Michigan IT Governance & CoP activities for April/May 2021
Get involved, share your knowledge, and mark your calendars for these professional development opportunities!
Category Archives: Professional Development
Use the new Safe Computing Curriculum in your unit
As U-M employees and community members, we all share in the responsibility to help protect U-M IT systems and data. But how do you do that? ITS Information Assurance has developed a Safe Computing Curriculum that offers IT security and privacy/confidentiality best practices to help safeguard the university’s digital assets.
Tech Tip: OneLook Dictionary Search
OneLook Dictionary search helps you find the exact word or phrase that you’re looking for.
Enriching Scholarship 2021
Hosted by the University of Michigan’s Teaching and Technology Collaborative (TeachTech), Enriching Scholarship is a free, multi-day event held annually the first full week of May. Taking advantage of the remote nature of our collective work, this year, instructors from six institutions, including Miami University, Michigan State University, and the University of Minnesota will present on the ways their teaching… Read More »
Protect your data: Learn the best ways to protect yourself online through this new eLearning series
To help the Michigan Medicine community protect organizational and personal data, a new Cyber Safety Best Practices series was added to MLearning.
Registration for Hacks with Friends is open
Register today and make plans to participate in the 2021 Hacks with Friends (HWF) — a fun-filled event where you break out of your everyday work, join a team and collaborate to build a project (or hack) from scratch to show off in a competition! The 2021 HWF event will take place virtually over the course of the… Read More »
This month in EDUCAUSE
My name is Irene Knokh and I’m the EDUCAUSE ambassador for U-M. Starting this month, I will provide articles of interest, upcoming trends, and generally be your advocate for EDUCAUSE. Some EDUCAUSE highlights from March Best career advice for women in IT Have you ever said to yourself, “I wish I knew this or someone told me this?”… Read More »
Michigan IT Governance & CoP activities for March/April 2021
Get involved, share your knowledge, and mark your calendars for these professional development opportunities!
“Coded Bias” watch event; Join experts for panel discussion afterwards
You are invited to a free, on-demand screening of the documentary film Coded Bias—available anytime from April 8 to 14 and a panel discussion of the film April 15. Coded Bias explores the fallout from an MIT Media Lab researcher’s discovery that facial recognition does not identify dark-skinned faces and women’s faces accurately. The film follows her journey to push for the first legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms.
Extended Reality (XR) at Michigan 2021 Summit happens this April
This free virtual event will feature speakers from all over the country sharing their knowledge and insight around XR.
Michigan IT Governance & CoP activities for March 2021
Get involved, share your knowledge, and mark your calendars for these professional development opportunities!
2020 Symposium final report points to future virtual events
Driven by the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 Michigan IT Symposium was reenvisioned to capture major facets of past symposiums in an online delivery method, with minimal costs.
2021 Hacks with Friends call for proposals
Mark your calendars and make plans to participate in the 2021 Hacks with Friends in May. Deadline for proposals is Friday, March 12.
Women in IT Community of Practice: Promoting professional growth and community outreach
March is Women’s History Month! In recognition, Michigan IT News invited the Women in IT CoP to provide an overview of their organization and work.
On-campus to online: Michigan IT supports summer and special programs
Virtual outreach programs develop the next generation of Leaders and Best at U-M, as well as opportunities for the Michigan IT community to get involved.
Tech Tip: Toby
Toby’s drag-and-drop interface enables you to close tabs that you are not currently using, reducing memory usage on your computer.
Enriching Scholarship call for proposals
Hosted by U-M’s Teaching and Technology Collaborative, Enriching Scholarship focuses on the effective integration of technology and pedagogy.
Low-cost or free professional development
This month’s EDUCAUSE Review has an article by U-M’s Irene Knokh that lists many resources to improve your professional skills.
Buried by emails? Here are a few ways out
A survey conducted at Michigan Medicine determined that emails were a key factor in daily stress and burnout among faculty, staff, and learners. And while there’s no surefire way to prevent emails from arriving in your mailbox, you can learn a few tips that can help you manage them so they don’t become such a daily burden. At… Read More »
Have better virtual staff meetings
Zoom fatigue got you down? Experiment with these techniques for smoother, more productive, more interesting team meetings.