[ED-TECH] Blackboard 9.1 Sneak Peek - SIGN UP NOW

Ed-Tech list members,

During the summer of 2011 our version of Blackboard will be upgraded from 8 to 9.1. Version 9.1 has a number of new features.

On Tuesday, December 7th we will host a sneak peek to give you an idea of what Blackboard 9.1 looks like and what new features you will be able to use with your students. If you are available on Tuesday, December 7th, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, please sign up for and attend the Blackboard 9.1 Sneak Peek.

Sign up from the http://iacevents.org web site. Attend by coming to Learning Center, Room 184, on Tuesday, December 7th.

This is the first event leading up to the upgrade. I hope you will be able to attend this and many of the others during the spring semester.

Bill Vilberg
Instructional Advancement
Richter Library, Room 325
bill.vilberg@miami.edu
786-250-2255

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[ED-TECH] Information Fluency?

There is a conference in March in Orlando, at UCF, about Information Fluency?

What is Information Fluency?

Go to http://www.ce.ucf.edu/Conference-Services/IF/ for the conference information and a description of Information Fluency.

Bill Vilberg, bill.vilberg@miami.edu, 786-250-2255

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[ED-TECH] Wednesday Farmer's Market

Ed-Tech list members,

Some of you may not walk between the University Center and the Library all the time, so you may not have seen the wonderful fresh market that is now a Wednesday event. You can see a few pictures from today's market at http://vilby.posterous.com/wednesday-farmers-market or just stop by in person so you can see what a wonderful addition this is to UM.

Bill Vilberg, bill.vilberg@miami.edu, 786-250-2255

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[ED-TECH] Faculty focus groups [corrected times]

I had the times wrong. The morning session is 10:30-12:00 and the afternoon group is 3:00-4:30. These are the times on the form and are correct.

Bill Vilberg, 786-250-2255, http://vilberg.com

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From: "Britton, Scott" <brittons@miami.edu<mailto:brittons@miami.edu>>
Date: November 15, 2010 11:44:41 AM EST
To: "Vilberg, William R." <bill.vilberg@miami.edu<mailto:bill.vilberg@miami.edu>>
Subject: RE: Please sign up for the faculty focus groups

Bill,
You have the times wrong. The two times I have for the focus groups are 10:30am- Noon and 3:00pm-4:30pm. These are also the times sent in your first email.

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Scott Britton
Director of Access, Information and Research Services
University of Miami Libraries
Otto G. Richter Library
1300 Memorial Dr., Rm. 335
Coral Gables, FL 33124

Email: <mailto:brittons@miami.edu> brittons@miami.edu<mailto:brittons@miami.edu>
Phone: 305-284-6466
Fax: 305-284-4027


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Subject: [ED-TECH] Please sign up for the faculty focus groups

Ed-Tech list members,


Scott Britton and I are running some faculty focus groups this Friday. This will help us help you with teaching, learning, and technology. PLEASE SIGN UP. Go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/umfocusgroupapplication to fill out the application. We really need you to give us 90 minutes of your super valuable time so that we can better serve you.

The sessions will be this Friday, 11/19/2010, in the Richter Library. One group will meet in the morning, 9:30-12:00, and a separate group will meet in the afternoon, 2:30-4:00. If you could possible participate, I would really appreciate it. Go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/umfocusgroupapplication and fill out the application, please.

Thank you,
Bill Vilberg, bill.vilberg@miami.edu<mailto:bill.vilberg@miami.edu>, 786-250-2255

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[ED-TECH] Please sign up for the faculty focus groups

Ed-Tech list members,

Scott Britton and I are running some faculty focus groups this Friday. This will help us help you with teaching, learning, and technology. PLEASE SIGN UP. Go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/umfocusgroupapplication to fill out the application. We really need you to give us 90 minutes of your super valuable time so that we can better serve you.

The sessions will be this Friday, 11/19/2010, in the Richter Library. One group will meet in the morning, 9:30-12:00, and a separate group will meet in the afternoon, 2:30-4:00. If you could possible participate, I would really appreciate it. Go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/umfocusgroupapplication and fill out the application, please.

