August 19, 2009

From ETS

Contents 1 Tom Irwin 1.1 Tom's duties 1.2 Tom's updates 1.3 How we can help Tom 1.4 The Big Fix 1.5 Campus Newsletters 1.6 Symposium

Tom Irwin

Tom's duties

Tom is responsible for visiting each campus once per semester

1. Visits with Chancellor, IT Directors
2. Tom has monthly Adobe Connect meeting with campus IT Directors
   • Tom invites people who have messaging for the campuses to attend and speak with the IT Directors
3. Functions as the liaison between the campuses and ITS
   • Works with the ITS Consultants
     1. Meets with the Consultants at their weekly meetings

Tom's updates

Tom attended our meeting this week

1. Each campus has listservs for faculty, staff, and students that is updated each semester
   • We need to find out who the owners of these listservs are
   • Campuses are willing to send our messages out to these lists
2. IT Directors are interested in anything directed at teaching and research

How we can help Tom

Coordinating campus trips

• ITS Roadshow

1. ITS Roadshow for the fall will be in DuBois
2. Can we coordinate this with the Digital Commons tailgate
3. Topics
   • Lynda.com
   • Systems Management at Penn State (The Big Fix)
   • Using blogs to do a campus newspaper
4. What people want to learn at the Roadshows
   • What TLT does is of more interest to the campuses than the other units of ITS
   • Tom sends out a survey to IT Directors to get topics

The Big Fix

Systems Management at Penn State

1. ITS service at all campuses
   • Supported by CLC
   • Needs to be promoted to IT Managers
2. A way to manage electricity and power in computers and labs hardware and software
3. Will be in place for Fall
4. Will be in place of CLM (not all campuses use CLM)

Campus Newsletters

Campuses are looking for advice on how to create their own newspapers

1. We are suggesting using the blogging platform as a means for campuses to create their own e-newsletters/papers
   • We can make this a topic at the ITS Roadshow

Symposium

We want to keep Tom in the loop on Symposium planning

1. Make sure Tom has dates for proposal submissions, registration, etc.
2. What can we do for campuses that can't afford to send faculty to attend