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[News from Innovative Technology Consulting]
March 2012
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OIT's Research Computing News Merges with Instructional Support eNews
Since 2002, Research Computing News has provided news regarding software and services for researchers. That news will now be rolled into OIT's monthly newsletter, enabling us to get you the information you need more quickly. The OIT monthly newsletter is available at: http://itc2.utk.edu/newsletter_monthly. There you can also subscribe to future issues. We appreciate all the nice feedback we received regarding Research Computing News and we will do our best to keep the information flowing in its new form.
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Technology Tidbit
[https://itc2.utk.edu/newsletter_monthly/2012_03/technologytidbit.jpg]Clickers Enhance Classroom Engagement and Promote Agile Teaching
Using clickers, or "personal response devices," allows everyone to become more active and engaging within the class. Beyond taking attendance, clickers can be used to foster peer instruction, engage in friendly competition, initiate content discourse, direct content delivery[https://itc2.utk.edu/newsletter_monthly/2012_03/classroom2.jpg], and of course enhance content retention. Attend an Advanced Clicker Technology workshop to help increase engagement in your class. Visit the OIT workshops<https://oit.utk.edu/Training/instructor-led/Pages/default.aspx> page or contact the OIT HelpDesk at 974-9900 or help.utk.edu<file:///Downloads/help.utk.edu>.
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IT Community of Practice Moves about Campus
[https://itc2.utk.edu/newsletter_monthly/2012_03/CoP2.jpg]For our February meeting, we traveled to the Ag Campus to visit the Technology Enhanced, Active Learning (TEAL) classroom in the Ellington Plant Sciences Building. The TEAL lab is equipped with some of the latest hardware and software available for teaching and learning. We got a chance to experience the equipment from the students' perspective by using iPads, laptops, and cellphones with classroom displays for small group collaboration and engagement. To learn more about the facilities and various software available, contact Joanne Logan at 974-8803 or [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. Join us on March 28, 2012, from 12:30 1:30 as the IT CoP Brown Bag lunch meeting visits the Scripps Convergence Lab in the Communications Building, Room 402G.
For more information, or to be added to the IT CoP mailing list, contact Christina Goode at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or 974-6470.
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Join Our Team!
Faculty Fellows Program Seeking Applicants
[https://itc2.utk.edu/newsletter_monthly/2012_03/teaching.jpg]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 26, 2012. Our new Faculty Fellow will be announced by April 9, 2012.
For more information on the Faculty Fellow program, read the full description and Call for Proposals<https://oit.utk.edu/instructional/development/fellows/Pages/default.aspx> on the web.
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OIT Announces Call for Proposals for New mLearning Initiative
The development of mobile devices and their accompanying varied applications (apps) have taken the concept of anytime, anywhere learning to an all-time high, increasing the possibilities for collaborative and innovative instruction. Thus, OIT is pleased to announce a new mLearning initiative for faculty innovators to integrate tablet and handheld network devices ("smartphones") and mobile applications into multiple courses.
The deadline to apply is 5pm - Friday, April 6, 2012. The mLearning 2012 Pilot participants will be announced on April 20, 2012.
For more information, visit the Call for Proposals<https://oit.utk.edu/instructional/development/mlearning/Pages/default.aspx> or contact Michael Burke at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or 974-8893.
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GTA@OIT Grant Recipients Announced
[https://itc2.utk.edu/newsletter_monthly/2012_03/GTA-student2.jpg]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.
The Spring 2012 recipients are:
Vittorio Marone, GTA, Educational Psychology and Counseling. An Online Community of Learners and Creators.
Derek Martin, GTA, Geography. Teaching technologies in the geoscience classroom: Implementing on-line study modules and social media.
Elizabeth Price, GTA, Educational Psychology and Counseling. Did anyone read the chapter? Accountability in a pre-service teacher core course.
For more information, visit https://oit.utk.edu/instructional/development/gta/, or contact Christina Goode at cgoode@utk<mailto:cgoode@utk>.edu or 974-6470.
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OIT's 2012 Faculty First Participants Chosen!
