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Archives 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 RedRover-Secure, Cornell's newest wireless network service, offers much greater degree of privacy (12/18/06) Oct. 8 a.m. computing services outage (10/4/06) Upgrade to Oracle Calendar has many wished-for features (8/16/06) Cornell's first IT Forum draws hundreds (7/20/06) Hear VP for IT Polley A. McClure's "Ten Lessons in Leadership" on July 5 (6/26/06) CIT now offers secure wireless service (6/2/06) "Leading geeks" is focus of first CU IT Forum, June 14 (5/26/06) New EZ-Backup client for Mac (3/7/06) Teaching with technology: How FIT fits into instruction (2/23/06) Clicking in class helps keep lecturers from appearing remote (Cornell Chronicle, 2/20/06) Linking faculty with technology, Lynx-wise (Cornell Chronicle, 1/23/06)
Oct. 8 a.m. computing services outage (posted 10/4/06)From 8 a.m. to noon on Sun., Oct. 8, many central computing services will be unavailable for brief (approx. 10 minutes), intermittent periods. Affected services include e-mail, Cornell University Library online services, Cornell's main web site (www.cornell.edu), CUinfo, uPortal.Cornell, Blackboard, the Electronic Directory, Cornell mailing lists, and many others. Please see the end of this message for the complete list. If you plan to use any of the affected services during this time, CIT recommends that you be prepared for interruptions in access. ResNet, RedRover, and building networks will continue to function, and you will be able to reach non-Cornell Internet services. Dial-up service (EZ-Remote and Express Lane) to the Internet also will be available. This outage is necessary so that CIT can connect a new network router. During the outage, concerns or questions can be directed to 255-9900. Thanks for your patience and understanding.
Upgrade to Oracle Calendar has many wished-for features (8/16/06)Earlier this summer, Oracle Calendar was upgraded to version 10.1.2 (10g Release 1). This upgrade has several much-demanded features, both for the web and desktop versions, and for the Windows versions of Oracle Calendar Sync for Palm and Pocket PC. Highlights for the web-based Oracle Calendar:
Highlights for the desktop Oracle Calendar:
See a list of all the improvements Upgrade your desktop Oracle Calendar or Windows Oracle Calendar Sync Cornell's first IT Forum draws hundreds (7/20/06)Several hundred information technology (IT) professionals from many colleges and divisions across Cornell attended the first-annual IT Forum on June 14, 2006. Designed to bring people throughout Cornell's IT community together, the forum, sponsored by the IT Managers Council (ITMC) Professional Development Committee, did just that. The two-part gathering started in the morning in Alice Statler Auditorium, when Cornell alumnus, award-winning author, and IT management consultant Paul Glen led a discussion titled "Leading Geeks: How to Manage and Lead People Who Deliver Technology." "There was a disconnect between business leadership books and what I was seeing on the ground," said Glen, Arts '88. "What I discovered was that leading geeks is just different from leading everybody else. "We need to rethink leadership. It's not one entity. It's about leading different kinds of people using different principles. Leadership that works one place cannot be assumed to work in a different place." Added Glen, "If you want to lead someone, start out by understanding him." An open networking session followed Glen's talk in G10 Biotech. All university IT staff were invited to meet with peers from other colleges or units, IT special interest groups, and more than 15 vendors. Organizers were pleased that both sessions were packed houses. "Everybody had a smile on his/her face," said Frank Strickland, director of computer support for the College of Arts and Science and ITMC committee member, during the networking session. "That's my measure of success." The vendors were pleased as well, said Strickland, because they had the chance to talk to so many people at Cornell. Among the vendors were Verizon Wireless, EMC2, and ServerWare Corporation, each of which helped sponsor the event. By 1 p.m., the Cornell Store's Technology Connection had given away 30 large prizes and 150 store-discount wooden nickels. Five hundred bottles of water and 32 sheet pizzas had also disappeared by 1 p.m. as crowds waited outside in long lines to get into Biotech. "I was thrilled to see such a strong turnout and pleased that there was so much enthusiasm surrounding the event," said Sunny Donenfeld, director of distributed services for the Office of Information Technology. "The birds of a feather sessions were well-attended, and several, such as the Women in IT at Cornell group, plan to meet regularly." "Will we do this next year?" asked Rich Jaenson, IT manager for the College of Art, Architecture, and Planning. "The turnout says yes, we can do this. We had a steady flow of people throughout the afternoon, and every hour, people left and came back with new people." "Leading geeks" is focus of first CU IT Forum, June 14Mark your calendars for June 14, when Cornell's first Information Technology Forum will feature award-winning author, IT management consultant, and Cornell alumnus Paul Glen, speaking on "Leading Geeks: How to Manage and Lead People Who Deliver Technology." An open networking session among IT staff from throughout the university, IT special interest groups, and vendors will follow. Prizes and refreshments will be offered. The forum is sponsored by the IT Managers Council.
