Wednesday, October 31st
University Library: Uncovering the Impact Story of Open Research (Webcast)
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Collaborative Learning Lab (1st Floor of the Murray Library)
Research today is often evaluated by the journal impact factor of a published article. This has left little room for innovation: it is difficult for new journals to achieve a high impact factor, and non-traditional research products are often published outside of journals. It has also failed to recognize and reward broad impact and post-publication use.
As scholarly publishing and interactions move online, scholarly and public impacts are becoming easier to follow and measure. Heather Piwowar will talk about tools that can track these impacts today, and discuss how these tools are empowering revolutions in open access publishing and open data repositories.
GMCTE Panel Presentation #2: Social Media in Teaching and Learning
Rebekah Bennetch (Ron and Jane Graham Centre for the Study of Communication), Eric Micheels (Department of Bioresource Policy, Business & Economics), and Tracie Risling (College of Nursing) Heather M. Ross (GMCTE)
1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
Arts 241 (Neatby-Timlin Theatre)
This panel will discuss a variety of ways that instructors at the U of S are making use of social media tools such as Twitter and blogs in teaching and learning.
Bring your laptops or mobile devices as there will be a Twitter "backchannel" as part of this panel. Feel free to join in!
Apple iOS6 Functionality and Productivity
Jerrod Dietrich, Training Services
2:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Arts 241 (Neatby-Timlin Theatre)
Since its release, the iPad has revolutionized the concept of mobile computing. We will explore configurations, applications and practices that will optimize your iPad for use at the University of Saskatchewan.
Learn how to stay connected, up-to-date and synchronized "in the iCloud" with useful tips and tricks.
This session delves into some of the essential settings for the iPad (especially for use on the University of Saskatchewan network) and examines helpful productivity, organizational, instructional and miscellaneous applications. Also, learn how to access remote servers, store files, use iCloud, find your lost device and more!
ICT Platform Services: Virtualization and Cloud Services
Dion Rowney, ICT Platform Services
3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Arts 241 (Neatby-Timlin Theatre)
We will be discussing the new U of S private cloud service being offered by ICT's Platform Services.
This service is hosted on campus and will allow University staff and faculty the ability to provision virtual servers quickly and easily on demand. Users will have their virtual servers running on enterprise grade equipment in datacenters with redundancy and backups.
This session will feature brief presentation and demonstration of the service with a Q&A to follow.
