• Video Narratives – students use video to enhance a story, showcase a product, describe a concept, or generate a call to action.  Video Narratives incorporate photos, video, music, and voiceover.

  • CEL PROJECTS

    • Jessica Graybill GEOG323

    • Susan Woolley EDUC101A

    • Robert Nemes HIST200C

    • Alan Cooper FSEM190A

    • Aisha Musa FSEM157A

    • Jennifer Stob ARTS287

    • Margaret Maurer FSEM100A

  • Anna Rios-Rojas EDUC101B

  • Barbara Regenspan FSEM107A

  • Nady Abdal-Ghaffar MIST121A & B

  • Shaohua Guo CHIN303A

  • Catherine Herne PHYS105

  • Ryan Solomon WRIT215A

  • Ian Helfant REST121A & B

• Wikis – online classroom workspace where faculty and students can communicate and work on writing projects alone or in teams.

  • Roger Rowlett – Research use this semester

• Wikipedia Editing – Students used what they learned from course readings, class discussions and research to contribute to and improve Wikipedia content related to the course subject matter.

  • CEL PROJECTS

    • Bruce Selleck GEOL302

• iClickers – iClickers are hand-held devices that allow faculty and students to dynamically interact in real-time in the classroom.

  • Rebecca Metzler Physics 111A

  • Ken Belanger Biology 212

  • Jason Meyers Biol 102

  • Aisha Musa MIST216/RELG216

  • Beth Parks/Todd springer Physics 131

  • Todd springer Physics 111B

  • Michael Hay COSC 101 (2 sections)

  • Doug Johnson Psych 309

  • Bob Turner Econ 228

  • Catherine Herne Physics 105

• iPad Class Sets – The iPad Pilot projects are intended to encourage faculty to explore whether mobile tablet technology enhances or enables our ability to:

– Promote student engagement in the classroom, the lab, or in the field

– Assist small group collaboration in idea creation and sharing or information search, analysis, and visual representation

– Provide access to and manipulation of digital content

• Karen Harpp Geology 203, Environmental Geochemistry and Analysis

• Alicia Simmons Core 170S: Media Effects

• Mellon Digital Humanities Projects – Pilot projects designed to explore the strategic use of technology in the teaching of the humanities and humanistic social sciences.  The goal is to enable faculty to develop genuinely creative projects, increase the information available to faculty as they reflect on the best ways to use technology in teaching, and enable the lessons learned by individual faculty to be more easily shared.

  • Sasha Nakhimovsky, Alice Nakhimovsky, & Robert Garland – Social Network Analysis

    • NodeXL

  • Christopher Henke (SOCI453) & Elana Shever – Qualitative Data Analysis with MAXQDA software

    • Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) implementation

  • Janel Benson, Mary Simonson, Alicia Simmons, Meg Worley – Quantitative Literacy

    • PowerPoint & Easel.ly

  • John Crespi, Jessica Graybill, & Ian Helfant – Across the Global Curriculum: Integrating Foreign Languages,Core Components, and Area Studies through Digital Technologies

    • JCrespi – VoiceThread

    • IHelfant – Transparent Language

    • JGrabill – Video Narrative

• AppleTV Wireless Projection – piloting the wireless projection of computers, tablets and smartphones in the classroom.

  • Wenhua Shi – Little 208 – ARTS201 & FSEM163

  • Alicia Simmons Core 170S: Media Effects

• Virtual Computer Desktops – technology that enables a computer or tablet connected to the Colgate network to remotely connect to and control another computer running on a centralized server.

  • Chris Henke – SOCI453

  • Emilio Spadola – ANTH452

• VisLab Classes – using the real-time imagery of the Digistar system, students can experience detailed fly-bys of geographic regions around the globe and in the solar system.  Student-created animations and models add a valuable perspective across the curriculum.

  • Tony Aveni – SOAN/ASTR 230 – Astronomy in Culture

  • Tom Balonek – ASTR 101 & ASTR 312 – Solar System Astronomy & Astronomical Techniques

  • Jeff Bary – ASTR 165 – How Old is the Universe?

  • Adam Burnett – GEOG 131 – Environmental Geography

  • Marcus Edino – GEOG 314 – Population Issues & Analysis

  • Maureen Hays-Mitchell – Core: Peru

  • Krista Ingram – BIOL 485 – Animal Behaviors

  • Connie Soja – GEOL 115 – Evolution: Dinosaurs to Darwin

  • Naomi Rood – LATN 121 – Elementary Latin I

• Micro-Lectures – A microlecture is a short recorded audio or video presentation on a single, tightly defined topic. Used as a component of face-to-face teaching, these brief lectures can be interspersed with learning activities that reinforce lecture topics.

  • Beth Parks – Physics

  • Alice Nakhimovsky – Yiddish

  • Barbara Hoopes, Cat Cardelus, Ken Belanger – Biology

• eTextbooks – through the CourseSmart platform, all students in ECON151 are accessing their textbook with computers, tablets, or smartphones via Moodle or the CourseSmart app.

  • Nicole Simpson ECON151

• ePortfolios – the Education department continues its use of Google Sites to create ePortfolios for each graduate student.

  • Barbara Regenspan MAT candidates

• Blogs – online platform that among other things can decenter the classroom, bring course material into the world, bring the world into the classroom, enable for writing without grading, and spark face-to-face conversation.

  • Meg Worley – WRIT103 & WRIT340

  • Ryan Solomon – WRIT215 & WRIT 315

  • Mary Simonson – FMST350 & FSEM149

• Classroom Salon – an online platform from Carnegie Mellon enabling social reading by integrating context and interpretation.  Students read texts, annotate, and comment online, which faculty can review and use to kick-start or add to in-class discussions.

