We will be hosting a regional BlackBoard Conference Thursday and Friday mostly geared toward system administration and what will be coming in Bb 9.0. Thursday night will be a socialization get together to kick the conference off at Lazlos.
Bruce will be attending the classroom advisory board to brief them regarding classroom technology needs.
IS staff meeting and project updates will be tomorrow morning.
Leona will be coming on full time to help with BlackBoard support through the end of the fiscal year. A grad student has also been requested to help with support.
Instructional Technology Advisory Committee discussing the BlackBoard contract negotions for the upcoming years. Bruce is also insterested in creating a user survey for instructional technology services. Utilize campus services for creating the survey. Bruce will encourage the committee to think about how to reach all the constituents including students and staff.
Andrew reported that he attended a Journalism and EE&O meeting that they have interest in using Breeze to decrease travel costs and administrative expenses.
Walt attended a Postgres database administration in North Carolina. He gained valuable information from the session.
Evaluation information will be distributed starting February 16. There will be a supervisor evaluation to be distributed at a separate time. The response will be anonymously distributed to the next level supervisor for use in the person’s current evaluation. Final deadline for all to be completed is May 4.
Asset list has been distributed, a review of items on the list will be established shortly. Electronic feedback will be requested. Instructions to be included.
Multiple responses to Pam’s request regrading Budget scenarios were received. Many good ideas were gleaned and very helpful.
Pam passed around a document describing 2008 top articles from Educause as well as Business week. If there is more interest, she requested that you contact the office for additional information.
Greg described server maintenance engagement regarding food allergy program.
Claudette mentioned potential of savings regarding FedEx versus UPS.
Tom Hansen requested Interior Design students as a project to determine a redesign of the computer shop. He will be moving forward to take action and develop a potential budget.
Todd has interest in recording the IS staff meeting as a proof of concept using Camtasia Relay.
Bruce reported that Kevin Borgeson has accepted a position with BlackBoard Inc. Clickers will be used at the IS meeting to gather feedback.
Norm reported that Jason L. in the labs will be deploying sub-notebooks for check-out. Students have requested that laptops be checked out in Harper residence hall. Jeff is working on a large spreadsheet to break down per room expenses, maintenance, etc. Instructional Facilities Design is beginning a large installation of cameras and additional equipment in the Barkley center. Primary use is mostly capture, but some live observation will take place. Another project mentioned was an overhaul of Facilities conference areas.
Patrick reported that the Sophos installer for mac is currently being worked on to resolve some issues.
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The Values
To foster a work environment that will promote and support a meaningful and successful experience of our vision, we adhere to the following values:
Practice Authentic Leadership
Authentic leadership is consistently listening, speaking and acting from a place of honest self awareness. The more this is practiced, the deeper the awareness becomes and the more authentic our actions. This encourages us to act with integrity, which the dictionary defines as “An unreduced or unbroken completeness or totality”, and “Moral soundness”. Authentic leadership calls us to consider our actions within the context of our vision and the mission of the University of Nebraska, and the best interests of our customers.
Be Innovative
Being innovative allows us to come up with creative solutions to challenges we are presented with. It fosters the creative process and reinforces a “can do” attitude.
Have Courage
It takes courage for anyone to step out of their familiar comfort zone to try something new, or to challenge the status quo with a better alternative. This quality of spirit is encouraged in our work environment and encourages risk taking.
Share
If we share what we do with one another, with our customers and with anyone else who may be interested, then we quickly break down the illusion of separation and foster a “we’re all in this together” attitude and quickly realize that helping one another is helping ourselves as well.
We recognize that living these values will bring about a culture in our workplace that will foster:
Being responsible and taking on responsibility
A safe environment for taking risks to try new things
A “can do” attitude
Finding joy in what we do
Giving customer service a priority in all we do
Recognizing the value of everything we do within the context
of our vision
I’ve seen some really interesting demos of the Microsoft Photosynth technology. This highly interesting technology utilizes photo mobbing technology to define a place in a multidimensional way with multiple photos taken from various angles of the same place. I do have to say that I’m less then impressed with the showing of ‘the moment’ of the inauguration.
CNN.com - Special Reports - The 44th President - The Moment.
My hope was that it would give you the idea that you were actually there. This unfortunately was not the case for me. How about you?
I’ve decided to move much of the personal stuff, and specifically family from this site to a different location. I will make this site all about my work, projects, and a potential evaluation criterion for my job performance. Probably very work related but relevant. The new site will be located over at thejensencrew.com. As of this writing, the site isn’t yet propagated though all of the servers in the world. I would guess it should be available in a couple of days. My hope is to refer to other project sites that I work on and report at UNL, but also sprinkle in personal observations, photos, and interests.
So what does this mean for you (the 1 or 2 people that actually read this), well you’ll need to change your bookmarks and feeds, I’ll have a link to it on the side of this site. I also hope to add some reflecti0ns by the other family members, if they are interested. This should also give Amy the real creative one in the family a better place to post as well. Happy reading.
Since my hopes of purchasing Becky Higgins Project 365 kit have been dashed (sold out before I got a chance to get one). I’ve decided to just keep a journal and attempt a photo a day to show ‘a day in my life’ for one whole year. Whether or not I keep it up remains to be seen, but twelve days have passed and I’m right on schedule. Of course there are the basement updates, but the two favorite photos are (not shown) Ryan and I reading magazines in the tub and this one, my current weakness. It all started as a slow snacking on York Peppermint Patties at school, just one or two per week on my way through the lounge to a burning desire to actually visit the lounge IN HOPES that there would be a bag and then to actually receiving them by the carton from Sam’s Club as a New Year’s “gift”. I know it sounds strange, but I’ve deemed them “the best food on the planet!” I don’t eat toast and don’t drink coffee but thought this picture of my morning “fix” on the counter should definitely define one day in my life. Bet you can’t wait to see what other quirky photos show up!
One of my favorite things to do is tie anything and everything to technology. I found this cool app for the 3G that will map your workout routes and put them in a profile on a website. The coolest thing is that the app ties together with other technologies (true web2.0). For example:
Now, do I want everyone to know where I walk and when, probably not, but restricting to friends via social tools such as facebook, and even potentially having contests, I can see some benefit. Either way I think it’s quite fun.
The U will be closing down tomorrow, I’m quite excited for some down time. I’ve been thinking of how much stuff happened this year. As the saying goes time flies, but in my case it seems like this has been a very long year. Not good or bad, just long. I’m inspired by thebroekerbunch, great posts and I loved their Christmas card that goes quite well with the theme of their blog!
We celebrated Trevor’s 11th birthday this week, and well, we’re already to Christmas. We had our annual Jensen Boelus Christmas yesterday as well.We had a lot of fun, Russ always puts on a great party. We missed all the loved ones that were not with us, though in spirit they were alive and well. We won’t forget the enjoyable memories we’ve had with everyone through the years. Russ was playing an old video that someone had taken of one of the Christmas’ past.
How could I forget the anxious window peers. Ryan and Marcus, my nephew are discussing whether or not Santa was going to arrive soon.
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