Michigan IT – Governance & Community of Practice & Activities for June/July/August 2024
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Category Archives: Professional Development
Tech Tip: Merry Sky
Tech Tip: This month’s tip is a sleek and user-friendly weather website that provides hyperlocal forecasts with a focus on precipitation timelines.
Michigan IT – Governance & Community of Practice & Activities for May & June 2024
We invite you to get involved, share your knowledge, and mark your calendars for these meetings! Members and leaders from Governance and CoP groups may find this podcast and guide helpful, created by the Center for Positive Organizations. IT Governance Meetings The full calendar is on the IT Governance web page. May Meetings Recap: Upcoming June Meetings: IT… Read More »
Tech Tip: City of Ann Arbor Park Finder
Tech Tip: This month’s tip will help you discover the extensive network of parks and nature areas maintained by Ann Arbor’s Parks and Recreation department.
Seeking Volunteers for Michigan Technology Community Events!
Get Involved! Ready to make a difference in the Michigan Technology community? Sign up to be a part of our volunteer directory today!
Attend the LSA Teaching and Learning Fair
Meet new people, learn about new technologies and services, and leave with some inspiration!
Michigan IT – Governance & Community of Practice & Activities for April & May 2024
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Michigan IT – Governance & Community of Practice & Activities for March & April 2024
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Tech Tip: Musopen
This month’s tip is a non-profit organization that provides free access to sheet music, royalty-free public domain music recordings, and other music resources: Musopen. They offer a wide range of musical content, including solo piano variations, introductions to great composers, and guides to specific musical pieces.
New Generative AI Workshop Series Launches
Information and Technology Services (ITS) and the Teaching and Technology Collaborative (TTC) have collaborated to launch a new series of free Generative AI (GenAI) Workshops as part of its growing catalog of generative artificial intelligence resources.
Michigan IT – Governance & Community of Practice & Activities for February & March 2024
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Michigan IT events: Tours and activities
Michigan IT invites you to get out and learn about technology around campus. Take a break and make time to join Michigan IT to network, socialize, and discover firsthand the technology across the university that drives innovation and helps make U-M leaders and best! There are some fun and interesting events coming up in February and March: the… Read More »
Michigan IT Governance & Communities of Practice activities for January and February 2024
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Tech Tip: Weather in Calendar
This month’s tip is a service that enables users to integrate weather forecasts directly into their calendar. Weather in Calendar uses emojis to display a 16-day forecast and works for all calendars supporting online .ics and emojis, such as Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook on iOS, Android, MacOS, and Windows. Users can enter their city, adjust according to… Read More »
Call for proposals – Enriching Scholarship 2024
The U-M Teaching and Technology Collaborative is excited to announce the 26th annual Enriching Scholarship (ES) conference to be held virtually, May 6-9, 2024 (add to Google calendar). The conference is free for all members of the U-M community. The 2024 call for proposals is now open! This year’s theme is “Surveying the Now.” The theme aims to highlight the ways technology has changed… Read More »
Michigan IT Governance & Communities of Practice activities for November/December 2023/January 2024
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Tech Tip: Bluesky
This month I’m highlighting a decentralized social app called Bluesky. It was developed by former Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey. It aims to create a new form of social media that is open, transparent, and community-driven. The platform uses an open-source framework and has a Twitter-like user interface with algorithmic choice, federated design, and community-specific moderation. Its goal is… Read More »
This month in EDUCAUSE: Institutional resilience, challenges to tackle in 2024, GenAI
Dear Colleagues,I have been your EDUCAUSE ambassador for U-M and advocate for more four years-time flies! It has been a pleasure to provide articles of interest and upcoming trends in each newsletter. I am taking a hiatus for a year—it’s been a joy to serve you in this role! Thank you! Irina Key articles of interest: EDUCAUSE Top… Read More »
Michigan IT Governance & Communities of Practice activities for October/November 2023
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Tech Tip: Arc Max
This month, I’m highlighting some new, innovative AI features that were recently added to the already impressive Arc web browser: Arc Max. Rather than simply adding a sidebar for ChatGPT like many other browsers are doing, they identified five specific integrations that can make browsing the web easier and more enjoyable: Each of them may be individually enabled… Read More »