  • Ian Helfant – FSEM168

  • Alicia Simmons

  • Ryan Solomon

  • Bob McVaugh – FSEM105

• Panopto Video Recording – a lecture capture tool that allows for the recording of a class or student presentations that automatically get uploaded to Moodle.  Video, audio-only, and powerpoint presentations can all be integrated into the recording.

  • Ryan Solomon – WRIT215 & WRIT 315

• Prezi – a cloud-based presentation software and storytelling tool for presenting ideas on a virtual canvas, which allows users to zoom in and out of their presentation media.

  • Monica Facchini ITAL201

• Website Creation – students creating websites to communicate with public audiences

  • Eddie Watkins, Reyna Stagnaro and the greenhouse – BIOL328

  • Suzanne Spring WRIT242

• Language Recording – students recording Japanese pronunciation and submitting to professor for review.

  • Yukari Hirata – Moodle plug-in

• Video Conferencing – connecting with people off campus and around the world

  • John Palmer – Korean Language Learning with Adobe Connect

  • Keck Center – Yukari Hirata

  • PCON Conflict Lab – Dan Monk

• Video/Audio Student feedback

  • Susan Thomson – using the screen capturing program called Camtasia to record video and audio feedback on student papers.

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Overview:
On Tuesday, October 22nd, Apple released the latest version of their desktop operating system called  OS X (10.9) Mavericks. ITS strongly recommends that you do not install this upgrade on Colgate owned and managed computers at this time. To this end, we have restricted access to the upgrade on these machines.

We are currently testing and assessing  OS X (10.9) Mavericks to ensure compatibility with our existing applications and services. We hope to complete our evaluation quickly and release the upgrade to the community.

If you would like assist us in testing Apple’s latest operating system, please email itshelp@colgate.edu and supply the Colgate tag of the computer you will be using.  We will enable the download for the specified machine.  We would appreciate your feedback on the experience to help us understand the potential impacts on the broader community.  If you choose to test this new OS, please understand our ability to support it and troubleshoot any issues will be limited.  If you are unsure of your ability to support and troubleshoot, we recommend you do not participate in this test.

Impact:
Any new operating system may pose challenges with regard to application compatibility, driver availability and functional operation which may be new and unfamiliar.

Time Frame:
The Apple operating system update was published on October 22nd, 2013. Analysis by ITS is ongoing. ITS will offer the upgrade for Colgate owned computers that meet this new operating system’s requirements in the future.

Affected Users:
Apple desktop users.

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Services Restored:

Update (3:50PM):

The part has arrived from HP and we are installing it now.

Update (2:22PM):

ITS is still working on moving servers to unaffected hardware and will keep you posted of our progress. Once again we apologize for the inconvenience.

Update (12:43PM):

Our hardware vendor has identified the issue and is sending a part by courier ASAP. Our estimated arrival is approximately 4:30PM at the latest with a repair estimated shortly after arrival. In the meantime, ITS is working to migrate systems to unaffected hardware. We will keep you posted and we apologize for the inconvenience.

Update:

Our supporting hardware vendor is still troubleshooting our issue(s). At this time (11:58A) there is still no Estimated Time for Repair (ETR).

System Event:

An issue with hardware in our data center is causing slow access to multiple services.

Impact:

The following services may experience slow and/or intermittent access:

Bedeworks (Campus Calendar)
Bookstore & C-Store services
CAS (Portal, Lynda, Banner Web Authentication)
Crestron Monitoring Server
DHCP & DNS
EMS (Room Scheduling)
Ensemble
Famis
Firebug
Moodle
Nolij
One Card (Gatecard Services)
Picker & MDID
Printing
Portal / UPortal
VPN Services
Public Web Services
DegreeWorks

Time Frame: 

Issues began appearing early this morning. ITS has contacted HP for assistance and is working to resolve the issue.

Affected Users: 

All users may be affected by this issue both on and off campus.

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Overview:
Beginning at approximately 5:00 PM, tonight, Monday  October 14th 2013, Colgate’s Network administrators will be performing required maintenance on both the Campus Wireless network and Internet connection. During this maintenance window our Campus Wireless controllers will be updated to correct problems with wireless access points dropping network connections. Also beginning at 5:00pm the Campus Internet will be down to allow Time Warner, our current ISP, to make configuration changes that will allow the University to bring in a second 1Gbps Internet connection for campus use. This second 1Gbps connection, provided by Cogent Communications is expected to be in place by the end of this month. An ITS Alert will be sent out once a date has been confirmed with our secondary provider.

Impact

Expected wireless and Internet downtime will be 45 Minutes. Wired network connections to all local campus resources will not be affected.

Time Frame: 

Work on the Campus Wireless network and Internet connection will occur between the hours of 5:00 PM and 5:45 PM on Monday October 14^th 2013.

Affected Users: 

All users using accessing the Internet and/or campus wireless network will be affected.

Things you can do: 

Use the campus wired network to access all local campus resources during this service event.

More Information: Contact the ITS Helpline at itshelp@colgate.edu or call 315.228.7111.

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It’s been a long time since arcades occupied spaces in every town, since Pac Man and Space Invaders could be found in every pizza joint and bowling alley. Today, online is where it’s at. With nearly every video game now requiring some kind of Internet connection comes a larger attack surface for hackers. Kaspersky gives us some pointers for playing it safe.

http://blog.kaspersky.com/5-tips-to-safeguard-your-online-game-profile/

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