Tech Tip: Ecosia
Tech Tip: This month’s tip is a search engine that helps the environment each time you use it: Ecosia. They donate 80% of their profits to non-profit organizations that focus on reforestation.
Category Archives: Professional Development
Michigan IT Governance & Communities of Practice activities for November/December 2021
Get involved, share your knowledge, and mark your calendars for these professional development opportunities!
This month in EDUCAUSE
This month in EDUCAUSE: An in-depth exploration of pandemic and post-pandemic evolution of learning delivery.
Enriching Scholarship goes national for the first time
As the year ends, we would like to offer you a few moments, here, to look back at and appreciate a 2021 win for the university. Enriching Scholarship 2021 took the online-only format to new heights by expanding to a national scale, bringing in instructors and or support staff from over half a dozen universities. In addition to… Read More »
Social, networking events added to the 2021 Michigan Symposium line up
In the words of the noted philosopher John “Hannible” Smith (the A-Team) “I love it when a plan comes together!” The 2021 Michigan IT Symposium is six weeks away, and the pieces are falling into place. After an impressive response to the call for proposals, the planning committee selected a total of 16 breakout sessions, 2 spotlight sessions,… Read More »
Michigan IT Governance & Communities of Practice activities for October/November 2021
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Tech Tip: Workflowy
Tech Tip: Workflowy, a productivity tool that can help you capture notes, develop to do lists, and supports sharing, which can be useful for project management.
Speaker series highlights programming tools, resources
All members of the U-M community are invited to join the CoderSpaces hosts during the month of November as they share their expertise! The presenting hosts are a team of ITS Advanced Research Computing (ARC) and Consulting for Statistics, Computing & Analytics Research (CSCAR) consultants, faculty and post-docs, as well as research support staff originating from different research… Read More »
This month in EDUCAUSE
This month in EDUCAUSE, Irene talks cybersecurity and mentoring.
Deadline extended for Michigan IT Symposium proposals
The deadline to submit poster and presentation proposals for the 2021 Michigan IT Symposium has been extended to Friday, October 8. Consider the projects and topics you or your team could share with the greater U-M IT community. Take advantage of this opportunity to showcase the accomplishments and the IT solutions to the challenges faced during the pandemic. … Read More »
Michigan IT Governance & Communities of Practice activities for September/October 2021
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Tech Tip: OneTab
Use OneTab to reduce the amount of memory your browser is using, and to easily export and share the tabs that you currently have open.
This month in EDUCAUSE
My name is Irene Knokh and I’m the EDUCAUSE ambassador for U-M. I will provide articles of interest, upcoming trends, and generally be your advocate for EDUCAUSE. Each month, I will share with you EDUCAUSE articles of interest, upcoming trends – and generally be your advocate for EDUCAUSE. Digital transformation: Helping faculty adjust In the article, “The Adjacent Possible… Read More »
Call for Proposals for the 2021 Michigan IT Symposium
The 2021 Michigan IT Symposium will be held virtually December 14–16. The planning committee is accepting proposals for breakout and poster sessions through October 1. The success of the 2020 symposium demonstrated a virtual event works. The response to last year’s event was overwhelming. Attendance numbers were higher than they have ever been and participants responded positively to… Read More »
Tech Tip: 12 things you didn’t know you could do with Dropbox
This month’s tip is a Chrome extension that will help your computer run smoother by automatically snoozing browser tabs that you are not currently using: The Marvellous Suspender.
Michigan IT Governance & Communities of Practice activities for August/September 2021
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This month in EDUCAUSE
My name is Irene Knokh and I’m the EDUCAUSE ambassador for U-M. I will provide articles of interest, upcoming trends, and generally be your advocate for EDUCAUSE. Learning better: How am I doing in class? What do I need to study? In the blog “Show Students Their Data: Using Dashboards to Support Self-Regulated Learning,” Jennifer Love, Sean DeMonner and Stephanie Teasley,… Read More »
New phishing curriculum for your unit
To help you provide phishing awareness training in your unit ITS Information Assurance (IA) has published new phishing curriculum materials on Safe Computing!
Michigan IT Governance & Communities of Practice activities for June/July/August 2021
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This month in EDUCAUSE
My name is Irene Knokh and I’m the EDUCAUSE ambassador for U-M. I will provide articles of interest, upcoming trends, and generally be your advocate for EDUCAUSE. Security, collaborative, data, teaching: All in summer’s day of work June and early July 2021 means an extensive discussion of security at EDUCAUSE. The theme this year is “Cybersecurity turned inside out.”… Read More »