[Studenttech.announce] ITSS INFOTECH.NEWS - NOVEMBER 2009

[Joel Ness]

+++ ITSS INFOTECH.NEWS +++
		November  2009

An email & web digest of technology news for UMD faculty, staff, and students.

To view this digest on the web: <http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/news/>


In This Issue

+ Moving from Mulberry
+ Technology Tuesdays
+ November ITSS Workshops
+ UMSurvey to Replace Test Pilot
+ Secure Data Deletion
+ 10 Gigabit data center upgrade
+ Classroom Lecture Capture
+ What Happened to the Computer Lab?
+ University data planning and decisions
+ SPSS Update


++Moving from Mulberry
Are you looking for information about Mulberry reaching retirement?
More at: <http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/news/2009/09-Nov.html#mullbery>

++Technology Tuesdays
Data Warehouse,  PDF's Tricks, Thunderbird: Tips, Tricks
More at: <http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/news/2009/09-Nov.html#ttt>

++November ITSS Workshops
Electronic Assessment Tools, Class Capture,
More at: <http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/news/2009/09-Nov.html#Workshops>

++UMSurvey to Replace Test Pilot
UMSurvey became the University system-wide survey tool at the beginning of this Fall semester.
More at: <http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/news/2009/09-Nov.html#survey>

++Secure Data Deletion
All faculty, staff, and student employees are required to guard the privacy of any private. data
More at: <http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/news/2009/09-Nov.html#data>

++10 Gigabit data center upgrade
TSS anticipated a technology shift to data centers that have dense,
multi-core, virtual-machine-intensive servers
More at: <http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/news/2009/09-Nov.html#gigabit>

++Classroom Lecture Capture
Class Capture system is very easy to use, both for faculty and their students.
More at:
<http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/news/2009/09-Nov.html#classroom>

++What Happened to the Computer Lab?
Over 80 percent of respondents to the annual ECAR study of undergraduate students reported owning laptops.
More at: <http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/news/2009/09-Nov.html#lab>

++University data planning and decisions
The Data Warehouse involves Financial, Payroll, HR, space, equipment inventory and student information.
More at: <http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/news/2009/09-Nov.html#decision>

++SPSS Update
BM has recently announced the acquisition of SPSS Inc. and it will become part of IBM.
More at: <http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/news/2009/09-Nov.html#SPSS>

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