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Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Campus Technology 2011 Conference 4 Education Tracks: Choose Your Sessions Today!
INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN AND LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
Breakout Sessions in this track for Campus Technology 2011 focus on the following content: Online Instruction and Pedagogy, Flexible Learning Environments/Learning Commons, Collaboration Technologies, Digital Media for Instruction, Student Communities/Learning Communities, Faculty Development/Faculty Support, Incubator Classrooms, Open Learning/Open Knowledge Systems/Open Standards, eBooks/ Learning Resources, New Assessment Strategies/ePortfolios, Video Literacy/Video Annotation, Projection and Display Technology, Class Capture/Video Capture
T02 Pod Rooms: Faculty Friendly Classroom Technology Tuesday July 26 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Stephanie Glick, Consultant, Learning Technologies, Learning Spacies
T07 Community of Practice in Online Education - Collaborative Curriculum Tuesday July 26 11:15 am - 12:15 pm
Darin Kapanjie, Faculty Director, Educational Technology and Professor, Statistics, Fox School of Business, Temple University
T08 eText is Here Tuesday July 26 11:15 am - 12:15 pm
Rand Spiwak, CEO, eTextConsult, LLC, Ret. EVP/CFO Daytona State College
John Ittelson, Professor Emeritus, CSU Monterey Bay, Director, Communication, Collaboration, and Outreach, California Virtual Campus
T12 Academic Progress Portal: Catching Students Before They Fail Tuesday July 26 3:45 pm - 4:45 pm
Scott Helf, Chief Technology Officer, Western University of Health Sciences
W17 Engaging Faculty: Observations from ACU's Mobile Learning Initiative Wednesday July 27 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Scott Perkins, Director of Research, Abilene Christian University
George Saltsman, Executive Director, Adams Center for Teaching and Learning, Abilene Christian University
W22 Beyond Web 2.0: How Virtual Learning Environments Should Help Learners Wednesday July 27 11:15 am - 12:15 pm
Jeff Borden, Senior Director of Teaching and Learning, Pearson eCollege, Enriched Lecturer, Chaminade University - Hawaii
W27 eAssessment: Using Electronic Portfolios for Curriculum Improvement Wednesday July 27 3:45 pm - 4:45 pm
Frederick Loomis, Assistant Professor, School of Education , Drexel University
Ryan Ciolli, IT Support Specialist, Drexel University: LeBow College of Business
Michael Scheuermann, Associate Vice President, Instructional Technology, Drexel University
W23 Digital Media Assignment Initiative at Northeastern University Wednesday July 27 11:15 am - 12:15 pm
Alicia Russell, Director, Educational Technlology Center, Northeastern University
Seth Merriam, Web Services Manager and Multimedia Designer , Northeastern University
Victoria Wallace, Instructional Designer, Northeastern University
TH32 Building a Culture of Assessment Using Rubrics: A Web 2.0 Approach Thursday July 28 8:30 am - 9:30 am
Ramesh Sabetiashraf, Computer Science Faculty, Santa Ana College
TH37 IT Literacy in the Internet Era Thursday July 28 9:45 am - 10:45 am
DILLARD UNIVERSITY STUDENT ASSESSMENT OF SUMMER SCHOOL 2011 FACULTY
Dr. Keith M. Wismar, Interim Coordinator of Academic Assessment
DUICEF Room 244 ■ Phone: 816-4138 ■ Email: kwismar@dillard.edu
TO: MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY TEACHING SUMMER SCHOOL CLASSES
FROM: Phyllis W. Dawkins, Ph.D.
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
RE: STUDENT ASSESSMENT OF SUMMER SCHOOL FACULTY
DATE: July 5th, 2011
In order to assure that all Summer Session 2011 course offerings are evaluated by students, the Student Assessment of Instruction will be administered July 12th -July 15th, 2011 for each class section offered during the Summer Session 2011. The evaluation will require no more than 15 minutes; therefore, you are requested to meet your classes as usual and to leave the last 15 minutes for the assessment.
To assist in completing this cycle of student assessment of instruction, you are requested to abide by the following procedures:
1. Pick up your envelopes of assessment instruments from your department office beginning Tuesday July 12th (one envelope for each class with class number and instructor’s name). Please have the students fill out the reporting form for each class according to the provided instructions on the survey instrument using a #2 pencil.
2. Inform students, in advance, that the student evaluation of faculty instruction is scheduled for Tuesday July 12th through Friday July 15th, 2011. Please remind all students that they should bring a #2 pencil to class on the date chosen by the instructor.
3. Identify, in advance, a responsible student volunteer who can confidentially administer the survey and can be trusted to deliver the completed surveys to the Office of Academic Affairs.
4. During the week of administering the survey, take the appropriate envelope to your class.
5. Instruct the student volunteer to pass out the instruments to the class members. At the end of the period, the student should collect the completed instruments, place them in the envelope securely, and deliver the envelope to the Office of Academic Affairs (Rosenwald Room 203).
6. After passing the envelope to the student, the faculty member is required to leave the classroom.
7. Make every effort to involve each of your students in the evaluation. (Try to reschedule the assessment for students who are absent at the first administration).
