1. University Tools for Supporting Teaching Linda Jorn Bradley A. Cohen Office of Information Technology, Digital Media Center

2. Do you think students want technology-rich learning environments? Warm-up

3. Are you planning to use academic technology in your courses this semester?

4. Warm-up Have you taught using course management systems (e.g., Moodle, Blackboard, WebCT, Desire2Learn)?

5. Warm-up Facebook: Yes or no?

6. Warm-up IM or Email?

7. Warm-up Blog or Twitter?

8. Who are UMN Students? UMN Students and Technology

9. Agenda Introducing OIT and DMC Learning platform/MyU Centrally supported tools Changing landscape Support resources Governance and participation

10. Office of Information Technology Mission: serve as a catalyst for innovatively leveraging technology to advance and support extraordinary education, breakthrough research, and dynamic public engagement. OIT as catalyst & connector

11. Office of Information Technology team members: Replaced 1,750 wireless access points this year Support 33,000 phones Support 1,100+ servers Delivered 20,000,000 e-mails through security checks in May 2008 (blocking 53 million spam messages) Employed 704 employees (including students) in June 2008

12. OIT FY09 Directions In Partnership High availability design Customer support / education; active learning labs Mobile/global learning/wireless Research cyberinfrastructure Identity management Collaborative technologies/video; Google Apps Data center; data storage Disaster recovery Climate survey (recognition, job clarity, coaching/mentoring) Content management Business intelligence

13. “One OIT”

14. Digital Media Center Emerging Academic Technologies Evaluation and Research Usability Services Training Professional Development and Consultation

15. Tools Take a few minutes to meet your neighbors. Is anybody in your group planning to integrate technology into courses this fall? To what extent (i.e., is this course enhanced, hybrid/blended, or distance)? Is there a nice example of a learning activity or specific learning outcome that technology is intended to facilitate?

16. Learning Platform

18. Centrally Supported Tools for Teaching uTools http://dmc.umn.edu/technologies.shtml

19. Examples Moodle Glossary Moodle Wiki WebVista Grading Form WebVista Peer Review

24. Emerging Technologies Web 2.0 Delicious Social networks Mobile computing Immersive environments Google apps, youtube….

25. Academic Computing Support Resources Departmental experts Collegiate experts Central support experts (Inter) National organizations such as Sloan, ELI, EDUCAUSE –7 things you should know7 things you should know

26. Governance and Participation TEL Council (Contact Billie Wahlstrom, Vice Provost) Academic Technology Advisory Committee (Contact your collegiate representative) Senate Committee on Information Technology (Contact faculty senate office)

27. Thank You! http://dmc.umn.edu 5-8030 Linda Jorn Bradley A. Cohen Office of InformationTechnology Digital Media Center