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 OIT
to Host "Faculty Meet and Greet"
The Office of Information Technology's Support Organization will host a "Faculty Meet and Greet" on
Wednesday, October 31, 2012. All faculty are invited to come and interact with staff from OIT's Instructional Support, Research Support, Digital Media Services, HelpDesk, and Lab Services. The "Masquerade Ball" themed event will take place
in our new location on the 5th floor of Greve Hall from 10:30am – 1:30pm. While you are here the Tennessee Teaching and Learning Center will be hosting their open house on the 6th floor. For details, check
https://oit.utk.edu/events/meetgreet/ or call 974-9670.
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 Fall
2012 GTA@OIT Grants Awarded
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 Fall 2012 grant recipients are listed below. For more information, contact Christina Goode at
[log in to unmask] or 974-6470.
Christi Culpepper
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Psychology
College of Arts Sciences
"Utilizing Online Resources to Provide A Unique Learning Experience"
Charles Wilson, Jr.
Graduate Teaching Associate, Kinesiology, Recreation and Sport Studies
College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences
"Flipping the Classroom for Social Issues and Sport"
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 JMP
Genomics offers 90-day free trial
A free 90-day trial version of JMP Genomics software is available to faculty, staff and students at all UT campuses. JMP Genomics, from SAS, is an all-in-one package for integrated
statistical analysis of genetic marker, microarray, and spectral data (such as proteomics and metabolomics). It is designed to detect differential expression patterns, discover reliable biomarker profiles, and incorporate pathway information into your analysis
workflows. JMP Genomics couples the statistical discovery tools and visualization graphics of JMP with the powerful analytics of SAS software to process genomics data from a variety of sources. JMP Genomics 5 introduces capabilities for interfacing with SAS,
JMP, R, Excel and other tools. Software and installation instruction can be downloaded for free on the
OIT website. Your feedback regarding JMP Genomics will assist us in determing whether or not to obtain the site license for JMP Genomics in the future. Please contact Xiaocun Sun ([log in to unmask] , 865-974-7505) to leave comments
or suggestions regarding your experiences with JMP Genomics.
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Technology
Tidbit
Blackboard Collaborate Has An App!
Blackboard Collaborate Mobile, is now available for download from the Apple iTunes App Store. This app allows users to join live sessions from an iPad™ or iPhone® through their course site, an email link, or a calendar invite. With the app, participants can
view presentations and whiteboard activity, communicate through chat and audio, and even raise a hand to request attention from the instructor. Instructors will be able to see who is attending sessions on mobile devices, and assign grades for attending live
sessions or viewing recorded ones.
For instructions on how to use the app, please visit our Mobile Applications webpage.
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Fall
2012 IT CoP Gets Underway
The first IT Community of Practice Brown Bag Lunch meeting for Fall 2012 was held on Wednesday, September 26th. The topic of discussion was Research. Faculty and staff shared their
software and hardware experiences related to constructing and administering research. OIT's Research Support Group was on hand to provide insight on the services available to faculty, staff and GTAs. The remaining IT CoP meetings for the Fall semester are
listed below. Hope to see you there! For more information, contact Christina Goode at
[log in to unmask] or 974-6470.
October 31, 2012 – OIT Faculty Meet and Greet – Greve Hall 5th Floor
November 29, 2012 – Summer Teaching Institute Showcase – Greve Hall Room 520
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Free
Assistance to Improve Research
OIT's Research Computing Support (RCS) team receives many questions about how to analyze data. In many cases, the questions are after the data is collected and thus, it may not be
possible to answer key research questions. One of the most frequent problems we see is caused by control groups that differ from the treatment group by more than just the treatment.
Every research design course that covers human or animal studies emphasizes the need for a control group. Organisms change, even when no treatment is applied. The control group needs to be comparable to the treatment group in every feasible way and needs to
experience everything the same except for the precise treatment itself. It may not be possible to have groups completely matched on potential confounding variables like blood pressure or grade point average. Statistics can do some correcting for measures like
that. But when the groups are treated differently on more than one factor at a time (e.g. healing + empathy + resting), there is nothing statistics can do to fix the study.
RCS consultants are very familiar with experimental design issues. The next time you're designing a study, give us a call. It usually takes less than an hour to review your plans and the help is free! Call the HelpDesk at 974-9900 for an appointment.
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