IT News for January 2010
Beginning
January 20, all students can choose to
use an exciting new service: Google
Apps @UDel.edu. Using their UDelNet IDs
(UD e-mail address), students can now
use Gmail for their University e-mail
and can also use the entire Google Apps
for Education software suite. Students
will be able to use Gmail, Google
Calendar, Google Docs, Google Sites,
and Google Talk. Gmail offers more
storage capacity and advanced features;
the rest of the Google Apps suite
enables students to work more
productively.
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IT
invites faculty to attend brown bag
seminars in which they can share ideas
about using Sakai@UD with each other
and with IT staff. The seminars will be
January 22 and 29, noon to 1:00 p.m.,
in 010 Smith Hall.
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Tom Apple, University of Delaware
provost, welcomed over 80
participants to the kick-off event of
the Winter Faculty Institute on Jan.
5.
“UD’s path to prominence
begins with the excellence of our
faculty, which includes professional
development such as today’s.
I’m thrilled to see this
turnout—it is heartening to see
the dedication of our faculty,”
Apple said.
Faculty and others joined colleagues
to learn about course redesign and
e-portfolios at the opening day of
the month-long teaching and
technology institute. After morning
presentations, participants were
invited to join their peers at
hands-on workshops, which focused on
the morning’s topics.
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IT reminds all departments to follow UD administrative policy 5-6 when disposing of computers and hard drives. IT has posted a Web page that explains what action steps that policy requires. (Link)
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From
Oct. 23 through Nov. 13, the University
of Delaware hosted an international
show of “Outsider
Art†in the Second Life
virtual community. Artists from the
United Kingdom, France, Australia,
Denmark and the United States
contributed 19 works that were
displayed throughout the UD Second Life
islands. Several of the innovative
pieces on display included interactive
options, allowing Second Life avatars
to become part of the artwork. Lance
Winn, associate professor of art,
opened the show with an address
delivered simultaneously in Smith Hall
and online in Second Life.
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