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The
Learning Management System Committee, a
33-member University-wide committee
that is helping to shape the use of
Sakai at UD, held its spring luncheon
meeting March 26 in the Trabant
University Center.
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Registration
for the 2009 Summer Faculty
Institute--the premier event for
faculty who want an in-depth, hands-on
opportunity to work on their technical
skills and address their classroom and
online instruction needs--is open until
midnight Wednesday, April 15.
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University
of Delaware Information Technologies
(IT) is alerting computer users to a
new worm that will become active
Wednesday, April 1. This
worm--“Conficker.Câ€--affects
Microsoft Windows computers. If your
Windows computer's operating system and
anti-virus software are up-to-date,
your computer is probably not infected.
However, IT suggests that all Windows
computers be tested for this worm.
Apple MacIntosh and Linux computers are
not affected.
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Carl
Jacobson has been named University of
Delaware vice president for Information
Technologies and chief information
officer (CIO), it was announced
Thursday by UD Executive Vice President
Scott Douglass. Jacobson, who has
served as interim vice president since
the retirement of Susan Foster in June,
2008, was named to the position of vice
president following a national search.
"Since joining Information
Technologies, Carl Jacobson has played
a key role in keeping the University of
Delaware in the forefront of the field.
As the University pursues its Path to
ProminenceTM, I am confident he will
continue to provide the leadership
necessary to keep UD on the leading
edge in these challenging times,"
Douglass said.
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The
University of Delaware will host the
Lilly-East Conference for faculty
across East Coast institutions in
support of excellence in learning and
teaching Thursday and Friday, April
16-17, in Clayton Hall. The conference,
titled “Millennial
Learning: Teaching in the 21st
Century,†will highlight
how to design, facilitate, and assess
learning environments that support
student learning in this
century.
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To
improve the security of the University
of Delaware's information resources, UD
now requires that all desktop or
palmtop e-mail software use an
SSL-encrypted connection to our inbound
mail server.
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University
of Delaware Information Technologies
has announced that faculty and staff
can now create
“projectâ€
sites on Sakai@UD--the UD-supported
learning management system.
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To
improve the security of the University
of Delaware's information resources, UD
now requires all desktop or palmtop
e-mail software use an SSL-encrypted
connection to its inbound mail server.
Without this encryption turned on,
users are potentially exposing their
UDelNet password to
eavesdroppers.
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On
Feb. 6, Ruckus Networks surprised
students and staff at colleges and
universities across the United States
by shutting down. The University of
Delaware had been promoting Ruckus as
one of the ways UD students could
download music legally.
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Recently,
McAfee VirusScan 8.0 for Windows XP
stopped issuing automatic updates,
thereby exposing Windows XP computers
and the information stored on them to
damage by a host of viruses. All XP
systems on UDelNet must be upgraded to
McAfee VirusScan 8.5 as soon as
possible.
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Havidán
RodrÃguez, University of
Delaware vice provost for academic
affairs, welcomed more than 120
participants to the 16th annual UD
Winter Faculty Institute on Jan. 6.
Corresponding to the theme of the
month-long program, "The Ecosystem of
Learning at the University of
Delaware," the day's events
demonstrated how teaching tools and
learning practices are rich, diverse
and highly interconnected.
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Havidán
RodrÃguez, University of
Delaware vice provost for academic
affairs and international programs,
through a letter in his absence, set
the tone for the second Learning
Management System (LMS) Committee
Winter Retreat held Jan. 21 at the
Courtyard Newark-University of
Delaware.
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