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November 24th News from DTLT

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NITLE Online Seminars

As I shared in our last email, through UMW's membership with NITLE, DTLT has purchased several programming units that allow University faculty to attend NITLE events. Many of these are held entirely online in NITLE's Multipoint Interactive Videoconferencing auditorium. There are a few upcoming events in December and January that DTLT would like to highlight:

You can read about these and NITLE's full compliment of events at www.nitle.org/www/events. If you are intersted in participating in any of these offerings, please contact Martha Burtis at mburtis@umw.edu.

Tech Symposium in December

As part of the Technology and Teaching Showcase Series (co-sponsored by DTLT and the UMW Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning), we will be hosting a workshop in December on Social Networking. The workshop will be offered once on each campus, and will provide faculty with an overview of Social Networking sites with particular focus on using Ning (www.ning.com) and Tapped In (www.tappedin.org) to create and participate in online communities where students share resources and make connections to peers and mentors in their field of interest. The workshop will be hands-on and take you through the process of creating your own social network using Ning.

  • Tuesday, December 2, 2:00 - 3:15 - CAS - Combs 349
  • Thursday, December 4, 2:30 - 3:45 - CGPS - North B124

 

New EDUCAUSE Resources

Check out The Tower and The Cloud, EDUCAUSE's latest e-book edited by Richard N. Katz, which examines how the gaining ubiquity of high-speed networks is empowering individuals to create and share information and leading to the development of computing systems at a scale never before imagined. In this volume, the contributing authors examine, in particular, what these forces mean for traditional brick-and-mortar colleges and universities.

You can download the entire e-book at www.educause.edu/thetowerandthecloud/133998.

You may also be intersted in the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative's (ELI's) recent article in the "7 Things You Shoud Know About" series. In the offering, ELI examines Ustream.tv, a free service for streaming and broadcasting video over the Web. The entire "7 Things" series can be found at www.educause.edu/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutSeries/7495.

Blackboard News

As announced at the faculty forums last week, UMW will be upgrading Blackboard from version 6.3 Basic to version 8 Enterprise over the winter holiday. The current version of Blackboard will go down on December 19th. On January 2, the new version will be available at http://blackboard.umw.edu. If you are interested in working on your spring courses between now and the 19th, you can add content to spring course instances (which have already been created) in the current version; any content that you place in spring courses before December 19th will be migrated to the new version.

More information about the upgrade (including links to online resources) is forthcoming after the Thanksgiving holiday.

Faculty Academy Planning

We are still looking for a few more faculty to participate in planning for Faculty Academy 2009. If you are interested in helping us work on conference programming, please contact Martha Burtis at mburtis@umw.edu.

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  • Teaching and Learning Technologies