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February 27, 2009
Presentation - Recorded
Today, I recorded a presentation explaining some upcoming changes in Computing resources. In conjunction with VPS (Video Production Studio), now part of UCS, I recorded the presentation and plan to send it to campus in the next few weeks.
In the past, UCS has used videos and video tutorials to strive to educate campus members about technology. Today's recording may very well be the beginning of a video series explaining Computing Resources and giving functional walkthrough in non-nerd-speak.
Although I'm not thrilled about having my face in such a public presentation, I guess that is the price of having a good idea - or of driving it home. I want to help WOU and make daily processes more efficient. I think we CAN help, but often education takes time. The long-term payoff is well worth it, so I hope the information provided is perceived as helpful by the campus community.
Posted by ellism at 11:29 PM | Comments (0)
February 20, 2009
Progress
Well lately I've been working on a lot of border security. Campus is safer than ever :)
We have some up-and-coming programmers are "Portal"-izing ServiceMatch for Disability Services. This involves migrating the security AND the layout from the current setup to a full portal integration. It is excellent experience for each of them. When they are done, I have some minor report/page mods they can do. This will help each of them to be more confident and proficient in the PL/SQL coding.
I'll be recording a video soon explaining changes we hope to make to the allfacstaff email list. Now that UCS and VPS are in one department (Computing and Video Production), I can leverage new types of technology (online videos, podcasting, video walkthroughs, ...) to help educate and support campus users. This is pretty exciting.
I've done hundreds of other things too, but can't hardly remember any of them. This is the downside of blogging on a friday ;)
Posted by ellism at 11:23 PM | Comments (0)