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Through a new strategic partnership, Indiana University will deploy an institution-wide communication system to more effectively reach prospective students, current students, alumni, donors and friends.

IU’s new four-year agreement with Microsoft includes productivity tools for students, faculty, and staff and enterprise server products for departments and schools.

IU has finalized a new four-year agreement with Microsoft that includes enterprise licensing, cloud services, and converged communications. Departments will be able to take advantage of unlimited use enterprise server products at no cost, while students, faculty, and staff will have access to a range of personal productivity titles at no cost.

You’re increasingly using a variety of handheld and mobile devices to connect, and IU systems need to be able to provide access at critical times and places where you need to retrieve data or update information.

We’re increasingly using a variety of handheld and mobile devices to connect, and IU systems need to be able to provide access at critical times and places where we need to retrieve data or update information.
To gather creative ideas on how to pursue this charge, the mobility team recently hosted a town hall gathering of tech savvy populations across all of IU’s campuses. Overall, participants envisioned a future in which “My mobile device is constantly aware of the time of day, my location, my IU calendar, what classes I am taking, and my employment status.”
Here’s an extended listing of ideas people shared:
In the classroom
Course registration: Bring together all the info from the registrar, course descriptions, professor ratings, etc. in OneStart — map this out so that I can see the locations of the classes, resources for my selected classes, etc.
My schedule for classes — give map of where classes are and how to get there. What’s on the syllabus? Where is the professor? Set up meetings; see locations on maps
Who is in class today? I want notes later … Or can’t get to class … App will tell me who is there so I can contact them for notes
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To gather creative ideas on the future of mobility computing at IU, the mobility team recently hosted a town hall gathering of tech savvy populations across all of IU’s campuses.

Did you miss the meeting? No problem — you can still join the conversation.

We’re increasingly using a variety of handheld and mobile devices to connect, and university systems need to be able to provide access at critical times and places. UITS invites you to help the mobility team formulate ideas on how to accomplish this — join us at a May 1 town hall meeting across all of IU’s campuses.

Many of you made invaluable contributions to shaping Empowering People (EP), the university’s new IT strategic plan. This broad base of engagement across all campuses is also needed during implementation. This week includes two events aimed at pursuing priorities you helped us identify during the development of EP.

Open to the entire IU community, the IU Office of the Vice President for IT and the IU Bloomington Office of the Provost are hosting a university-wide demo of Connexions, one of the nation’s premier sites for open course materials and for managing publishing processes.

Please join the IU Libraries for an introduction to the Public Knowledge Project and a general discussion of technologies that improve worldwide access to the scholarly research output of the university.

IU Bloomington Continuing Studies offers adult non-credit Professional Development computer courses. A few upcoming March and April classes include:

Digital Video Editing (Begins March 26)
Adobe Photoshop CS (Begins March 29)
Online Identity Theft: Don’t Let it Happen to You (Begins April 18)

To register or to request a complete catalog, click on “Lifelong Learning” at:
http://continue.indiana.edu/
You can also call 855-7801.
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When: 10am-4pm, Wednesday, March 30 Where: Informatics and Communications Technology Complex, atrium
Come learn about Linux and the open source movement behind it at LinuxFest 2005. Also take an opportunity to find out what UITS and vendors like HP, Sun, and Apple have to offer you through presentations, demonstrations, and exhibits. Keynote speaker for this year’s LinuxFest is open source advocate and former Mozilla core developer, Scott Collins.
LinuxFest 2005 is sponsored by the UITS Unix Systems Support Group. For more about LinuxFest, see:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/linuxfest/
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What: EndNotes: The Basics When: Wednesday, March 23, 1:30-4:30pm Where: Library Information Commons, STEPS classroom
This STEPS workshop gives you an introduction to EndNote – a free application available to you that allows you to organize and manage bibliographic information. Learn to capture citation/bibliographic information, use word processing programs to reformat your in-text citations and bibliographies, and use a wide variety of style formats. Also learn how to merge libraries, work with footnotes in “Cite While You Write”, add text to citations in “Cite While You Write”, change text in libraries globally, and link references to files and web sites.
You can also take advantage of the EndNote Question and Answer Panel prior to the workshop from 10am-noon. Simply email your questions to ittraining@indiana.edu 48 hours prior to the session to have them addressed in the workshop.
To register for this or any of the other STEPS workshops offered by UITS IT Training & Education, see:
http://ittraining.iu.edu/iub/workshops/
Questions? Contact IT Training & Education at ittraining@indiana.edu or 855-7383.
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The UITS Student Technology Center (STC) in IT131 will be open 24 hours a day over the spring break.
Hours at other STCs will vary. To view hours for other labs, see:
http://www.iupui.edu/~stc/springbreak.html
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