CITations
October 9, 2009
No. 249
CITations is a report featuring information technology-related news of interest to UNC-Chapel Hill faculty members, graduate instructors and the staff who support them. CITations, published twice a month, is an electronic service of the ITS Teaching and Learning division.
ITS Annual Report Available
Google Scholar Talk
Internet Privacy and Security Workshop
Talk on Course Redesign
UNC Library Offers Mobile Options
Online Networking Tools Link You to Library News
Games4learning Events Audio Archives
Talk at Duke: Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars
Security Talk
RTP Cisco User Group Forming
CFE Workshops
OASIS Workshops
ITS LearnIT Workshops
2009 CITations Publication Schedule
How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to CITations
ITS ANNUAL REPORT AVAILABLE
The UNC-Chapel Hill Information Technology Services' annual report "ITS Year in Review, July 1, 2008 – June 30, 2009" is now available online at http://its.unc.edu/ccm/groups/public/@its/@cio/documents/content/ccm3_008138.pdf.
This past fiscal year, the first under the leadership of Larry Conrad, vice chancellor for information technology and chief information officer, was a particularly busy and challenging one for ITS.
Under Conrad's direction, ITS concentrated on:
-- better aligning services and support with the needs of the campus community
-- working to become more customer service focused in responding to the needs of faculty, students and staff
-- listening to the community, and
-- working in partnership with other IT providers at the University to coordinate service delivery.
GOOGLE SCHOLAR TALK
What does Google Scholar offer? Who can best make use of it? How does it compare with proprietary databases? What effect does search strategy have on results?
Google makes a wide variety of different applications available to users. As well as being free, many of them are fun, engaging, useful, or all three. Join Rita Moss, Davis Library Business/Economics Librarian, for a brown-bag lunch presentation and discussion on the search features and coverage accessible through Google Scholar.
When: 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m., Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Where: Room 214, Davis Library
All faculty, staff, and students are invited to attend.
The Scholarly Communication Working Group is sponsored by the Odum Institute. For more information about the group, go to http://www.unc.edu/schol-com/.
INTERNET PRIVACY AND SECURITY WORKSHOP
The Internet has brought the world to us -- and in many ways makes it possible for us to be exposed to the world. What privacy and security issues surround the information we find and create? How do we think about balancing our desire to find and create information with our concern for privacy and security? Are you excited about or afraid of applications like Google Streetview, Facebook, Twitter, and personal blogs? How can the University support students, faculty, and staff in finding a balance between the opportunities for convenience and connection and the need for privacy and security?
Join Anne Klinefelter, associate professor of law and director of the law library, to explore these issues of privacy and security on the Internet. The event is co-sponsored by Information Technology Services and the Center for Faculty Excellence.
When: 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m., Thursday, October 15, 2009
Where: Toy Lounge, Dey Hall
For more information and to register, go to http://tinyurl.com/itstl101509-unc-edu.
TALK ON COURSE REDESIGN
For many years, foreign language courses emphasized face-to-face time so students could practice speaking and understanding. As enrollments increased and classroom spaces became harder to find, the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Romance Languages looked to technology to continue giving students necessary learning opportunities while relieving the pressure of offering larger class sizes and more course sections.
Two years ago, Spanish 101 and Spanish 102 (the introductory Spanish courses) moved from the traditional face-to-face format to a hybrid format that relied on technology while retaining a face-to-face component. This fall, the department is developing a fully online version of Spanish 101. In this latest ConsiderIT event,"Spanish 101 Course Redesign: Moving From Face-to-Face to Hybrid to Online," Hosun Kim, director of the Foreign Language Resource Center and lecturer in Spanish, will describe how the course redesign is helping meet departmental needs while retaining solid pedagogy and student learning outcomes. This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Faculty Excellence and Information Technology Services.
When: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m., Monday, October 19, 2009
Where: Toy Lounge, Dey Hall
For more information and to register, go to http://tinyurl.com/itstl101909-unc-edu.
UNC LIBRARY OFFERS MOBILE OPTIONS
Users of mobile phones, Blackberries, and similar devices now have access to UNC Library collections and services with two sites designed just for them:
-- Mobile UNC Library site: http://www.lib.unc.edu/m
-- Blackberry and plain-text: http://www.lib.unc.edu/m/plain/
The mobile sites provide access to books, journals, research tools, and, of course, librarians in a format specially designed for on-the-go research.
Site features include mobile-friendly access to:
-- Library hours and contact information
-- Online catalog
-- IM and text connections to librarians
-- Research tools including the RefWorks bibliographic management program and the PubMed database from the National Library of Medicine.
The Library is eager to receive feedback on the mobile sites. Contact Chad Haefele, Davis Library Reference Department, at CHaefele@email.unc.edu, to ask questions or share suggestions.
ONLINE NETWORKING TOOLS LINK YOU TO LIBRARY NEWS
The UNC Library provides you with several ways to get news about library services and events:
Library News and Events Blog
http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/news/
UNCLibrary on Twitter
http://twitter.com/UNCLibrary
UNC-Chapel Hill Library on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Chapel-Hill-NC/UNC-Chapel-Hill-Library/110056955968
Want more news? Then check out other campus library blog, Facebook, and Twitter links at http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/news/index.php/more-blogs-and-news-from-unc-library/.
GAMES4LEARNING EVENTS AUDIO ARCHIVES
If you were unable to attend recent Games4Learning events, you can listen to the audio recordings that are now available online.
