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MIIS Team Attends and Presents at POD Conference

Nov 3

Posted by Lynn McDonald in Achievements, Innovation, Teaching and Learning Collaborative | 1 Comment

The 2009 Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD), recently held their annual conference in Houston, TX.  The theme of the conference, Welcoming Change: Generations & Regeneration was particularly relevant to the MIIS team who attended and presented.

Sarah Springer, Bob Cole, Peter Shaw, Leslie Buckalew, Amy McGill and Lynn McDonald attended the conference.  Bob and Peter presented session titled; Professional Conversations: An Open Source Framework for Individuals and Colleagues and Amy, Leslie and Lynn presented a session titled; Organizational Transformation: Shaping a Culture of Possibility.  These interactive sessions were well received creating a buzz around the conference that there is some great stuff happening in Monterey.

Some main themes of the conference were: understanding millennial students, using visuals as a method for development, strategies for creativity in the classroom, sustainability on campus, learning how to really listen/understand, learner centered teaching, cross-departmental teams and finding purpose and meaning in Higher Education.

Lynn, Amy and Leslie at their Presentation

Lynn, Amy and Leslie after their presentation

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MIIS@work has a new home!

Oct 29

Posted by Amy McGill in Teaching and Learning Collaborative | No Comments

MIIS@work is pleased to join the MIIS blogging community. Thanks to Kristen Byers and Bob Cole for moving us over to this new platform, where we can interact with a vibrant and rapidly growing community of bloggers at MIIS.

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Personalizing the Web: A Sandbox Summary

Oct 27

Posted by Lynn McDonald in Communications, Teaching and Learning Collaborative | 1 Comment

Last Friday, some of the staff gathered at the TLC for a Friday sandbox session on personalizing the web. This was a rich conversation about using tools such as nevibes or igoogle to organize your information streams. There is just too much information out there on the web – using tools to organize it and put it in one place will save us time. For more information about how sites like these work or for a simple explanation of RSS Feeds, check out this video.

To help start the process, Kristen Byers put together a public netvibes page filled with the RSS feeds/widgets related to MIIS. If you sign up for a free netvibes account, you can simply click the share button on the MIIS widgets and directly add them to your netvibes page – no mess, no stress. Creating your own page will allow you to keep up to date on the happenings at MIIS as well as your favorite non-MIIS sites. One place for all your web needs. You can even add goldfish or cartoons! The other nice thing is that you can log into this site from any computer.

A snapshot of Lynn's Netvibes page

A snapshot of Lynn's Netvibes page

Stay tuned for more Friday Sandbox sessions to keep playing and experimenting with technology & innovation. The DMC is also offering a number of interactive workshops for learning digital media and communication tools. As always, feel free to stop by Kade anytime for development conversations and exploration of possibilities.

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TLC Friday Sandbox Returns

Oct 14

Posted by Lynn McDonald in Events, Innovation, Teaching and Learning Collaborative | No Comments

Please join the folks at the TLC for a Friday Sandbox session on the new blogging community.  The Friday Sandbox started last year as a time/space where staff could get together and play with new technologies.  All skill levels are welcome and the goal is to experiment, have fun, and learn a thing or two.  The TLC hopes to have Sandbox sessions most Fridays and are looking for suggestions for new topics/themes.

In general, the TLC is always looking to help with idea development and innovation of all kinds.  Feel free to stop by Kade – they love visitors and sometimes  even have treats!

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What's happening in Kade?

Aug 21

Posted by Lynn McDonald in Innovation, News, Students, Teaching and Learning Collaborative | 1 Comment

There have been many changes on campus this summer and Kade is no exception.  In the beginning of the summer, IT moved the printer, scanner and PC computers out of Kade.  Student printing is available in three locations: Pacific Lab (CF 442), Coleman library and Lab & Media Services (Morse A 101).

Kade hours will be posted at the beginning of the semester.

Kade is the exclusive hub for the Teaching and Learning Collaborative (TLC).  Staff who are a part of the TLC are:

  • Bob Cole
  • Sarah Springer
  • Kristen Byers
  • Lynn McDonald

Activities of the TLC staff:

  • Innovation: Pedagogical & organizational
  • Digital & New Media Development
  • Idea Development

We love visitors to Kade who are interested in exploring, learning and sharing.

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Academic Technology Resource Fair!

