IT News for April 2010
Reinhold
Steinbeck, learning designer and
international educational development
specialist from Stanford University,
will open this year's University of
Delaware Summer Faculty Institute on
June 1.
In his keynote address, “Design Thinking as a Learning Process: Building Innovation Capacity and Creative Competence within a Global Context,†Steinbeck will use an interactive approach to explain “design thinkingâ€â€”a user-centered and team-based approach for developing innovative solutions within a global context. Design thinking is a creative process based around sharing ideas: It is a protocol that combines empathy, creativity, and rationality for solving problems and discovering new opportunities in a practical and creative way. Because judgment is absent early in the process, the fear of failure is diminished. This method promotes maximum input and participation in later phases of the process.
Related IT Organization : ATS
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Information
Technologies has announced that
University of Delaware faculty and
staff can now create and manage their
own guest accounts in Sakai@UD. The
Sakai@UD Guest Management System is a
password-protected Web service intended
to let faculty and staff give access to
their Sakai@UD sites to non-University
of Delaware people.
This initiative will be useful in allowing the University of Delaware community to engage more actively with teachers, researchers, students, and experts from all over the world.
Related IT Organization : CS&S
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Dick
Sacher, associate director of IT-Client
Support and Services at the University
of Delaware, recently received a
prestigious award from his peers.
At the March 30 statewide Delaware GIS 2010 conference, Sacher received the 2010 Vern Svatos Geographic Community Service Award from the Delaware Geographic Data Committee (DGDC). Sacher received the award, voted on by members of Delaware's geographic data community, for outstanding service and consistent commitment to the state's geographic community.
Related IT Organization : CS&S
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Faculty,
staff, and students are invited to
participate in the selection of a new
clicker system to be implemented for
the fall 2010 semester. Details of the
product evaluations, coordinated by IT
Academic Technology Services (IT-ATS),
are available at its Web site.
In keeping with EDUCAUSE's recommended practice, the University of Delaware standardized its support of clickers to a single product in 2006—InterWrite PRS. The product line was purchased by eInstruction in 2008 and will be discontinued after fall 2010. This situation presents an opportunity to find the best clicker technology to meet our faculty's requirements.
Related IT Organization : ATS
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The
latest edition of the University of
Delaware Information Technologies
Activity Report is now available,
covering our activities from February 1
to March 31, 2010. Highlights include
discussion of WordPress MU, Google Apps
@UDel.edu, the timeline for business
software upgrades, and a variety of
other news of interest to faculty and
staff.
The full report is available online in both HTML and PDF formats.
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The
University of Delaware Library and UD
Information Technologies are seeking
nominations from instructors for
student multimedia projects to include
in the Student Multimedia Showcase to
be held from 3-4:30 p.m., Monday, May
17, in the Class of 1941 Lecture Room
of the Morris Library.
Instructors are encouraged to nominate the best multimedia projects created by students in their classes during the 2009/2010 academic year. The multimedia projects can be on any subject, and should combine two or more of the following: video files, text, audio, still images, or animation.
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