MSU’s Google Apps for Education implementation is officially live, and can be accessed at http://googleapps.msu.edu. Now, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Sites can be created using your MSU account. Note that Gmail is not a part of this Google Apps package. For a list of support resources available, read below.
DATE: November 11, 2009
PLACE: Main Library, North Conference Room, 4th Floor, West Wing
TIME: 8:45am – 10:00am (8:30am for refreshments)
TOPIC: Open Educational Resources (OER)
Presenters:
Cliff Lampe, Ph.D. and Rick Wash, Ph.D.
College of Communincation Arts and Sciences
Christine Geith, Ph.D. and Gwyn Heyboer Sr. Instructional Designer, MSUglobal
Sunnie Kim
Creative Technologist, MSUglobal
MSU faculty are participating in the global trend of [...]
This post serves as a reminder of the Educause 2009 Online conference that will be taking place in 120 Linton Hall Wednesday, Thursday and Friday courtesy of Libraries, Computing and Technology and the College of Arts and Letters. We hope to see you there for all or part of this experience, including a presentation by [...]
November 4, 5 and 6, Libraries Computing and Technology and the College of Art and Letters will be hosting a live EDUCAUSE 2009 Virtual Conference in 120 Linton Hall. We have registered for this one location and have selected the presentations that will be shown, primarily focusing on topics for those of you interested in [...]
As announced by Byron Brown, the first in a series of presentations examining MSU’s LMS future.
Gerd Kortemeyer, Lyman Briggs College. Course management system demonstration/discussion: LON-CAPA.
TIME: THURSDAY, October 15, from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m.
PLACE: The Koo Room of Marshall-Adams Hall
MSU Virtual University Design and Technology (vuDAT) invites you to attend the next session in our ongoing Breakfast Series: Conversations on Online Pedagogy and Best Practices.
DATE: Wednesday, October 14, 2009
PLACE: MSU Main Library, North Conference Room, 4th floor, west wing
TIME: 8:45am – 10:00am (8:30am for refreshments)
TOPIC: Using Technology to Facilitate Communication, Connections and Content in [...]
“Including Quality in Your Online Courses: The ‘Quality Matters’ Program.”
TIME: Friday, September 25, from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m.
PLACE: 105 Natural Science Building.
The Quality Matters program was created a few years ago at the University of Maryland with support from the U.S. Department of Education, and it got tremendous play at conferences on online [...]
The ANGEL administrators replaced the old database server with a new one, which has twice the capacity for load and use. This should improve ANGEL’s performance and reliability. The administrators continue to monitor the system. If you encounter issues, please notify Distance Learning Services at 5-2345 or 1-800-500-1554, so the problem can be diagnosed ASAP.
The following memo was sent to the Deans, Directors and Chairs this afternoon by ATS director Tom Davis, in response to the issues seen on the ANGEL system September 8 and 9, 2009:
The ANGEL service is currently experiencing severe performance issues, to
the point of being unusable during peak periods. These issues appear to be
directly related [...]
The following was posted to http://servicestatus.msu.edu this morning:
Additional database tuning was performed at both the application and database layer, in an attempt to stabilize the system. ANGEL has remained stable throughout the night, and we are continuing to closely monitor the system. The ANGEL vendor is still engaged and working closely with the Service Sponsors.
Some [...]
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