**Cross posted on edmt592.ning.com**
I've noticed in the blog posts that several people in EDMT 592 have joined the classroom20.ning.com network. I noticed today that they have a LIVE event happening Monday, March 24th, at 9p. The event celebrates the network's one year birthday. An agenda and instructions for "attending" the event are posted.
Here's their description of the event:
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Monday, March 24th, at 6pm Pacific / 9pm Eastern / 2am GMT we'll be celebrating the one-year birthday party for Classroom 2.0 by having a "working party." Our goal--to set up a new volunteer host system, to say hi to as many new members as we can, and to look forward to the coming year of innovations in Web 2.0 / collaborative technologies in education. You'll have to provide your own refreshments for this party... :)
Thanks to Elluminate for providing us with our new hosting platform for these LIVE conversations. And a shout-out to Nate Lowell who figured out Monday, March 24th, was our first birthday!"
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I hope to be home from my son's wrestling banquet in time to join in. Maybe I'll see some of you online.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Friday, March 21, 2008
New EMU Email System
Some of you may have read that there is a committee currently working on identifying a new email/calendaring/collaboration tool to replace the ones included in my.emich. I've had the opportunity to participate in many of the meetings as an "unofficial" member.
The committee recently narrowed the choices down to two: Google Apps for Education (gmail) and Zimbra. Many of you are probably already familiar with Google Apps (gmail, calendar, Google Talk, etc.) but I suspect most of you have never heard of the Zimbra collaboration suite.
The committee plans to meet early next week to make a final recommendation. For anyone who has a few moments to spare this weekend, I would really be interested in your feedback on the Zimbra tool. It's easy to set up a demo account at:
http://www.zimbra.com/products/hosted_demo.php
The demo accounts come pre-populated with some email and calendar information to make it easier to get a feel for using the suite of applications. If you get a chance to check it out, please send me an email and let me know what you think. My demo account email address is:
221wa6bx@demo2.zimbra.com
The product also has some add-on tools to allow people to use Outlook (Windows) or the Mac OS suite of tools like Mac Mail, iCal, and Address Book. The Outlook add-on makes it work just like it was in a Microsoft Exchange environment.
Certainly I would also be interested in anyone's feedback on the Google Apps for Education suite, too (http://www.google.com/a/edu).
Thanks! All feedback will be welcome and I'll be sure to share it with the committee during their deliberations early next week.
The committee recently narrowed the choices down to two: Google Apps for Education (gmail) and Zimbra. Many of you are probably already familiar with Google Apps (gmail, calendar, Google Talk, etc.) but I suspect most of you have never heard of the Zimbra collaboration suite.
The committee plans to meet early next week to make a final recommendation. For anyone who has a few moments to spare this weekend, I would really be interested in your feedback on the Zimbra tool. It's easy to set up a demo account at:
http://www.zimbra.com/products/hosted_demo.php
The demo accounts come pre-populated with some email and calendar information to make it easier to get a feel for using the suite of applications. If you get a chance to check it out, please send me an email and let me know what you think. My demo account email address is:
221wa6bx@demo2.zimbra.com
The product also has some add-on tools to allow people to use Outlook (Windows) or the Mac OS suite of tools like Mac Mail, iCal, and Address Book. The Outlook add-on makes it work just like it was in a Microsoft Exchange environment.
Certainly I would also be interested in anyone's feedback on the Google Apps for Education suite, too (http://www.google.com/a/edu).
Thanks! All feedback will be welcome and I'll be sure to share it with the committee during their deliberations early next week.
del.icio.us links
Yes... I am just getting around to blogging about social bookmarking.
You would think a higher ed technology administrator would have used a tool like del.icio.us before, but I've just started using it during this class. I've enjoyed browsing the links that everyone has tagged with EDMT592. It's going to be very useful for completing the collaboration project.
You would think a higher ed technology administrator would have used a tool like del.icio.us before, but I've just started using it during this class. I've enjoyed browsing the links that everyone has tagged with EDMT592. It's going to be very useful for completing the collaboration project.
I'm back...
Yeah, I know... I've been MIA for a few weeks. I won't bore anyone with the details. Needless to say, I've got a bunch of catching up to do so I'll start with blogging about that fact.
I just got back from the Educause Midwest Regional Conference in Chicago on Wednesday. This is the same conference that Dr. McVey attended and emailed the EDMT592 class about. It was a great conference. (NOTE: I am SO GLAD that the snow happened after I returned versus hitting while our group from EMU was in Chicago. That wouldn't have been any fun!)
Hope everyone gets to enjoy a long weekend.
I just got back from the Educause Midwest Regional Conference in Chicago on Wednesday. This is the same conference that Dr. McVey attended and emailed the EDMT592 class about. It was a great conference. (NOTE: I am SO GLAD that the snow happened after I returned versus hitting while our group from EMU was in Chicago. That wouldn't have been any fun!)
Hope everyone gets to enjoy a long weekend.
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