Office of Instructional and Research Technology: FACULTY IT LIAISONS NEWSLETTER

JUNE 2005 FACULTY IT LIAISONS NEWSLETTER

Welcome to the OIRT Faculty Liaisons Group! We are very pleased to already have the participation of almost half of the academic and/or research departments and units. This group was established to ensure that there is a mechanism for two-way communication of instructional and/or research technology needs and opportunities throughout the university.

We expect to email the group on a monthly basis a digest containing the following information:

Upcoming IRT events and announcements - These will be presented in digest-form with amplifying links to web-based information routed through the OIRT website (http://oirt.rutgers.edu).
Question of the Month (QOM) - QOMs will pertain to a particular topic about which we are hoping to gain faculty input (e.g., training workshops). Data gathered from the QOMs will be presented in the following month's digest.
Faculty Liaison Forum - Each month we will provide answers to several questions of general interest posed by you. Please feel free to submit questions to us at any time.

OIRT in coordination with campus, departmental, and partner (listed at http://oirt.rutgers.edu and herein referred to as OIRT&P) IT organizations are committed to helping your department or unit succeed in your instructional and research technology endeavors. The Faculty Liaison Group will provide you with a direct relationship to OIRT&P. We are glad to be working with you!

Upcoming Events and Announcements

NJEdge.Net, the State's Higher Education network, will be holding its third annual Technology in Education conference "Building Community through the Application of Technology" November 2-4, 2005 in the Harrison Conference Center, Plainsboro, New Jersey. A Call for Proposals, which are due by June 30th, can be found at http://www.njedge.net/conference2005/register-eposter-proposal.html.

Training for the Sakai pilot begins on July 25th. If you are not participating in the pilot, but want to set up your own collaborative Sakai work space visit http://sakai.rutgers.edu. More to follow in future announcements.

The OIRT website is getting a facelift. Visit http://oirt.rutgers.edu early in July -- and see what's new.

Question of the Month

What are your department's top 5 instructional and/or research technology priorities and concerns? Please email this to oirt@rutgers.edu.

Faculty Liaison Forum

As we regularly receive questions regarding video support, we focused on "Video Services available to the Rutgers Community" at the June 14th Technology Meeting. Together with many departments, we presented this Video Services Technology Meeting. This meeting was also a demonstration of some of these services as it was video conferenced between the 3 campuses, streamed live, and will soon be archived at http://oirt.rutgers.edu/tech050614.html. If you wish your department to be included in future video discussions, please submit the email address of your video support/contact person, and we can make sure that they are included in the video_admin listserv.

Feedback or General Q&A

Please feel free to contact us with questions regarding any IT-related topic. In order to address your needs, we must know about them. You can email OIRT at oirt@rutgers.edu. Note that questions pertaining more directly to a campus, departmental, or partner IT organization will be coordinated with that university unit.