ITG Staff – 2009-Feb17

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.

ITS Council – 2009-Feb04

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.