The Indiana University Faculty Podcasting Initiative will support more than 60 innovative faculty members as they explore the potential of podcasting in higher education and student learning. Supported by Apple and AT&T with equipment and software -- and with the guidance of the IU centers for teaching and learning -- faculty projects will commence in the fall semester of 2008.
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IU digital artist Margaret Dolinsky is the 2008 Outstanding Educator in Science, Technology, and Engineering. Presented by the Women and Hi Tech organization, the award acknowledges the tremendous impact educators have on their students and the role they play in creating opportunities for growth and development. Dolinsky holds a dual appointment as an assistant professor in the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts at Indiana University Bloomington and as a research scientist in the IU Advanced Visualization Lab (AVL).
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University Information Technology Services at IU welcomes Barbara Christe as a new faculty fellow in the development of its collaboration and learning environment, Oncourse CL. Christe, a faculty member at IUPUI since 1998, is associate professor and program director of Biomedical Engineering Technology at the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology. Christe will create a repository of good practices for using Oncourse CL.
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As the nation's K-12 schools integrate technology into their classrooms, many face tough decisions in allocating these resources because of limited technology budgets. For a growing number of Indiana schools, free open-source software presents one solution.
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John Gosney has been appointed as faculty liaison for the Teaching and Learning Information Technology division of University Information Technology Services (UITS). As faculty liaison within UITS' Academic and Faculty Services, Gosney will work with faculty from across Indiana University to explore and advocate the best use of technology to enhance teaching and learning. Gosney comes to his new position having served since 2000 as director of information technology for the IU School of Dentistry.
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The recent snow storm may have kept students from attending classes, but Indiana University's IT support infrastructure helped keep students, staff and faculty connected when they could not make the drive to campus. Use of Oncourse CL, the university's online course management system, dominated much of the university community's online activities. On Tuesday, Feb. 13, Oncourse CL received nearly 10.5 million hits—up more than 4 percent from the previous week. What's more, the community downloaded more than 2,700 software packages via IUware on Feb. 13—more than any other day that week. Some staff and faculty kept their scheduled meetings and teleconferenced via a home phone or cell, or responded to requests via email.
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