The Faculty First Program creates a long-term partnership between a faculty member and the OIT Instructional Support staff to design and develop instructional materials and courses as well as to explore innovative uses of technology in teaching. This year's participants are:
Lila Holt, Ph.D., and Michael Berry, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. COCS 100 Online.
Barbara K. Kaye, Ph.D., Professor, Journalism & Electronic Media. Enhancing Research Methods Online for Use as a Model Journalism Course.
Maureen A. Nalle, PhD, RN, Clinical Associate Professor and Laurie Acred-Natelson, MSN, RN, NEA, BC, Clinical Instructor. Preparing Nurse Leaders for Quality Improvement: A QSEN Module for Undergraduate Students.
Suzy Prentiss, Ph.D., Instructor, Communication Studies. Use of Assessment Rubrics for All Speeches (CMST 210 and CMST 240).
Lisa M. Rimmell, MS, CRC, CI/CT, Clinical Instructor, Educational Psychology and Counseling and Kimberly A. Wolbers, Ph.D., CI/CT, Assistant Professor. Theory and Practice in Teacher Education. Deafness-focused Video Modules.
Megan S. Ryerson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering. Transportation Data Collection and Analysis in Support of Transportation Education.
Rapinder Sawhney, Ph.D., Professor and Department Head, Industrial and Information Engineering. Development of Interactive Classroom Using Natural Interaction Technologies.
Reba Umberger, PhD, RN, CCRN, Assistant Professor. Developing an Online Epidemiology Course for Graduate Nursing Students.
Visit the Faculty First Program website<https://oit.utk.edu/instructional/development/faculty-first/Pages/default.aspx> to learn more about the participants' projects. If you have questions, please contact Iryna Loboda at 974-5735 or [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
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New Apps@UT Server
A new server named Apps@UT now provides applications, disk space, and computing power to all UTK faculty, staff, and students. Apps@UT will let you run software so that it appears to be installed and running on your PC, Mac, Linux computer or even iPad or Android tablet. The applications can open files stored on your local computer and print to your local printer.
Macintosh users should find Apps@UT particularly useful since much of the software is not available in native Mac form. However, Mac users will be able to run them just fine without the need for a copy of Windows on their machines (or Bootcamp or Parallels). Initially Apps@UT has 29 research applications, but in the coming months we will expand that selection to include a much wider range of software, eventually containing most of the applications that the OIT computer labs now offer.
Each person at UTK will also have 25 Gigabytes of storage space available. Somewhat like the popular Dropbox service, this storage space, called TStorage, will be accessible from the server and from your desktop/laptop too! Unlike the server it replaces (Analysis.utk.edu<http://Analysis.utk.edu>), there is no fee for faculty and staff to use it. It also has far more power and many hundreds of simultaneous logins available.
Using Apps@UT is easy. Full instructions, including a list of applications, are at http://tiny.utk.edu/apps. A set of frequently asked questions is available at http://oit.utk.edu/helpdesk/kb/177/. As usual, if you have problems using the server or the software that is on it, contact the OIT HelpDesk at 974-9900.
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Stata 12 Now Available
The new Apps@UT server has the latest version of Stata 12 MP. This version adds a wide range of new features such as import/export of Excel files, structural equation modeling with a graphical model builder, and improved multiple imputation. For details about those and many other improvements, see http://www.stata.com/stata12/.
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MATLAB Day 2012 Offers Free Training
[https://itc2.utk.edu/newsletter_monthly/2012_03/mathworks.jpg]Initiated in 2008, MATLAB Day at UTK is an annual event where students, researchers, faculty, and staff from all UT campuses converge to advance their technical skills, share ideas, and network with MathWorks, Inc. technical staff, developers of MATLAB, Simulink and their many application specific add-ons.
MathWorks engineers will be at UT Knoxville on Wednesday, March 28, 2012 to teach two MATLAB sessions. The morning session (10am Noon) topic is "Mathematical Modeling with MATLAB." In this session you will learn the range of modeling approaches possible with MATLAB, when to use each, and why. The afternoon session (1pm 2:30pm) topic is "Parallel Computing with MATLAB." In this session you will learn how to solve computationally and data-intensive problems using multicore processors, GPUs and computer clusters.
