Kyle Murley's List: Instructional Tech

• s the individual faculty member’s responsibility to ensure that appropriate controls are used to prevent sharing or collaboration by users you do not wish to access the information

• Handling a shrinking budget requires IT to be proactive and to adhere to simple  budget-conscious practices
• Rather than thinking about how IT can cut costs
• show how it can help others reduce expenses by becoming more effective in the  delivery of services
• use IT to make everyone else more efficient
• centralized, coordinated update and streamlines the task
• automate various processes
• brainstorm new ways to do daily tasks using effective processes with the help of  technology
• where we can add value
• budget decline yet, it remained flat
• remain that way for at least another year or two
• outsourced some everyday services
• coordinate operational objectives
• maximize its investment in thin-client server virtualization technology
• virtualization of the commuter school’s computer labs
• remote access
• thin-client desktop applications creates more flexibility
• run multiple courses on a single server
• courses requiring different software sets can be scheduled in the same lab
• virtual lab also can be accessed from off-campus, which fosters distance  learning

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•   To provide an automated method to change a workstations name Operating Systems Windows 9x, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, (not yet tested on Vista)
• To provide an automated method to change a workstations name
• Windows 9x, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, (not yet tested on Vista)
• MAC address functions are ok as these don't use WMI.

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• Navigator Request Engine (NRE) automates request management processes, including building a lender string based on both policies and real-time availability of members within the group. It also offers a single interface for consortia and ILL requests. WorldCat Navigator integrates with the local ILS to streamline workflows for both the borrowing and lending library.
• Reduces turnaround times due to automation of the request management process
• unmediated request management
• eliminating redundant activities and reducing staff touch points in the request cycle
• Fully automates the entire ILL management process
• Supports both mediated and unmediated requests

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• avatar storage ip correctly, just press enter to use the default url.

• Importing 3D Models from Google 3D Warehouse
• type xml2mesh office_chair
• xml2mesh file into the same folder as the mesh
• rexmeshtool with the command rexmeshtool office_chair.mesh

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• the machine prints and binds books on demand in five minutes, while customers  wait.

• Google Analytic chart of the traffic I drew to a recent blog, out of 15,819 pageviews. 12,003 pageviews or 75% was directly attributable to Twitter
• Not even Google, Digg, nor Facebook could even come close to that number. So for me "traffic" is how I would describe Twitter, with "relationships" and "networking" coming in 2nd and 3rd.

• Faculty members are still expected to publish in traditional journals, still  expected to meet their classes in rooms equipped with chalkboards and designed  for lectures, and still expected by their students to tell them what they should  know so they can write it on paper during a test.
• On campus, we educators behave as if computers have not yet been invented.
• knowledge technology would so easily change our home and social patterns but  have only a limited impact where knowledge is produced?
• Teaching and learning interactions seem like rituals that both teachers and  students adhere to with religious persistence.
• Few people discover tangible evidence of the result of prayer, yet people  continue to pray. Perhaps the intention awakens us to possibilities. And perhaps  the intention to learn has a similar effect. But, how can we ever know what  learning is taking place and if our faith in these rituals has any basis?

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• Teachers' Perceptions: barriers and supports to using technology in the classroom

• No matter how many computers are available or how much   training teachers have had, there are still substantial numbers who are "talking the   talk" but not "walking the walk.

• The Millennium Student: And Now, Evidence for the Millennial Instructor!

• By innovation, I don’t mean just adding more technology to the classroom, I mean thinking differently about learning in its entirety
• “technology is just an amplifier” - technology doesn’t change the quality of teaching or learning, it will only amplify it, either in a positive or negative way.
• changing our approaches to learning, not modifying our curriculum to a “newer” version of what we’ve already had for the past 20 years.

  • Totally!

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