Thank you,
Bill Vilberg, bill.vilberg@miami.edu, 786-250-2255

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[ED-TECH] Link problems

Ed-Tech List Members,

Apparently something is wrong with my workflow. Sorry for the confusion. I am moving to plain text messages, I think.

The link to the MATLAB reservation form should be: http://iacevents.org

The link to the Focus Group application should be: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/umfocusgroupapplication

Bill Vilberg, bill.vilberg@miami.edu, 786-250-2255

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[ED-TECH] Focus Group application link

Ed-Tech list members,

The focus group application link in a previous message today doesn't work for some people.

This address correctly opens the application: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/umfocusgroupapplication

Bill

[ED-TECH] MATLAB Technical Sessions on Wed., Dec. 1, 2010

Ed-Tech List Members,

MATLAB is a "high-level language and interactive environment that enables you to perform computationally intensive tasks faster than with traditional programming languages." On Wednesday, December 1, 2010, we will be hosting two "Technical Computing with MATLAB" sessions, presented by an application engineer from MathWorks, the company that produces MATLAB. Please review the topics and see if this is of interest to you.

Data Analysis Using MATLAB
Richter Library, Information Literacy Lab, Room 344
8:45 am - 11:30 am

- Accessing data from many sources, including different file formats
- Visualizing and analyzing data
- Sharing results: Creating reports
- Building and deploying GUI-based applications
- Parallel Computing

Using MATLab for Bioimaging, Bioinformatics, and Systems Biology
Richter Library, Information Literacy Lab, Room 344
1:15 pm - 3:30 pm

Data Acquisition and Import

- Supported file types
- Importing data from Excel
- Connectivity to databases

Overview of Bioinformatics & Simbiology

- Sequence analysis
- Connectivity to different data sources
- Microarray and Mass Spectometry
- Advanced topics-Graph Theory, Gene Ontology, and Machine Learning
- Modeling and simulating biochemcial pathways
- Advanced analysis tasks, such as parameter estimation and sensitivity analysis

If you are interested in attending, please go to http://iacevents.org<http://iacevents.org/> and fill out the registration form for the MATLAB session(s) you wish to attend.

Bill Vilberg
Instructional Advancement
Richter Library, Room 325
bill.vilberg@miami.edu<mailto:bill.vilberg@miami.edu>
786-250-2255

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[ED-TECH] Need teachers at UM to participate in internal focus group

Ed-Tech list members,

PLEASE CONSIDER PARTICIPATING IN ONE OF THESE FOCUS GROUPS. I know how busy it is at the end of a semester and how valuable your time is. If we could get 90 minutes to gather information from you, that would be wonderful.

We are inviting teachers at UM to participate in one of two 90 minute focus groups on Friday, November 19th. We will be asking the participants how they teach, what works, what they would like to try, what types of support they could use, and similar things. One focus group will take place 10:30 am - 12:00 pm. The second focus group, with different participants, will be 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm. The focus groups will be held in Richter Library, room number to be announced. In order to have representative focus groups, we are asking teachers interested in participating to fill out a form that will help us determine the members of each group.

If you teach at the University of Miami and would like to be considered for one of these focus groups, please go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/umfocusgroupapplication and fill out the application form.

Bill Vilberg
Instructional Advancement
Richter Library, Room 325
bill.vilberg@miami.edu<mailto:bill.vilberg@miami.edu>
786-250-2255

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[ED-TECH] Sign up now: Digital Humanities Workshop

Ed-Tech list members,

The UM Center for the Humanities has scheduled a workshop on digital techniques including Keynote (the Macintosh presentation software), PowerPoint (the Windows presentation software), and ARTstor (a collection of images that you can use and study). This is a wonderful opportunity to get an introduction to these techniques in a pleasant environment. You will be exploring ways to use visual and multi-media resources to enhance your already excellent teaching.

The special workshop for faculty and teachers at UM will be offered twice, so pick the day that is most convenient for you. Both sessions will begin at 1:30 pm and run until 4:30 pm, with time for hands-on work with the various systems. The first workshop date is Tuesday, November 18, 2010. The same workshop will be repeated on Friday, December 3, 2010. I hope that one of these two dates will be convenient for you.

