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December Issue
2014 Faculty First Call for Proposals
OIT Faculty Spotlight
Origin Pro 9.1 Now Available
Project RITE Grant Recipients
Seeking GTA@OIT Grant Proposals
Image Processing Basics Workshop
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[http://itc2.utk.edu/newsletter_monthly/2012_04/I_icon.png]2014 Faculty First Call for Proposals
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The UTK Office of Information Technology Support Organization invites applications for the 2014 Faculty First Grant from individual UTK faculty members. The Faculty First Program supports the UTK faculty’s effective uses of technology in teaching. This is accomplished by forming a long-term partnership between a faculty member and OIT to reshape an existing course or course component. A faculty member will provide the content and serve as a subject matter expert, and OIT staff will implement the instructional development, incorporating the appropriate technology into the course. OIT assistance may include instructional design, web and multimedia development, video production, and technical assistance.
Proposals are due Thursday, December 12, 2013 at 5:00 pm. Access the Call for Proposals at the Faculty First<https://oit.utk.edu/instructional/development/faculty-first/Pages/default.aspx> website. Please contact Iryna Loboda with questions at 974-9670 or [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
[http://itc2.utk.edu/newsletter_monthly/2012_04/R_icon.png]Origin Pro 9.1 Now Available
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Origin Pro 9.1 Now Available on APPS@UT<https://oit.utk.edu/labs/Pages/Apps.aspx>!
Origin Pro, developed by OriginLab, is a software application tailored to the needs of scientists and engineers whose work depends heavily on graphic presentation and statistical analysis of data. Version 9.1 introduces more than 200 new features and improvements, such as changes and additions to the Origin Pro interface, better graph types and graph customizations, a new 2-D integration gadget and digitizer tool, new importing and exporting features and data worksheet manipulations, and new analysis features for curve fitting, peaks, signal processing, statistics and mathematics.
Click a link to view:
* new features<http://originlab.com/index.aspx?go=Products/Origin/91>
* Key Features by Version<http://originlab.com/index.aspx?go=Products/Origin&PID=1029>
* more than 100 video tutorials<http://originlab.com/index.aspx?go=SUPPORT/VideoTutorials>
* a multi-page booklet<http://www.originlab.com/Booklet/> that highlights the key features of Origin and Origin Pro
* complete documentation in the revamped online documentation system<http://originlab.com/doc/>; view all documents in one place and search topics across multiple books
Licensing for Origin Pro 9.1 is made possible through the UTK Student Technology Fee. It is available to students, faculty and staff who have access to OIT’s remote server<https://apps.utk.edu/vpn/index.html>.
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[http://itc2.utk.edu/newsletter_monthly/2012_04/I_icon.png]Seeking GTA@OIT Grant Proposals
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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 $1,000 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<https://oit.utk.edu/instructional/development/gta/Pages/default.aspx> Spring 2014 grant proposals are due Friday, February 14, 2014 by 5:00 pm. For more information, contact Christina Goode at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or 974-6470.
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[http://itc2.utk.edu/newsletter_monthly/2012_04/I_icon.png]OIT Faculty Spotlight
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Dr. Lila Holt: Taking an Undergraduate Course Online
In 2012, the Electronic Engineering and Computer Science department in the College of Engineering created an online version of Computer Science 100. The course, taught by Dr. Lila Holt, is designated as a Quantitative Reasoning course for the General Education Requirements.
According to Dr. Holt, the biggest challenge she encountered was her need to maintain clear and concise communication with the students. Her solution included the use of email; LiveOnline@UT, a synchronous online system; and regular office hours to meet with students face-to-face. Dr. Holt’s advice for aspiring online instructors is this: “Don’t reinvent the wheel” and "Seek OIT professionals’ assistance”.
Watch the video<https://oit.utk.edu/instructional/spotlight/Pages/default.aspx> to learn more about Dr. Holt’s experience with the online course, and visit the Spotlight Archive<https://oit.utk.edu/instructional/spotlight/archive/Pages/default.aspx> to learn how other faculty use technology in their classes and research.
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[http://itc2.utk.edu/newsletter_monthly/2012_04/I_icon.png]Project RITE Grant Recipients
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OIT’s Project RITE (Research of Instructional Technology in Education) Grant Recipients have been announced for 2013-2014. The recipients were selected based on their concepts to design and conduct research regarding how instructional technology affects their students’ learning. This year, UT Knoxville and UT Martin awarded a total of eight grants. See Project RITE<https://oit.utk.edu/instructional/development/rite/Pages/default.aspx> for details.
[http://itc2.utk.edu/newsletter_monthly/2012_04/I_icon.png]Image Processing Basics Workshop
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Image processing is widely used in scientific fields. ImageJ is a powerful open-source image analysis program created at the National Institutes of Health. It runs on a variety of operating systems and was designed with an open architecture that provides extensibility via Java plugins and recordable macros. ImageJ can display, edit, analyze, process, save, and print most image formats. ImageJ supports various image manipulations, measures distances and angles, and calculates area and pixel value statistics of user-defined selections and intensity thresholded objects. ImageJ also performs operations on ordered sequences of images (i.e., image stacks).
OIT offers an ImageJ workshop each semester. Topics include basic image processing problems such as image calibration, correction, enhancement and segmentation. Both ImageJ and R are open-source software packages and can be downloaded for free from ImageJ<http://rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/> and R<http://cran.us.r-project.org/>.
Other resources for image processing, such as MathWorks’s MATLAB image processing toolbox and R image processing packages, will be briefly discussed. All University of Tennessee campuses, except Martin, can download MATLAB for free<https://web.dii.utk.edu/softwaredistribution/login.aspx> (log in, then select "MathWorks, Inc.") and install it on personally-owned and UT-owned computers.
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November 2013 Uptime:
Blackboard <https://oit.utk.edu/instructional/tools/online/Pages/bbstats.aspx> 99.4%
Collaborate<https://oit.utk.edu/instructional/tools/liveonline/Pages/bbcstats.aspx> 99.7%
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