All faculty members are encouraged to report unforeseen problems to Dr. Keith Wismar at kwismar@dillard.edu. Thank you for your assistance in completing the student evaluations!
Dillard University’s Division of Student Success Begins Summer 2011 Intern Program under the Office of Student Affairs
Dillard University’s Division of Student Success has launched its 2011 Summer Internship Program. . The internship program is distinctly developed and especially unique to individuals who desire to work in Higher Education. The initial internship program began last summer in June 2010. Kristen Mruk and Lonnie Booker were the only two (2) participants. This year we are excited to announce that we have six (6) new graduate students from various areas of the country selected to participate in the 2011 Summer Internship Program.
Olumide Adeyemo Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Devin Lee James Baltimore, Maryland
Brandon Hines Baltimore, Maryland
Quinton Stroud Fountain Inn, South Carolina
Jarvis Barnes Ft. Meyers, Florida
Tai Quay Smith Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
The internship participants will be assigned in the various departments within the Division of Student Success such as Student Affairs, Enrollment Management, Student Support Services, Residential Life, and Student Activities. The internship is non-paid.The 2011 Summer Internship Program commences on June 13th and concludes on August 15, 2011. The program is coordinated by Mr. Kyle Turman and Mr. Jerald Bowman in the Office of Student Affairs.
A Message from the AVP of Information Technology and Telecommunications at Dillard University
Colleagues,
I am happy to announce that this weekend with the approval of the senior cabinet, we will be migrating our email services to a more robust and flexible environment in-house. ITT has recently procured and installed the necessary hardware and software to host our email services in-house allowing us to take advantage of all of the features of the latest exchange email services product which includes reduced deployment costs, simplified high availability and disaster recovery, greater mobility and flexible access, safeguards for sensitive information and reduced risk of malware and spam.
What these features translate to for you and allow us to do is first and foremost provide you with the email space you need to accommodate your current needs plus some growth. Currently our outsourcing environment allocates 2gb (gigabytes) of email space per email box per person and we have reached our limit on the amount of space our budgeted dollars will buy. By default, in our in-house environment, each email box will be allotted double the space plus some allocated in our current environment (from 2gb to 5gb). We have also reached the limit on the number of email accounts our budgeted dollars could buy meaning that we cannot accommodate new accounts. And finally, our outsourcing environment by its very nature injected a relatively heavy toll on our network. We anticipate lessening that burden.
As excited as we are about making the move in-house we need your assistance to ensure a smooth transition. The purpose of this communiqué is to inform and to make you aware that in order to accomplish the migration task email services will be interrupted beginning at 7:00 pm on Friday, July 1st through 8:00 am on Tuesday, July 5th. What this means to you is the following:
• For the duration of the interruption, the flow of email to your pc, workstations or devices connected to our current email system will stop. This is because we will have to migrate your existing email from the outsourced server to the in-house repository. We anticipate that this migration will go smoothly, however, since the data is flowing over the network, the speed of the migration will be impacted by the amount of traffic on the network. Minimal network traffic means maximum migration speed, thus our reason for choosing to do the migration on the weekend when networking traffic is minimized.
• No other systems will be affected. Jenzabar, MyDU, website access and other IT functions and resources will be unaffected albeit they may run a little slower than normal.
• For those of you using personal devices to receive Dillard email, you will more than likely see some strangeness associated with Dillard email delivery for the duration of the interruption. With so many devices in use out there I cannot begin to describe what your device will do. Just be aware that it may or may not function properly. Also note that the change will necessitate reconfiguring your device to ensure it works properly with the new environment once the migration is complete.
As usual thank you very much for your time, patience and understanding as we strive to deliver a quality product that we believe you truly deserve. In the event you have any questions, concerns or feedback please to not hesitate to call or email me directly and I will address your query as soon as possible. A second email will follow this one detailing what needs to be done on your pc, workstations and devices to ensure a seamless transition to the new service.
Thanks sincerely,
James P. Hobbs III
AVP Information Technology and Telecommunications
Dillard University
2601 Gentilly Boulevard
New Orleans, LA. 70122
jhobbs@dillard.edu
(504) 816-4716 phone
(504) 816-4889 fax
Dillard University Summer 2011: Blackboard Faculty Course Assignments and Students Enrollment.
Please be reminded that all course teaching adjustment has to be initiated by the Coordinator of the your program or the Chair of the Department, and then forwarded to the Registrar for MyDu and Blackboard updates. I recommend that whosoever handles the adjustment copy me as the same information is been sent to the Registrar.
For students enrollment, please do not send students to my office. It is unnecessary and a waste of the student’s time. As soon as the Registrar completes her preliminary student registration data report, such data is sent to my office for formatting and upload to Blackboard. Just inform your students that the login format is as illustrated below:
Login ID: Firstname.Lastname (e.g. John.Anderson)
Password: Student ID (e.g. 2434113)
If you have questions, please send me an email to that effect.
Thanks,
Azubike Okpalaeze, Ph.D.
Dillard University Office of Academic Affairs
Coordinator of Instructional Technology
2601 Gentilly Blvd
New Orleans, Louisiana 70122
(504) 816-4779
aokpala@dillard.edu
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