Presentation Slides The proposal for the ACTT called for an evaluation at the one-year and two-year marks. The one-year evaluation was designed to assess the Team’s activities so that changes could be made. The evaluation was also designed to…
Academic Cyberinfrastructure Transformation Team
Navigating the "Deltas"
Category: Meetings
ACTT Notes: April 4, 2017
Language School Orientations It is that time of year again! In this meeting we will be going over the orientation sessions for Language Schools and Bread Loaf. Language pledge. Each school interprets the pledge slightly differently. Hospital, Helpdesk, and Reference…
Notes: March 28th, 2017
Guest: Mike Roy, Dean of Library Agenda: Overview of the IT governance process (Mike) The role of the academic portfolio group (Mike) Discussion: Questions we need to answer: what projects would we consider? which are too small? which are too…
Notes: March 14, 2017
1. WordPress review Recap recent history of review prep. MIIS has its own instance of WordPress separate from Midd. College. WordPress has grown quite a bit — 1000s of websites in our instance. WordPress has been difficult to keep up-to-date…
Notes: Moodle Archving
Guest – Billy Sneed We’re transitioning away from Moodle, but we’re still somewhat reliant on it, even though we’ve migrated to Canvas. We can’t totally turn Moodle off. Need to think thoughtfully about what we still need access to in…
Notes for Core Team Meeting: Hypothes.is
February 28, 2017 Guests: Jeremy Dean and Nate Angell The ACTT Core Team met with Jeremy (Director of Education) and Nate (Director of Marketing) from Hypothes.is ( https://hypothes.is ). This followed A two-week “facilitated online experience” using Hypothes.is was led…
ACTT Proposal for the Adoption of Panopto
Why The ACTT recommended a fall 2016 Panopto Pilot, following the spring 2016 evaluation of streaming media and video asset management services. 10 Undergraduate and 8 MIIS courses used Panopto for video streaming. Students that also used Canvas in their…
ACTT Proposal for the Adoption of Zoom
Why We investigated alternative web conferencing services for remote work, collaboration, and online learning. Our Adobe service provider will be discontinuing their education pricing for Adobe Connect licenses, doubling our costs. A number of services were identified; some of them…
ACI – The Academic Cyberinfrastructure Inventory
Last Spring we gathered information on all of the services that make up our academic cyberinfrastructure, services and innovations for teaching, learning, research and creativity. This resulted in a long list of services in various stages of adoption. Since collecting…
Notes for In-progress Project Presentation for Web Conferencing
Bob C. Where we are at with the project. act.middcreate.net/site/projects/web- confercing – service Adobe Connect has been in Production for a few years. Adobe’s change in pricing structure, created impetus to review options. ITS was looking into options for unified…