Digital Humanities Workshops: Keynote, PowerPoint, ARTstor. Discover useful techniques to incorporate visual resources and multi-media resources in presentations and teaching. November 18 or December 3, 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm. Richter Library, Faculty Exploratory, Room 305. Seating is limited. Register by contacting either humanities@miami.edu<mailto:humanities@miami.edu> or 305-284-1580.

While these workshops were arranged by the Center for the Humanities, they are open to all faculty and teachers at UM. The instructors will be Richter Library staff and faculty with extensive experience with Keynote, PowerPoint, and ARTstor. I hope you will be able to take part in this valuable opportunity.

Bill Vilberg, bill.vilberg@miami.edu<mailto:bill.vilberg@miami.edu>, 786-250-2255

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[ED-TECH] Make plans to attend "How are Students Learning?" on 11/10/2010 at 6:30 pm

Ed-Tech list members,

Richter Library is hosting a presentation on "How are Students Learning?" by two of our excellent Student Government officers. I encourage you to attend. I have seen an early version of this presentation and it was EXCELLENT. This is not about a neuroscience based view of student learning. It is about how today's students use computers and technology to learn.

The presentation will begin at 6:30 PM on Wednesday, November 10, 2010, in the large conference room on the 3rd floor of Richter Library. The presentation will be followed by a reception, giving us a chance to talk with each other and the presenters about this fascinating topic.

R.S.V.P. to richterevents@miami.edu<mailto:richterevents@miami.edu> or 305-284-3551

For the flyer, please go to http://library.miami.edu/about/news/event_studentslearning.html

I hope to see you there.

Bill Vilberg
Instructional Advancement
Richter Library, Room 325
bill.vilberg@miami.edu<mailto:bill.vilberg@miami.edu>
786-250-2255

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[ED-TECH] How students will access textbook lists from class schedule

Ed-Tech list members,

Sorry for so many e-mail about this. I realized I had not shown you the excellent work that Information Technology and the Follett bookstore have done to make the textbook lists available to students. I made a short video to show you how easy it will be for students to see the textbooks for various classes, once the data is submitted and entered by the bookstore. Please watch and listen to the video so you can be aware of this new capability. It is on the screencast.com<http://screencast.com> web site, at the following address.

http://screencast.com/t/D62kMRAH1

This video was created in the time it took to watch it, using Jing, a free service of Techsmith. I use their Camtasia program to make complex videos with cuts, zooms, callouts, and other fancy effects. Jing lets you record and publish short videos of 5 minutes or less with no editing, callouts, zooms, or other effects. Camtasia costs $180 (education price) while Jing is free. Go to http://www.techsmith.com/jing/ for more information.

Bill Vilberg, bill.vilberg@miami.edu<mailto:bill.vilberg@miami.edu>, 786-250-2255

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[ED-TECH] HEOA Textbooks Provision

Ed-Tech list members,

In my last message I encouraged you to turn in your spring textbook lists ASAP so that we can comply with the Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) of 2008. Some people asked me for details about the textbook provision, which took effect on July 1, 2010. I have posted it on the web, at http://www6.miami.edu/bb/HEOATextbookProvision.pdf so you can read the actual law. It details the information that students must have and that publishers/representatives must provide to you.

Bill Vilberg, bill.vilberg@miami.edu<mailto:bill.vilberg@miami.edu>, 786-250-2255

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[ED-TECH] Book lists & iclickers

Ed-Tech mailing list members,

The Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 specifies that as of July 1, 2010, students must be able to see the textbooks for their courses BEFORE THEY REGISTER. I think that means you should do your best to get your Spring textbook lists turned in ASAP. The deadline is no longer set by the bookstore in order to assure that texts are available when class begins. The deadline is now set by the federal government in order to provide adequate information to students as they register for classes each term.

The Act also specifies that publishers must provide you with costs and must unbundle their materials. You should be getting better information and prices to help you choose a textbook for your class.

Finally, if you are using the iClicker student response units, be sure to list that on your textbook form. That way the bookstore will have enough on hand when the semester starts. Last semester they ran out because some people had not indicated on their textbook request form that they were using the iClickers.

Thanks,
Bill Vilberg, bill.vilberg@miami.edu<mailto:bill.vilberg@miami.edu>, 786-250-2255

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