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Help Desk and Tech Services Hours During Break (open Monday-Friday only): Friday, Dec. 14 Close at 4:30 pm Monday, Dec. 17 – Friday Dec. 21 8:00 am – 4:30 pm Monday, Dec. 24 – Tuesday, Jan. 1 Closed Wednesday, Jan. 2 – Friday, Jan. 11 8:00 am- 4:30 pm Spring Opening: Sunday, Jan 13 Noon [...]

As of 10:04 am, Nov. 29th Mindtouch is back in operation.

The campuses wiki server (http://mindtouch.oneonta.edu) is down as of 7:55 am on Nov. 29th. Questions or concerns about this should be directed to Jim Greenberg at x 2701.

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SOPHOS (antivirus application) released an update that is generating large numbers of false-positive alerts. As soon as we obtain a new update from the company we will deploy it to stop the false alerts.

The SUNY Learning Network – Faculty Direct Services Workshops Applying the Quality Matters Rubric Workshops This training will explore the SLN/Quality Matters Initiative and processes. This initiative aims to provide faculty with a mechanism for continuous improvement in instructional design. It will prepare you to be part of a program that can positively impact the [...]

When: Date: Wednesday, September 12, 2012, 6:30-7AM

Objective: Move existing Banner application servers from Oracle Forms to WebLogic Service
Impacted Service: Banner INB/SSB
Contact: Deb McClenon – x2871 or deb.mcclenon@oneonta.edu

In recent days (Sept. 5, 2012) faculty have been reporting delays in ANGEL email delivery. The error in ANGEL is worded something like: N number of messages are delivery delayed and that it will keep trying until a certain date. Usually this means the messages will eventually get sent and you don’t need to do [...]

Meeting dates for fall 2012

September 4, 19
October 2, 17
November 6,28
All meetings are outside of Starbucks in the Hunt Union at 8 am.

Tablet Innovation Grants Call for Proposals The purpose of this program is to explore the implications of an increasingly mobile environment on effective teaching and learning practices. The program intends to fund tablet computers for a single cohort of students (up to 35 students) and appropriate support tools (computing equipment, software, etc) for the faculty [...]

This year incoming freshman will take classes from faculty that were born around the time Ronald Regan was president and the Dow Industrial Average was around 2,000. Some of their older faculty will remember when Michael Jackson’s Bad album was popular, and when the United States invaded Panama. Their faculty will have spent most of [...]

There is a swelling debate in higher education about the use and potential misuse of increasingly powerful analytic tools that can be used to discern patterns in large data sources. The term “Learning Analytics” has been broadly applied to this emerging trend. Journals such as The Chronicle of Higher Education have given considerable space to [...]

A directory of recent research by Oneonta faculty can be found online at http://www.oneonta.edu/academics/research/
Soon, student research projects will be added to the site as well, representing the impressive academic work being done at the college.

With help from the TLTC, the College’s Academic Master Planning Committee is receiving training on using Atlas.ti a qualitative analysis system. This software will enable the AMP Committee to identify themes in the campus response to surveys they conducted. The group has secured the consulting services of ResearchTalk, a qualitative analysis consulting company. For more information [...]

A growing number of SUNY Oneonta and faculty and staff have begun to explore the enterprise social networking software called Yammer (https://www.yammer.com). Recently purchased by Microsoft for a cool $1.5 billion dollars, Yammer is a private “Facebook like” system for business and organizations. It includes a “feed”, file sharing, group creation, collaborative page creation, messaging, [...]

Jim Greenberg, Director of the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center, recently completed an EDUCAUSE Leadership Institute on Teaching and Learning with Technology. The institute brought together IT leaders from around the nation to explore how disruptive technologies are impacting Higher Education. See http://www.educause.edu/events/learning-technology-leadership-program for more information. If you would like to know more about this [...]

Each spring the TLTC surveys faculty on the usefulness of the course management software ANGEL. The survey focuses on seven important “good teaching” areas identified by the American Association of Higher Education (see http://www.tltgroup.org/programs/seven.html). Please take a moment to complete the survey at the following web site. Your responses are important to us and will [...]

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