Aug 12

Posted by Bob Cole in Events, Information Technology, Library, Teaching and Learning Collaborative | No Comments

Come one, come all!!

Resource Trade Fair

Students, faculty & staff cordially invited to a collaborative resource and information fair during orientation week.  Representatives from campus technology departments will be on hand to answer questions and help point you in the right direction.

Tuesday, August 25th, 1-4pm in the Samson Center Courtyard.

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Get Connected!

Aug 11

Posted by Bob Cole in Information Technology, Policies and Procedures, Teaching and Learning Collaborative | No Comments

Get Connected

Records, IT, and TLC Departments invite faculty and staff who directly support academic departments to attend one of four “Getting Connected” sessions for a detailed update on academic technology resources, tools, and processes including: Bannerweb, Exchange E-mail, and Moodle.

All sessions will be held in B104, Morse Lecture Hall.

Weds 8/19  10-11:30am
Weds 8/19  2-3:30pm
Thurs 8/20  10-11:30am
Fri      8/21  10-11:30am

RSVP for one of the four sessions by following this scheduling poll: http://www.doodle.com/9u6nrvwy5gud6vtp

Ten Percent

Aug 6

Posted by Amy McGill in Achievements, Information Technology, Teaching and Learning Collaborative | 1 Comment

Some of you who subscribe to the MIIS Yammer updates may have noticed that many recent posts are tagged “#10percent.” Here’s why:

This summer, a group of IT and TLC staff decided to take responsibility for their own professional development by adopting the “10 percent rule.” We made a commitment to each other: that we would each devote 10% of our time to learning new things that would help us do our jobs better. We agreed to post information about what we were learning to Yammer, so that other colleagues could benefit from our discoveries and be generally more aware of the kinds of things we are working on.

In the last three weeks, a lot of learning has been going on! There are 49 Yammer posts with the #10percent tag. Here’s a sample of what your colleagues have been learning:

Bob Cole has been experimenting with new tools for a MIIS blogging community. Check out the results. He also learned how to deeplink into a YouTube video, so that you can get directly to the portion of a video you want to reference.

Sarah Springer has been broadening her knowledge of emerging learning technologies through the Educause Learning Initiative’s “Seven Things You Should know About…” series.

Amy McGill learned how to build more engaging presentations by reading Presentation Zen, and is now following the associated web site.

Greg Harris discovered an interesting new tool called Flow that allows people to track time spent on digital projects. He’s also repurposed one of our older computers to run Ubunto 9.04 (linux).

Wen Lu has been doing a lot of reading on wireless networking, including investigation of Mac-specific issues, since we have more and more Macs appearing on campus.

Trinidad Gomez has been using a Deke McClelland One-on-One book to learn Photoshop. He also posted about a review of Shopcraft as Soulcraft, which prompted Amy McGill to take a look at this book as a possible “unbook club” choice.

Kristen Byers discovered dry-erase paint (after Bob Cole discovered blackboard paint). Check out her door! Kristen is also setting an ambitious learning agenda with 101 goals in 1001 days.

When is your Day Zero?  If you would like to join this initiative, just start learning, and sharing what you learn on Yammer.


Guidelines for Appropriate Use of All Campus Electronic Mail Messages

Jul 14

Posted by Amy McGill in Information Technology, Policies and Procedures, Teaching and Learning Collaborative, Uncategorized | No Comments

The following guidelines are adapted from Middlebury’s policy on the use of college email.  We think they make sense for us as well, and would like to ask that all members of the community to follow them.

1. Messages must relate directly to College business. Announcements of non-college events should be handled through other channels.

2. E-mail messages should be avoided for College events already listed on-line or in publications, unless there is significant supplemental information or last-minute changes in location or time.

Currently, everyone has the ability to send an all faculty or all staff message, and it would be wonderful if everyone could voluntarily use these guidelines so that we don’t have to restrict access.

When the students return in the fall, we will need to adopt similar guidelines for messages to all students, and student messages to faculty and staff.

We understand that there is a need for a place to post “classifieds” and other messages of a more personal nature, and we are working on a solution.

Thanks for your patience!

Running-One-MIIS: Technology

Jul 14

Posted by Amy McGill in Information Technology, M2 Integration News, Teaching and Learning Collaborative | No Comments

Find slides from today’s Running-One-MIIS presentation here.