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Winter 2006: Continuous Improvement



— Top Stories —

Continuous Change: Chaos or Improvement?
  by Fred Siff, VP and CIO 
  Whether this continuous change constitutes continuous improvement depends on value judgments, and these will differ. But we can live and conduct our business... 

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ClearTxt Offers Clear Advantage to Students
  by Mike Lieberman 
  A new product, ClearTxt, will enable users of the Blackboard LMS (Learning Management System) to recieve notice, within minutes, of information posted within the Blackboard system... 

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FTRC Technology Innovations
  by Michael Lively  
  Innovations include multimedia chat rooms, 3D educational role-playing games, enhanced image processing applications, lock and key e-portfolios, smart phone web-push courses, and an audio/whiteboard application. 

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Podcasting Arrives in UC Classrooms
  by Michael Lieberman and Don Rainwater 
  Podcasting entails audio content that is delivered via an RSS feed presenting a downloadable or streaming file (often MP3). This Winter Quarter, nine UC faculty will pilot a podcast experiment. 

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UC Flex: Laying the Foundation
for the New Urban Research University
  by Jim Mazur and Michelle Bankowski 
  UC's ability to achieve its goal of becoming the premier "New Urban Research University" depends on finding new approaches to its teaching, research, and service missions - and new ways of thinking about itself. 

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  UCit Increases E-mail Quotas for Faculty and Staff
  by Bev Upton  
  Over the past several months, the UCit E-mail Services team has been working to provide all University faculty and staff with an improved base quota for e-mailboxes.  

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  UCit Offers Intelligent Queuing
  by Barb Renner  
  UCit has installed an Intelligent Queuing feature on the campus phone system. 

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— Other News —

  OSU and UC Collaborate on Disaster Recovery Plan
  by Clarence Smith and Bill Lewis  
  In phase one, we have dealt with the backup and recovery of critical mainframe operating systems and applications from tape backups. 

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  Public Saftey Rekeys Electronic Classrooms
  by Jane Combs  
  During the upcoming quarter break, Public Safety is changing the locks on all of the doors to electronic classrooms on west campus. New locks will be installed on the microphone drawers in instructor workstations in the classrooms as well.  

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  Road Runnner Program Extended
till July 2006
  by Mary J. Clark  
  Time Warner Cable has extended its program to offer UC faculty and staff a discount on Road Runner high-speed Internet access through June 2006 

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  Safely Conduct Business Online
  submitted (and with a foreword by) Kim Logan 
  This press release, specific to online holiday shopping, is sound advice for conducting any business online. 

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  Stay in Touch Anytime, Anywhere
  by Mary J. Clark 
 

Do you know how you can enjoy real time access to important information on any end device, anywhere, at any time?

 

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  VPN 5000 Retires
  by Diana Noelcke 
  UCit will be decommissioning the VPN 5000 server as of 30 January 2006.  

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  What's in Your UCFileSpace?
  by Don Rainwater 
  From anywhere in the world, you can use your UC user ID to access your own personal online storage space. 

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