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March Issue
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 ITCoP:
Save the Date March 26
Enjoy OIT’s next Brown Bag Lunch meeting, where our conversation will focus on
engagement strategies in the flipped classroom!
Who:
Dr. Gladys Alexandre, Biochemistry, Cellular, and Molecular Biology, Dr. Jim Stoval, Journalism and Electronic Media.
When?
Wednesday, March 26, 11:30am-12:30pm.
Where?
Hodges Library, Commons North, Practice Presentation Room, 220E.
For more information, contact Christina Goode at 974-6470 or email her at
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Learn
Excel Online
Give yourself the gift of time!
Did you know that Excel can make time fly? The next time you create an Excel spreadsheet, the OIT trainers recommend that you check Excel’s “Available Templates” pane…these templates were designed to save you lots of time, and a graphic artist or two!
To learn about Microsoft Excel’s templates and advanced features, go to
Microsoft IT Academy, click Authenticate & Receive Access Code, then register for the Microsoft Excel 2013 Essentials course.
Now… start saving time!
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Online
Perspectives:
My Class, Your Class, Our Class
Need help engaging your online class? Attend a new OIT-sponsored online workshop for tips and strategies to foster online class engagement and collaboration. This Make-It, Take-It workshop format uses LiveOnline@UT, a virtual learning environment powered
by Blackboard Collaborate, to allow participants to experience, create, and practice online engagement.
Register for Online Perspectives Workshop
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Announcing
New Series:
UnCommon Teaching and Learning
UnCommon Teaching and Learning is an informal occasion for faculty to discuss their teaching research and practice with other interested faculty. This semester our focus is on service learning across the disciplines. Discussions are held from 12:05 to 12:55
in the Hodges library, Mary E. Greer Room (258), on the following dates (all Wednesdays):
- March 12: Sherry Cable, Sociology
- March 26: Polly McArthur and Tami Bland, College of Nursing
- April 2: Mike McKinney: Earth and Planetary Sciences; Rob Spirko, English
- April 9: Ernie Cadotte, College of Business; John Nolt, Philosophy
UnCommon Teaching and Learning is a collaborative effort of Tenn TLC, University Libraries, and OIT Instructional Support.
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 Mathematica
9 in Education
and Research
OIT invites you to attend a technical talk on “Mathematica 9 in Education and Research.” The presenter, Troy Schaudt from Wolfram, Inc., will illustrate the capabilities in Mathematica 9 and other Wolfram technologies that are directly applicable for use
in teaching and research on the UTK campus. Topics of this technical talk include:
- Predictive Interface
- Free-form linguistic input
- 2D and 3D visualization
- Dynamic interactivity & On-demand scientific data
- Example-driven course materials
- Symbolic interface construction
- Digital Image Processing, Parallelization, and Control Systems functionality
Current Mathematica users will benefit from seeing the many improvements and new features of
Mathematica 9. Prior knowledge of Mathematica is not required.
Read more or register for the technical talk (requires NetID/password).
Note: onsite registration is also available and will begin 30 minutes prior to the session.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014
1:00-2:00pm, including Q&A
Shiloh Room, Room 235 of the UTK University Center
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Research
Software License Limitations
OIT offers a wide range of centrally funded site licenses for
research software, as shown on the OIT site, “Software
Available at Reduced or No Additional Cost”. These
licenses, however, come with limitations on their use that are
important to understand. Although they can be used for
teaching and internal research, use for the benefit of third
parties, such as government organizations or corporations, is prohibited, except for government organizations that provide federal grants (e.g., NIH and NSF).
Research for outside organizations requires a commercial or consulting license, regardless of the profit/non-profit status of the outside organization.
IBM products, including SPSS, can be used for class projects that help outside organizations, but only those for which the results are available to the general public. That license is separate from UT’s centrally supported SPSS license. For such use, professors
must obtain the software for their classes. Details are available at the IBM Academic Initiative website.
Research done to improve the functioning of UT requires an administrative license. Software for which we have both academic and administrative licenses include: ArcGIS, QDA Miner, Qualtrics, SPSS and Wordstat. An administrative license is available for SAS
products, but you must purchase it separately.
One of the most popular aspects of free and open source software (e.g., R, PSPP, Python, RapidMiner) is that it can be used for any purpose. A free, but not open source,
“lite” version of QDA Miner is available that you can use for any purpose.
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Faculty
First Program 2014: Awards
The Faculty First Program was established to assist UTK faculty in their use of technology in teaching. Each year, OIT issues a “Call for Proposal” that invites UTK faculty to apply for a Faculty First grant. OIT awards the winner(s) of the grant a long-term
partnership with OIT that will assist in meeting proposed technology-in-teaching goals. OIT assistance may include instructional design, web and multimedia development, video production, and technical assistance.
The 2014 Faculty First Grants were awarded to:
- Dr. Andrew M. Bliss, School of Music
- Mr. Bob Guest, Department of Mathematics
- Dr. Youn-Kyung Kim, Department of Retail, Hospitality, and Tourism Management
- Dr. Stefanie Ohnesorg, Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures
- Dr. Maria Gallmeier, Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures
- Dr. Laura Trujillo-Mejía, Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures
View the 2014 Faculty First Recipients
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Schedule
a Lucky 7!
Do you need technology training on your time schedule? Do your students need a particular technology skill for your course? If so, you are in luck! In addition to OIT’s scheduled and advertised workshops, OIT trainers are offering "Lucky 7" workshops from
our active list of OIT workshops. Gather 7-16 participants, and we'll schedule a workshop just for you.
To schedule a workshop, please contact the
OIT HelpDesk and provide your name and NetID, your department’s name, the number of people who will attend, and the dates and times of your first and second workshop choices.
NOTE: Workshops will be scheduled two or more weeks from the date they are requested.
Learn more about scheduling a Lucky 7 workshop
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Inspirations
"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something.” That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your
veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the
only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn."
– T.H. White
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