Learn About the New LiveOnline@UT, powered by Bb Collaborate
Whether you are currently teaching online or want to learn how to run live classes and meetings, you'll want to visit LiveOnline@UT to learn this flexible, new tool that helps you deliver highly effective and engaging online instruction, meetings, and help - anywhere, anytime! The possibilities are almost endless: virtual classes, blended learning, office hours, tutoring and mentoring, staff meetings, training, professional development, and more. me! The possibilities are almost endless: virtual classes, blended learning, office hours, tutoring and mentoring, staff meetings, training, professional development, and more.

Technology Tidbit
Create your LiveOnline@UT classroom from within Bb.

Instructors may now create their own online classrooms from within their Bb course site. Students may attend online classrooms and playback recordings from the course sites as well. For more information on setting up your BbC session, please see the "Collaborate Getting Started" instructions for instructors posted on http://liveonline.utk.edu or contact the OIT HelpDesk@ 974-9900 or help.utk.edu.

IT Community of Practice Continues Move about Campus
Our January meeting was held in the new Modern Foreign Languages Lab located in the Alumni Memorial Building. The TELL lab is equipped with some of the latest hardware and software available for teaching and learning foreign language and a number of other subjects! A few of the technology uses available for teaching include: virtual collaboration via videoconferencing, Skype, and Second life; presentation with Prezi, and in-class presentation and engagement with Doceri. To learn more about the facilities and various software available, contact Doug Canfield at 974-6494 or [log in to unmask]. Join us on February 23, 2012, from12:30 – 1:30 as the IT CoPBrown Bag lunch meeting moves to the Ag Campus to visit theTechnology Enhanced,ActiveLearning (TEAL) classroom in the Ellington Plant Sciences Building, Room 123.

For more information, or to be added to the IT CoP mailing list, contact Christina Goode at [log in to unmask] or 974-6470.

Did your students arrive in your class with the technology skills they needed to accomplish your assignments involving technology? Technology Training Workshops offered by OIT are designed to get students up to speed for their academic classes. They are conveniently located, and free to students. Many UTK faculty require or encourage their students to attend the workshops, to make their classes easier to manage, knowing that their students will have the skills needed to easily complete technology assignments. Please view the extensive workshop schedule for this semester and recommend these classes to the students you feel could use extra assistance in technology.

OIT sponsors GTA@OIT Grants to encourage UTK Graduate Teaching Associates and Assistants (GTAs) to incorporate technology into their teaching. GTAs with sole responsibility for teaching a course are paired with OIT instructional design staff to accomplish their goals for technology use.

In addition to mentoring, grant recipients receive a monetary incentive of $500 to purchase software, attend a professional conference, prepare a professional presentation or publication about integrating technology into a course, or use as a stipend.

GTA@OIT Spring 2012 grant proposals are due Friday, February 17, 2012 by 5pm. To view the Call for Proposals, visit https://itc.utk.edu/services/gta/. For more information, contact Christina Goode at [log in to unmask] or 974-6470.

Join Our Team! Faculty Fellow Program Seeking Applicants
The OIT Faculty Fellow Program contributes to the Instructional Support Group's focus of advancing exemplary teaching and enriching the experience of students. You can help us provide UT's learning communities with the support and resources to attain educational excellence through the appropriate use of technology. Pending budget approval, a Faculty Fellow will be funded for 2012-2013.

The deadline to apply is Monday, March 12, 2012. Our new Faculty Fellow will be announced by April 2, 2012.

For more information on the Faculty Fellow program, read the full description and Call for Proposals on the web.

Offerings in February include:

• Introductory SharePoint
• Share Point Permissions
• Share Point Team

Registration is required for all workshops. To view descriptions and register for sessions, visit the OIT workshops page. If you have questions or need help with registration for any of the workshops listed above, contact the HelpDesk at help.utk.edu or 974-9900.

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If you’d like to receive weekly updates on timely information about IT and reminders of upcoming workshops, you can subscribe to IT Weekly, which is emailed on Fridays. To subscribe, go to the IT Weekly listserv page and click on "Join or leave the list (or change settings)".

Learn more about all of our services and events at our Website, http://itc.utk.edu.