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OUR PEOPLE – Our quarterly newsletter highlights our people. First, welcome to Jinah Young, our new application programmer in I&IT Web Development. Jinah comes to us from the Apollo Group. She replaces James Caplette, who left for an opportunity outside the university... Joining us in I&IT Learning are two new Instructional Designers, Bedan Kamau and Jason Beers. They both join us from Cal State San Bernardino...Courtenay Griffin joined us recently as Accessible Technology Initiative (ATI) training coordinator. She is working with our ATI student assistants and arranging workshops. She recently completed her MBA, is a part-time instructor at ITT Technical Institute and previously worked for our university in Financial Aid…Congratulations to Rick Cass and Terry Hogan of I&IT Learning. At a recent Bronco basketball game, the university’s Athletics Department gave awards to our two video production specialists. Rick and Terry were cited for their continuing support of Bronco athletic teams, along with their diligent work in starting the new ESPN™-style sports news show that is shown through the campus television network.
BLACKBOARD UPGRADED, AVAILABLE TO FACULTY QUICKLY -- Blackboard quarterly maintenance is a major project during each quarter break. During this time, I&IT prepares Blackboard for the upcoming quarter by archiving old courses, making the next quarter’s courses available for populating by instructors and applying software patches. The most recent maintenance project was more involved because I&IT upgraded Blackboard’s database to Oracle version 10g. The Blackboard team had planned a 64-hour outage, but returned Blackboard to service nine hours sooner than scheduled. This gave instructors a head start on configuring their online courses for the spring quarter. The team included Dave Lyon, Hari Singh, Pauline Salim, Heath Caldwell, Dave Drivdahl, Paul Henson, Gabe Kuri, Betty Wu and Bev Geuting.
BUDGET & ASSESSMENT TEAM FORMED – I&IT has formed a Budget & Assessment team whose functions are to: advise Debra Brum, I&IT’s Vice President, on budget matters, including proposed new projects; assess division services. The group, consisting of I&IT Leadership and staff members from each department, now includes a faculty member, Rick Mathias, from the College of Agriculture’s Food Marketing & Agribusiness Management Department. This committee is the former P&R committee, with a more descriptive name.
ACCESSIBILITY NEWS -- An important initiative of the entire CSU, our university and I&IT is making technology accessible to all through the Accessible Technology Initiative (ATI). Carol Heins-Gonzales, I&IT’s accessible technology coordinator, is offering a series of weekly accessibility workshops for faculty and staff. Other recent developments include training our Help Desk to support the initiative and participating in various college and department meetings to discuss accessibility. The team is currently preparing a presentation for the Tech Group and a workshop on screen-reading technology. The team will be presenting at an upcoming meeting of a CEIS graduate class taught by Teshia Roby, “Alternative Learning Environments.” ATI is also providing an ATI-FITS service to faculty who would like help assessing and/or improving accessibility of their instructional materials. Carol’s group is in the process of providing assessments to faculty members in the Music and Art departments.
NEW, SMART CLASSROOMS -- During the break between winter and spring quarters, I&IT upgraded four classrooms with new “smart” technology. Rooms upgraded were in the Collins School – 79A-1263, 79-147, 79B-1230 and 79B-1235. We now have 86 smart classrooms throughout campus, thanks to the efforts of many in and outside I&IT. Coordinating the recent upgrades was I&IT’s Heather Fannin.
CLICKERS IN THE CLASSROOM – I&IT continues to lead the way in increasing audience response systems in classrooms. In recent weeks, I&IT Learning worked with a team of 20 faculty members and more than 500 students to try two types of “clickers.” “We found the anonymous nature of audience responses really engaged students in learning,” commented Daniel Smith, Studio 6 coordinator, part of a project team that also includes Hye Ok Park, Director, and April McKettrick and Trevor Henderson from Learning. The group is reporting results to the IT Governance Teaching, Learning and Technology sub-committee, headed by Ms. Park and Peggy Perry, Director of Faculty Development. The sub-committee plans to recommend which one of two brands of clickers should be utilized throughout campus.
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“I&IT Newsletter” is a publication of the Instructional & Information Technology (I&IT) division of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA.
Send comments to Denny Mosier at (909) 979-6334 or dbmosier@csupomona.edu.
Debra Brum |
dabrum@csupomona.edu |
| Stephanie Doda Associate Vice President, I&IT |
sndoda@csupomona.edu 909 979-6322 |
| Al Arboleda Information Security Officer |
aarboleda@csupomona.edu 909 979-6449 |
| Mauricio Calderon Director, I&IT Applications and CMS Technical Director |
macalderon@csupomona.edu 909 979-6388 |
| Curtis Clark Director, I&IT Web Development |
jcclark@csupomona.edu 909 979-6371 |
| Joe Matsumoto Director, I&IT Systems |
jmatsumoto@csupomona.edu 909 979-6421 |
| Denny Mosier Director, I&IT Support |
dbmosier@csupomona.edu 909 979-6334 |
| Hye Ok Park Director, I&IT Learning |
hyeok@csupomona.edu 909 979-6304 |
| Susan Reese Manager, I&IT Projects & Services |
slreese@csupomona.edu 909 979-6344 |
“I&IT Newsletter” is a publication of the Instructional & Information Technology (I&IT) division of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA.
Send comments to Denny Mosier at (909) 979-6334 or dbmosier@csupomona.edu.
This page was last updated on April 23, 2008.
