for Internet2 activities, will host
a videoconferenced forum on Math and Physical Science topics on
November 9th from 9:30-11:30AM. OIRT will provide a location to
participate in the forum from its offices in ASB Annex I. Please
visit http://www.magpi.net/mathandscience.html for more information
and past forum agendas. Register at
https://oirt.rutgers.edu/registration/rutgers/register.php?id=611091
8) High Performance Computing Event at UMDNJ-Newark (11/2)
UMDNJ and NJEDge.Net, the New Jersey Higher Education Network are
hosting a half day educational event on November 2 focusing on high
performance computing hardware/software/network organization and
implementation. More information, including registration, is
available at http://www.njedge.net/activities.
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