Schedule your Classes for Lecture Capture

With school starting in just over a week now is the time to schedule your classes for lecture capture. Give your students one more important and easy tool to use when studying. Here is all you do:

Email the following information to tlc@unm.edu

1. Your Name
2. Your Email
3. Class with section #
4. Start time and day (ex. Mon. & Wed 11:30-12:45) NOTE: this is what time your recordings will start and stop, if you need to adjust your times slightly please list those times (ex. 11:40-12:45)

We will schedule your classes, set up a media catalog for each course which will have a URL that you can paste in WebCT or on your website and we’re off to the races.

Virtualizing

So I'm sitting here tasked with checking out virtualization. Sure I've used MS Virtual PC's and Servers for my MS Training courses. I was pretty good at loading them and using them. But really not the ideal platform for real life use. So off on the search I go!

So what to use? Xen, Citrix, VMWare, Microsoft or other? Wow, who just through the bag of skittles into my search?

So what am I looking for? Free, inexpensive, easy to learn, setup and manage Virtualization Desktop that can manage Windows XP-7, Mac Tiger-Snow Leopard, and Linux Ubunutu, SUSE, Red Hat and most others, not including FreeBSD. Really I don't think I'm asking for too much. This is only going to run a small section but hey I want what I need!

Film Making in New Mexico

Yesterdays guest lecture Karen RedHawk Dallett presentation on "Let's Make Movies: New Mexico's Coolest New Industry" was packed. Over 100 people and not just students showed up. The theme, write write write then collaborate. Pretty cool deal and we can't wait to see what else they bring to campus!

New happenings

Lots of new stuff here on Valencia Campus to add to the huge raise in new faces.

Room C-108 is live and overflowing with Math Students. Check out the new podium in there, it is nice! B-111 just had it's new podium delivered and we will be installing it on Friday to go along with the new Organic Motion Graphics Stage. More new podiums are on the way. Rooms B-124 & B-118 will be getting new podiums installed on Friday as well. Wow I told you lots of new stuff!

& Man lots of new faces on campus!

Lecture Capture Systems In place

We now have Media Site Capture systems in place throughout campus. Are you ready to add a new dimension to your teaching repertory? With more labs to have Lecture Capture installed this coming month we hope you try out this new system. The Teaching and Learning Center will be offering classes on the Capture Technology through out the Fall semester.

Wondering which rooms are wired with the Media Site systems? Well here is the list of rooms that are ready to record:
A124
A125
A127
A129
A131
A133
A140
A141
C101
C103
C111
C113
H101
H103
H105
H108
H111
V111
V120
and our lab LRC141

With close to another 15 rooms to be installed. So we hope your ready to try out this cool new tool that can benefit you and your students.

Classroom Capture part B

How many classrooms do you have lecture capture in? Besides finances what else is holding you back? When we are done this summer we will have 33 of 43 classrooms setup for classroom capture in some configuration. We plan to use it as a study tool and a distance education enhancement. Are we headed down the right road?

Transparent Communications with employees and employers

I've been seeing lots of workshops and post about have transparent collaborative communications between Employers and Employees. Question I have is that such a good thing?

Sure we want great communication streams between the hired hands and the bosses. But, rarely is that the case. So when corporate gets on their high horses and demands more transparent communications I think they're missing one very important element. If employees are telling the companies what they think and their immediate bosses either do not communicate why ideas or bad or why ideas can not be implemented or show disdain for employees who speak up then it is my thought that by the nature of the beast you will only create a larger rift between management and employees. Remember it is the employees who are the engine of the company. You might do the steering but you're not going anywhere without a water pump or carburetor.

Now if they do not want that rift leave things as they are and forget all about the transparent communications. Or if they truly want to move communications through the channels as quickly and as smartly as possible, then you need to review each and every management person and cull out those who are still in the ancient mode of shut up and work or leave. Just my thoughts.