CIT now offers secure wireless service (6/2/06)CIT is pleased to announce RedRover-Secure, our newest wireless service. RedRover-Secure offers a much greater degree of privacy for wireless connections by encrypting the wireless portions of data transmissions. RedRover-Secure is available everywhere that standard RedRover and RedRover-Guest are. A Cornell University NetID is needed to use RedRover-Secure. More information on RedRover-Secure, or standard RedRover or RedRover-Guest New EZ-Backup client for Mac (posted 3/7/06)Version 5.3.2 of EZ-Backup (TSM) for the Macintosh is now available for faculty and staff. CIT recommends upgrading or installing this version. If you are on a departmental network and don't manage your own system, please consult your technical support staff first. If you are installing, please be sure your computer is subscribed to the EZ-Backup service, and that you know your EZ-Backup node name and password. If you are upgrading, please make sure you know your EZ-Backup node name and password. Also, please be aware that:
Teaching with technology: How FIT fits into instructionJohn W. Sipple has been teaching "The Social and Political Context of American Education" (Education 271/571) for the past seven years. During that time, he has used a little bit of audio and video in his course, but it was always a hassle. Then his teaching assistant, Scott Campbell, heard about the Faculty Innovation in Teaching (FIT) program last year, and he urged Sipple to apply, saying, "Let's get the help and support we need to do what we've been trying to do all alone." Since 2002, FIT has awarded more than 75 projects to faculty who want to make innovative use of instructional technology. Sipple was awarded a project in 2005, titled "Public Education through the Lens of Popular Movies, Documentaries, and TV News: A catalyst for classroom discussion and debate." Sipple's first goal was to create a database filled with short (120-second) movie clips from popular movies, including both Hollywood caricatures of public school life and those that more accurately reflect the challenges facing children, communities, schools and policymakers. "We're using clips to help students operationalize the theories that we're trying to teach them. For example, socialization: Schools are socializing kids to certain gender and racial roles, and, in a fun way, movies show what we're trying to teach," said Sipple, an associate professor of education. "The FIT program enabled us to work out the legal issues involved in creating our database. Ideally, we want real-time movie access at a moment's notice, and we want to give students access to the database at any time, in or out of class, via Blackboard." Sipple's second goal involved creating a database filled with his students' prior school experiences. After each class, 12 to 14 students completed the assigned readings and then created personal, one-minute reflections based on their K-12 school experience using portable digital audio recorders. His teaching assistant then downloaded the recordings into a second database, which now has approximately 300 entries and can be queried by keyword and course concept. "My students learn pretty quickly that their experiences may not be typical," said Sipple. "With these audio clips, each student has the opportunity to hear from students whose experiences are quite different from their own. It's also helping them answer the question: Who wins, who loses and why?" Billie Jean Isbell, professor emeritus of anthropology and adjunct professor of law, also won a FIT project in 2005. Her project? To produce a web-based digital program titled "A Virtual Tour through Time and Space: Lessons from Vicos, Peru." Isbell's project has these goals: to give the history of the Cornell-Peru Project whereby Cornell leased a hacienda and introduced Green Revolution technologies that ultimately failed, and to compare those development efforts with contemporary participatory action research on biodiversity, water management and ecotourism. Three teaching modules are being developed on the latter. Isbell's virtual tour is being used this semester in three courses: Latin American Studies Program 320, "Perspective on Latin America"; Development Sociology 205, which focuses on globalization; and a new course, Anthropology 455, "Anthropology in the Real World." "My FIT project gave me the ability to design a web-based project that can be universally shared, in Spanish and in English," said Isbell. "I also worked with incredibly talented people from Cornell Information Technologies during this process." Faculty interested in the 2006 program are invited to submit a proposal by Apr. 1, 2006. Details and application materials are available online or from innovprojects@cornell.edu. An information session will be held Thurs., Mar. 2, 2006, from 3 to 5 p.m. in the ILR Conference Center, room 225. - By Leslie Intemann, Cornell Information Technologies
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