Overview:ITS will be upgrading the firmware on network switches across campus on July 25, 2013 from 5:00-5:30am.
Impact: All campus phones, wired and wireless network access will be affected in the building specified. Time Frame: This maintenance will take place starting at 05:00AM each day and should last no longer than 30 minutes. 7/25/2013: For further questions, please feel free to contact the ITS Help Desk at x7111. Thank you for your patience as we work to improve your information technology resources. |
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ITS ALERTS: Network switch maintenance affecting campus network and phones on July 25, 2013 from 5:00-5:30am
By jgattuso on July 24, 2013ITSALERTS: Network and Phone System Outage
By mark hine on July 22, 2013Overview:
Beginning at approximately 1:17 PM today, July 22nd, 2013, Colgate’s network experienced a system-wide outage, affecting Internet access, local network access and phone access. Colgate’s phone system is network based and therefore affected by large scale network outages. The cause of this outage is still being investigated. More details will be provided as they become available. Services have been restored to the majority of users. If you continue to experience network or phone issues, and can do so, please call the ITS Helpline at 315.228.7111 and report it.
Impact:
This outage impacted most network and phone system users. Some phone connectivity issues remain. We are working diligently to restore phone service as soon as possible.
Time Frame:
The outage began at approximately 1:17 PM. As of 3:15PM service has been restored to most users.
Affected Users:
Users of Colgate’s network and phone system were adversely affected by this outage.
Things You Can Do:
In the event of an emergency, users are asked to use their cell phones to place urgent calls. For
More Information: Contact the ITS Helpline at itshelp@colgate.edu or call 315.228.7111.
Project Gutenburg – Free eBooks!
By mark hine on July 19, 2013Project Gutenberg offers over 42,000 free ebooks in ePub and kindle format that may be downloaded or read online. The works are proofread with the help of thousands of volunteers. No fee or registration is required.
Visit at: http://www.gutenberg.org/
Here is a list of notable classic works available:
Agamemnon (Aeschylus)
Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
Hippolytus/The Bacchae (Euripides)
Iliad (Homer)
Odyssey (Homer)
The Aeneid (Virgil)
Summa Theologica (Thomas Aquinas)
The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians (Budge)
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci – Complete (Da Vinci)
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Sir Isaac Newton)
Top 20 titles by viewership:
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (1547)
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1301)
- First on the Moon by Jeff Sutton (834)
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (791)
- Grimms’ Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (752)
- Alchemy: Ancient and Modern by H. Stanley Redgrove (663)
- The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (625)
- The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana (623)
- The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated by Dante Alighieri (606)
- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (552)
- Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (543)
- Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (540)
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (530)
- Space Viking by H. Beam Piper (518)
- How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict (512)
- The Art of War by Sunzi (487)
- Ulysses by James Joyce (441)
- The Spirit Land by Samuel B. Emmons (436)
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (435)
- Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville (434)
Ebooks: the format of the academic future
By mark hine on July 19, 2013Steven Schwartz explains why more universities should start publishing ebooks and how they benefit students, claiming “Ebooks, I believe, are the format of the academic future.”
Read more at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2012/mar/15/ebooks-academic-future-universities-steven-schwartz
edsocialmedia.com
By mark hine on July 19, 2013http://www.edsocialmedia.com/ is a portal site dedicated to exploring the role of social media in education. Through a series of bootcamps and events they explore policy, implementations, trials and tribulations, and how to measure and control the adverse aspects that come with social media.
Social Media in Education: The Power of Facebook
By mark hine on July 19, 2013Social Media in Education: The Power of Facebook is an amusing article from the perspective of a primary educator but still relevant to higher ed. Author Heather Wolpert-Gawron’s musings draw attention to the power of social media as an awareness, program and campaign tool.
Read more at: http://www.edutopia.org/social-media-education-examples-facebook
Preparing for Effective Adoption and Use of Ebooks in Education
By mark hine on July 19, 2013Preparing for Effective Adoption and Use of Ebooks in Education is a report commissioned by JISC that details the evolution of the ebook, the challenges of ebooks in academic contexts, the potential for ebook and various scenarios for the adoption and implementation of ebooks. Very thorough.
Read more at: http://observatory.jisc.ac.uk/docs/ebooks-in-education.pdf
Teaching, Learning, and Sharing: How Today’s Higher Education Faculty Use Social Media
By mark hine on July 19, 2013This thought provoking article reports on the pervasiveness of social media, surveying the various services, reporting on usage and highlighting the professional and curricular uses of social media. Sponsored by Pearson.
Using Flickr for Media Rich Classes
By mark hine on July 19, 2013Flickr is a photo aggregating and organizing service. Flickr also has the capability to support discussion groups. William Allen’s article, Using Flickr for Media Rich Classes, discusses how he leverages discussion groups around Art History content to encourage conversations about the works they study. He also discusses the various privacy options available and how Flickr is superior in this regard to learning management systems. Allen notes, “When teaching and learning revolve around images, the way that a learning management system buries images as a discussion develops hinders the image flow so crucial to image-based teaching.”
Read more at: http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/using-flickr-media-rich-classes
Seven Things You Should Know About eBooks
By mark hine on July 19, 2013A great overview regarding the use of eBooks in the curriculum from the Educause Learning Initiative. This article covers how implementing ebooks works, the downsides, and the implications for teaching and learning.
Read more at:http://www.educause.edu/library/resources/7-things-you-should-know-about-e-books