For more information and to register, please visit The MATLAB<http://www.mathworks.com/company/events/seminars/seminar62704.html>. When registering, you will be asked to select the session(s) that you will attend. Please join us for this free training.
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Improved Support for Biology and Bioinformatics
OIT's Research Computing Support group has expanded its support of biology and bioinformatics by hiring Xiaocun ("Sun") Sun, Ph.D Sun has a B.S. in medicine, an M.S. in endocrinology, an M.S. in statistics and a Ph.D. in Human Ecology / Nutrition. She also has 16 publications in peer-reviewed journals, two patents and a book chapter. Sun will be focusing on mixed models and tools to analyze bioinformatic data. To make an appointment with her, contact the OIT HelpDesk at 974-9900.
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More Technology Training Workshops for You
and Your Students
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Offerings in March include:
Student-Focused
* Creative Design: Photoshop, Dreamweaver
* Productivity: Access, Excel, Electronic Thesis and Dissertation
* Website Design: Dreamweaver
Registration is required for all workshops. To view descriptions and register for sessions, visit the OIT workshops page<https://oit.utk.edu/Training/instructor-led/>. If you have questions or need help with registration for any of the workshops listed above, contact the HelpDesk at help.utk.edu<http://help.utk.edu> or 974-9900.
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Check Out IT Weekly!
If youd 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<http://listserv.utk.edu/archives/itweekly.html> and click on "Join or leave the list (or change settings)."
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Learn more about all of our services and events at our Website, https://oit.utk.edu/instructional/.
[Blackboard scheduled uptime]
February 2012
Scheduled: 100%
Total: 99.6%
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[https://itc2.utk.edu/newsletter_monthly/2012_03/collaboratebutton3.jpg]February 2012
Total: 99.6%
Learn more<https://oit.utk.edu/instructional/tools/liveonline/Pages/bbcstats.aspx>
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[https://itc2.utk.edu/newsletter_monthly/2012_03/spotlight.jpg] Faculty
Spotlight
Dr. Sιbastien
Dubreil<https://oit.utk.edu/instructional/spotlight/Pages/default.aspx>
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Instructional Technology
March Workshops
Register for a Workshop<https://oit.utk.edu/Training/instructor-led/instructor/>
Introduction to LiveOnline@UT
Learn how to manage your virtual classroom through live audio, text chat, real-time polling, and content sharing.
Tue, 3/13, 2-4pm
Using the Assignment Manager and SafeAssign in Online@UT
SafeAssign is a software resource designed to help students avoid plagiarism and improper citation.
Mon, 3/12, 2-4pm
Wed, 3/28, 1-3pm
Online@UT Assessment Tools
Learn to create, manage, deploy, and grade online assessments. Develop question pools, surveys, and more. Enhance student engagement, gather data, and provide instant feedback and assessment.
Mon, 3/13, 10am-12pm
Wed, 3/29, 1-3pm
Best Practices for Online@UT Assessment Tools
Learn to create, manage, deploy, and grade online assessments using the assessment tools in [log in to unmask]
Tue, 3/13, 10am-12pm
Thu, 3/29, 2pm-4pm
Grade Center Best Practices
Discover new and redesigned tools for managing grades online using the Online@UT Grade Center.
Thu, 3/15, 2-4pm
Tue, 3/27, 9-11am
Blogs and Wikis in Online@UT
Explore Online@UT blogs and wikis, configure these tools for different purposes, and discuss their instructional uses.
Wed, 3/14, 1-3pm
Mon, 3/26, 2-4pm
Introduction to Online@UT
Access your online course site, receive an overview of instructor development tools and resources, and learn to upload a variety of document types.
Wed, 3/22, 2-4pm
Advanced Uses of Clicker Technology
If you're ready to take clicker technology to the next level, then this class is for you!
Wed, 3/21, 1-4pm
Register for a Workshop<https://oit.utk.edu/Training/instructor-led/instructor/>
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