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11. Penn State WebMail2 scheduled to be decommissioned May 13

On Tuesday, May 13, Information Technology Services (ITS) will fully
decommission Penn State WebMail2, during the regularly scheduled maintenance
window from 5 to 7 a.m. After this time, WebMail2 will no longer be available
for use and will be fully replaced by the final version of Webmail software,
now simply referred to as "Penn State WebMail."

Read the full story on Live: http://live.psu.edu/story/30728/nw4

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12. ITS Help Desk to move to new location

This month, the ITS Help Desk located in 215 Computer Building at University
Park will move to a new location at 204 Wagner Building. The move is
scheduled to take place from May 15 to 16, with the new facility reopening
fully staffed on Monday, May 19 in Wagner. The Help Desk is one of the two
main consultation services ITS provides at the University Park campus,
offering phone, walk-in and electronic consultation to students, faculty and
staff on computer-related questions. The second Help Desk, located at 6

There's been a good discussion on the W3C Accessibility list about Captchas and accessibility with some great ideas.

Hi all,

I added a new forum to the LD Hub for Conferences and Events. I encourage you to add relevant info. here, and discuss any events posted that you have knowledge of ("Great conference!" or "They stink - here's why...").

Check out the first entry for a surprise!

Applying Emerging Technologies to Learning Design

June 2 – 4, 2008 :: Atlanta, GA

OVERVIEW

The domain of learning design is rapidly evolving to adapt to the needs of new students. Maintaining a perspective and competency with new and emerging systems provides a challenge for even the most seasoned learning designer.

See http://polleverywhere.com/

Alan Hecht, former eLSS from Abington, let me know about this. According to Alan:

It even lets you download a PPT slide that you can embed in a lecture slideshow and will update instantly as students vote.
I'm (Alan Hecht, this is) in talks with them on pricing and other issues. Yes, students have to pay SMS fees, but a faculty member can decide to use it for just one lecture and not have to have students buy keypads.

See what you think and post your thoughts here!

Campus Technology had an article about CourseCast, a free lecture capture system that grew out of a project at Carnegie Mellon - see http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/60310
Has anyone looked into this? (Also see Panopto and Socrates Project at http://www.panopto.com/)
I'm just wondering because we have more and more faculty interested in this kind of tool, and I've been surprised by the kind of interest students have been showing in accessing captured lectures.

I was not very clear today on my request to adopt a section of the LD Hub.

If you look on the left block, under Instructional Design Guides, you'll see a number of topics. These came from places like

http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/research/index.shtml

At ETS we've been moving them over to the hub for some time, in the hopes that they'll receive more use/exposure, and also in the hopes that as a community, we could own these topics and maintain/update them.

Thanks all who attended. We had a record number attending via Adobe Connect!

The URL for the session recording is https://breeze.psu.edu/p39943149/

It looks like the teams for the Needs Assessment are up and running. Please do feel free to edit the doc at

http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/learningdesign/FacPedSurvey

as needed at your team's discretion.