There’s a post up on the my.scranton portal about a brief outage on Thursday morning:
The appprd (production) database will be unavailable Thurs
Sept 15, 2011 from 6:30am to 8:30am.Systems Affected:
appprd (production) database, MyScranton, Banner INB, Self-Service (SSB), WorkFlow, and all other applications that connect to appprd production database
Jerry DeSanto recently sent an e-mail to the University community defining the responsible uses of the computing resources on campus. I’d like to call your attention particularly to the “Code of Responsible Computing for Faculty & Staff”. This is a document which I would suggest all members of the Faculty and Staff read through, simply to be aware of what is and is not “acceptable” under the university policy.
Other information can be found here.
Want to learn how to effectively use an iPad in the classroom? There’s an app for that! Or at least a Webinar. TAG was invited to a webinar about effective uses of iPads in the classroom. If you’re interested, or know someone who is, contact your friendly TAG representative! Space is limited, so please let us know if this is something you’re interested in! The Agenda is as follows:
• Exploring iPads
◦ Why use an iPad?
◦ Effective uses of the iPad
◦ Implementation
• Purposeful uses for learning
• Introducing a framework
◦ Pepperdine’s five-step process to help guide faculty members’ use of iPads in the classroom
Learn
Teach
Change
Explore
Implement
• Adding one more step: Assessment
• Getting started
◦ How can you get started working with faculty?
◦ Getting faculty buy-in
• Sharing case studies
◦ Why does this process work?
IT Services is going to home a Virtual Symposium on Internet 2 on September 15th. This Symposium is focusing on the use of Internet 2 in the Health Sciences, but will include topics like Videoconferencing and using Broadband Technology for scientific and educational purposes. Many of us use Internet 2 on a daily basis and don’t even realize it, because it’s all managed behind the scenes, but it’s a really valuable tool. If you’re interested, see the announcement copied below.
IT Services is pleased to announce an Internet 2 Virtual Symposium on Health Services.
Working with MAGPI (the Mid-Atlantic Gigapop in Philadelphia for Internet2),
The University of Scranton will act as a host site for this exciting opportunity.
Registration Now Open for the Advanced Networks and the Health Sciences Virtual Symposium
September 15, 2011 | 1 – 4 PM EDT
Target Audience: Healthcare Practitioners, Higher Education Faculty and Staff, Administrators, and Technology Staff
Location: Brennan Hall 228, The Pearn Auditorium
Cost: FREE!
Registration: http://magpi.net/user/login
MAGPI is pleased to bring you this exciting virtual Advanced Networks and the Health Sciences Symposium event. The Symposium builds upon the success of the national Teaching and Learning with Internet2 Symposium which was held on April 1st. The Health Sciences Symposium aims to reach medical and healthcare practitioners around the pedagogy and technology of delivering advanced healthcare.
Advanced research and education networks, such as Internet2, offer healthcare and medical practitioners and faculty opportunities to connect to a diverse array of resources and to collaborate with partners around the world toward the delivery of advanced healthcare. Through a series of keynote and breakout sessions, this half-day symposium is designed to give faculty and practitioners a taste of the range of projects and resources that exist and how they can be applied in their own teaching and healthcare practice.
Symposium Schedule:
1:00 – 2:00 PM EDT Keynote – Dr. Dale Alverson, University of New Mexico
2:00 – 2:50 PM EDT Breakout Session 1
Using Internet2 for Videoconferencing in PT by Calvin Wang, Arcadia University
HIMSS Career Services in Support of an HIT Career by Helen Figgee, HIMSS3:00 – 3:50 PM EDT Breakout Session 2
How Broadband Technology is Rapidly Changing the Face of Medicine by John Riehl, Medical Missions for Children
Connecting Healthcare – Information That Follows the Patient by Mark Jacobs, Delaware Health Information Network and Dr. Brian McDonough, St. Francis HospitalTo view full session abstracts and speakers’ bios please see the Symposium webpage at http://magpi.net/Community/Programs/Advanced-Networks-and-Health-Sciences-Symposium
More Information/Registration: http://magpi.net/Community/Programs/Advanced-Networks-and-Health-Sciences-Symposium
Just a heads up that there are iPads on campus available to students and faculty who want to try out tablet computing this fall.
Students can borrow one of three circulating iPads from the Library for a 24-hour period. (We’re also considering purchasing one or more Android tablets if this program proves popular.) The Library’s iPads are only available to students – not faculty or staff.
Faculty can borrow an iPad for a week at a time from the CTLE. Eugeniu sent out this announcement to all faculty on Friday:
Do you want to become familiar with the latest tablet technology and its use in pedagogical settings? The CTLE has an iPad that faculty can borrow for up to one week to explore and experiment with. With an iPad you can surf the web, check email, watch movies, read books, take and save class notes. You can download the latest apps and connect the iPad to the video projector in a mediated classroom. For more information or to borrow an iPad, contact the CTLE at x4038.
Faculty who are interested in using mobile devices in the classroom could also consider applying for one of the CTLE’s Teaching Enhancement Grants.
If you’re using a tablet or another mobile device to support your teaching or research this fall, please let us know how it goes!
This went out in an all-faculty email, so everyone should have gotten it, but just for record-keeping’s sake:
ANGEL will be unavailable on Monday August 22, from 8:00AM – 2:00PM to install Service Packs 12 & 13 for Version 7.4 and to conduct system and database maintenance. Please contact Jason Wimmer (wimmerj2@scranton.edu) with any questions or problems.
Thanks, Jason!
IR posted two notices about upcoming outages to the my.scranton portal:
There will be a brief internet outage on August 13, 2011 between 9:00 AM and 11:00 AM as maintenance is performed on internet infrastructure. Off campus resources will not be accessible from on campus. On campus resources will be unavailable from off campus. Please contact the Technology Support Center at 570-941-4357 with any questions.
and
Network Infrastructure will be performing system maintenance on the CNAC systems on August 15 2011, between 9:00 PM and 11:00 PM. No downtime for authenticated users on the wired network is expected. Downtime for wireless users is expected to be less than 10 minutes. Users attempting to authenticate to the wired or wireless network via CNAC will be unable to do so during this 10 minute window.
IR has shared with us these instructions (PDF) for faculty and staff who need to update pages on the new academic server (not the CMS).
As always, if you have questions or run into any trouble, please let us know!
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Update (8/1/11): Instructions were revised – the link now takes you to the corrected PDF. Thanks to Tim Cannon for catching the errors!
Just a reminder that the planned IR upgrade starts today at 4pm and continues through 8:30am on August 2. RoyalMail and Angel will be accessible, just not through the my.scranton portal.
