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.

ITG Staff – 2009-Feb20

The Vision

Integrate complex technologies in simple ways to improve the learning environment for our customers.

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