Learner Motivation in Games
Presenter: Elizabeth Lyons
Audio: http://its.unc.edu/ccm/groups/public/@its/@tandl/@games4/documents/content/ccm3_008098.mp3
Authentic Learning in Virtual Worlds
Presenter: Marilyn Lombardi
Audio: http://its.unc.edu/ccm/groups/public/@its/@tandl/@games4/documents/content/ccm3_008142.mp3
TALK AT DUKE: MORAL PANICS AND THE COPYRIGHT WARS
William Patry, Senior Copyright Counsel at Google, Inc., will deliver the eighth annual Meredith and Kip Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property, titled "Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars: A Reply to Jack Valenti". Patry is the author of the new book Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars (Oxford University Press, 2009). For more information go to http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/lectures/patry.
When: 12:15 p.m., Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Where: Room 3041, Duke Law School, Duke University
The event is open to all; a bagged lunch is included, with a reception and book signing to follow.
The lecture is sponsored by Center for the Study of the Public Domain. For more information, see http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/.
Please note: You can ride the Robertson Scholars Express Bus to Duke to attend this talk. The bus schedule is available at http://www.robertsonscholars.org/index.php?type=static&source=68.
SECURITY TALK
Matt Jamison, Solutions Architect for Red Hat, will be making a presentation on security in the RHEL operating system. Jamison was Red Hat's first internal helpdesk employee. After that he was Red Hat's only QA engineer for both Red Hat Network and Satellite. In 2004, he became a Solutions Architect for Red Hat focusing on the Government sector. The talk is sponsored by the ITS Information Security Office.
When: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m., Thursday, October 29, 2009
Where: Room 008, Peabody Hall
-- Tim Cline, Information Security Analyst
ITS Information Security Office
tel: 445-9388
email: Tim_Cline@unc.edu
RTP CISCO USER GROUP FORMING
The RTP Cisco User Group (RTP-CUG) has just been formed by ITS consultant Thomas Jones. RTP-CUG has three primary goals:
1. To have TED Talk-style keynote presentations regarding networking technologies, and how they impact businesses to include corporations, healthcare, government, education, and web 3.14159 companies/startups.
2. To establish and maintain professional networks, social networks, and mentor/mentee relationships.
3. To encourage and facilitate certification guidance and achievement.
To join the group go either to the Facebook site: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=265535010503
or the LinkedIn site: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2361447&trk=anet_ug_grppro
-- Thomas Jones, IT Consultant
Information Technology Services
email: jotho@email.unc.edu
CFE WORKSHOPS
The Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE) invites you to join us for our fall 2009 events. We offer workshops throughout the semester, addressing a wide variety of teaching topics. Workshops coming up in October and November include:
PowerPointed: Real-Time Revisions
October 12
Teaching Portfolios
(co-sponsored with The Graduate School)
October 14
VoiceThread: Multimedia Projects Made Simple
October 19
Teaching with Images and Media
October 28
Teaching Portfolios
November 5
Overcoming Teaching Anxiety
November 9
Student Learning Outcomes
November 10
Creating a Dynamic Syllabus
November 11
Lesson Planning
November 12
Creating Effective Assignments
November 13
For details and to register, go to http://cfe.unc.edu/events.html.
For more information about other Center activities and services, go to http://cfe.unc.edu/.
OASIS WORKSHOPS
The College of Arts and Sciences' OASIS group offers individual, one-on-one consultations as well as workshops on a variety of technical topics. For more information on the OASIS training services and the workshops listed below and to register, go to http://oasis.unc.edu/training/.
Beginning Plone - Introduction to Content
October 13
Intermediate Plone - Collections & Forms
October 13
Plone for Administrators - Portlets, Rules, Groups & Users
October 13
Calendar, Tasks and other Productivity Technologies
October 15
Intro to Mac OS X Troubleshooting
October 15
Create Simple Personal Websites
October 16
Intermediate Photoshop
October 20
Create Simple Websites: Faculty
October 20
Intro to Mac OS X Applications
October 22
ITS LEARNIT WORKSHOPS
There are still spaces available in the following LearnIT workshops. To read a workshop description or to register for any of these workshops, go to http://learnit.unc.edu/workshops. For links to other campus training opportunities, go to the LearnIT website.
If multiple dates are listed, the workshop is offered on each of those dates.
MPI for Parallel Computing
October 13
Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security on the Internet (co-sponsored with the Center for Faculty Excellence)
October 15
ConsiderIT: Spanish 101 Course Redesign: Moving From Face-to-Face to Hybrid to Online (co-sponsored with the Center for Faculty Excellence)
October 19
Blackboard8: Assignment Tool, Test and Quizzes
October 20
Introduction to Blackboard Grade Center
October 22
October 28
Introduction to Topsail, a Research Computing Server
October 26
Games4Learning: Digital Storytelling and Collaboration Skills (co-sponsored with the Center for Faculty Excellence)
October 27
Scientific Computing: Introduction to Scientific Computing
October 29
Matlab: Introduction
November 5
Scientific Computing: Gaussian and GaussView
November 5
Professional Reputation Management (co-sponsored with the Center for Faculty Excellence)
November 6
Linux: Introduction
November 10
Scientific Computing: Introduction to Computational Chemistry
November 12
Games4Learning Discussion: Games as an Interactive Classroom Technique
November 18
Introduction to Emerald, a Research Computing Server
December 1
Perl: Getting Started December 7
2009 CITATIONS PUBLICATION SCHEDULE
January 9 & 23
February 6 & 20
March 6 & 20
April 3 & 17
May 8 & 22
June 5 & 19
July 10 & 24
August 7 & 21
September 11 & 25
October 9 & 23
November 6 & 20
December 4 & 18
CITations welcomes announcements from all UNC-Chapel Hill campus organizations involved in instructional and research technology. To have an announcement considered for publication in CITations, send email to Carolyn Kotlas, kotlas@email.unc.edu, or call 962-9287. The deadline for submissions is 11:00 a.m. the day before the publication date.
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