Academic Computing                                                                                                   

                                                                                                                                                 Friday, April 29, 2005

To:        Faculty

 

From:    Kim Vincent-Layton

             Lab Upgrade Manager, ph. x4211

             kbv7001@humboldt.edu

 

Subject:  Fall 05 Interdisciplinary Technology Facility Changes & Faculty Orientations Invitation

 

The staff of Academic Computing would like to invite you to preview the upgrades we have implemented for the Fall 2005 Semester.  One of the more notable changes will be the addition of floppy drives to several labs lacking.  While we still feel the floppy disk is technologically obsolete and highly error prone, we have listened to Ffaculty and student comments and have addedare adding floppy drives.  Our recommendation is still to encourage switching to “key-chainUSB” flash drives and avoiding floppy and zip diskettesfor file storage that have, which have higher failure rates.

 

Our ‘On Horizon’ sites located in Gist Hall H218 and in the Faculty Technology Solution Center (FTSC) located in Siemens Hall H1 will be available on April 29 for testing upcoming Fall application changes.  The stations in GH218 are near the main door, on the aisle ends; stations GH218/ 2A for Macintosh and GH218/3A for Windows. In the FTSC the ‘On Horizon’ stations are [Kim-need to add those here]

 

All Interdisciplinary Technology Facilities will be available August 10th, 11th, 12th, 15th, and 16th for orientation and live testing of your assignments and lab equipment. Please contact contact Academic Computing at x4200your Lab Manager (see list below) to schedule testing time in any Interdisciplinary Technology Facility. A staff member staff member will meet you at the appointed time and location.  In addition, the new Faculty Technology Solution Center in Siemens Hall 1 is openis available for Faculty testing of coursework and can also be scheduled by calling x4200.

 

There will be a few small planned changes to the hardware and software, which include the following:

 

Facility            Hardware/Software Changes Per Individual Facility

FH202       Instructor station memory upgrade, Apple Remote Desktop

GH218       7-in-1 Flash Card Reader added to Media Transfer Station, Optical optical mice and floppy drives added

JH212        Duplex printing added, Instructor station Station memory upgrade, Apple Remote Desktop

HGH105    Floppy drives added

LB121       7-in-1 Flash Card Reader added to Media Transfer Station, Optical optical mice and floppy drives added, Duplex duplex printing added, improved location and arrangement of Instructor sStation change

SH118       Short-throw overhead projector addedd

 

Changes to the standard software installation include:


Macintosh

         Mac OS X (10.4) *based on release date and compatibility

         Adobe Reader 7.0

         NVvu 1.0 html editor

 

Windows

   Adobe Reader 7.0

   NVu 1.0 html editor

   SPSS 13.0

*Based Dependent on release date and hardware compatibility

 

Please use the following links in order to access a complete version of both the standard and disciplinary software lists and the discipline specific software list for any facility.

[Kim-what do asterisks mean below?]

* http://www.humboldt.edu/~ac/labsftwr.shtml - #f05       - interdisciplinary software list

* http://www.humboldt.edu/~ac/dissftwr.shtml#F2005   - disciplinary software list

 

 

As you may know, Academic Computing staff has been fully supporting disciplinary software in addition to the standard software collection.  If you have any questions about this initiative, feel free to contact your a Lab Manager. 

 

In addition, Academic Computing staff would like to begin making contact with faculty members who assign course work to their students but do not usually schedule computer labs.  We are interested in what type of software you require your students to use to complete their assignments and what proportion of your students might frequent the University’s Interdisciplinary Technology Facilities.

 

Interdisciplinary Technology Facility Lab Managers phones, email and lab responsibility:

 

Laurie Takao, ph. x4207 lat1@humboldt.edu               Rocky Waters, ph. x4208 rrw1@humboldt.edu

FH202, JH212, LB121, LB310, SH118 & SH119         GH215, GH218, HG105, HG229, SA364, UAX123

 

 

Next time you are on the Internet, take a look at the AC web page: http://www.humboldt.edu/~ac

 

 

cCc:        Bill Cannon, AC Staff,  ITAG,  IT Council