- October 25, 2011
The 2011 AIKCU Technology Awards Winners were announced at Berea College on Friday, October 21, 2011 during the Fall IT Directors Meeting.
Related Links
- 2011 AIKCU Awards Nominees and Winners (PDF)
- 2011 AIKCU Technology Awards (AIKCU Web Site)
- September 5, 2011
Colleagues:
I wanted to give you a quick update on our progress toward completion of Berea’s new Production Studio. See the pictures below! We maintained steady momentum throughout the summer due to the diligence and teamwork of faculty and staff involved in this project. (more…)
- July 20, 2011
Colleagues:
I am writing to share some good news. With the assistance and support of the AC; we are taking an important step this fall to strengthen faculty advocacy for teaching and learning at Berea. This includes hiring a Director for Educational Technology and the establishment of a new Educational Technology unit on campus. This transition is a natural extension of Scenario D’s emphasis on Engaged and Transformative Learning and a direct response to numerous faculty discussions in the past year that included members of our Group of 30 along with those involved in last summer’s collective research on the scholarship of teaching/learning and high-impact educational practices. The new unit will consolidate three full-time staff with expertise in social media, virtual environments, digital media, cloud resources and constructivist pedagogy. (more…)
- April 28, 2011
Colleagues:
Our summer is shaping up to be a busy one as we have several key initiatives underway to enhance teaching and learning at Berea. High priority projects include completion of our new Digital Film Production Studio, full rollout of new campus video streaming services, expansion of our deployment of new classroom technologies, and media upgrades in the Alumni Center to promote student collaboration, learning, and communication. We will also hold a department retreat in May to complete the realignment of our IS&S operations to more closely reflect Scenario D’s emphasis on engaged and transformative learning. Attached is the budget breakdown for the Digital Film Production Studio. I am sharing this with you to give you a better understanding of the nature and scope of this effort. The $165,000 budget will be funded from three primary sources including contributions by our Academic Division, one-time sales of surplus technology, and I.T. capital reserves. (more…)
- March 23, 2011
Colleagues:
Berea On-Demand is a new video streaming service that will go live in Fall 2011 in conjunction with the new Digital Film Production Studio. This system will allow us to stream live content or on-demand content developed in the studio to support teaching and learning as well as cocurricular activities. (more…)
- February 16, 2011
Group of 30:
I thought you might enjoy reading the US News article listing the top 15 “Most Wired College Campuses”. Berea College is ranked 7. In the past few years we have made gains on many fronts. We protected our EDGE laptop program during budget realignments, deployed a robust virtual server/SAN infrastructure, added new technology labs and facilities to support teaching and learning and expanded wireless coverage across campus. With support from our senior officers, we have funding in place to move aggressively in the months ahead to deploy VOIP and upgrade classroom media technology across campus. Bill and I finished negotiations last week for internet service to the campus and a new contract was signed with Windstream that will double the bandwidth to our campus from 100 Mbps to 200 Mbps at a cost that will be less than our current contract. In addition, our new “BC – On Demand” video streaming service will be unveiled shortly as a feature of our new Digital Film Production Studio now under construction. (more…)
- February 3, 2011
Colleagues:
Work began this morning to convert the old phone center in Bruce Trades to our new Digital Film Production Studio. All interior walls, ceiling, and light fixtures are now being removed to prepare the space for the new facility. The temporary studio in Draper 311 is up and running to support instructional needs during spring semester. The permanent studio will support HD digital video creation using virtual sets and a green screen with separate production space, control room, and sound booth. The studio is designed to support our media studies curriculum, student generated digital content creation, lecture capture and much more. High-end graphics and video editing work can be performed in our new Applied Technology Labs set up last summer in the Library and Tech building. When video products are produced in the facility, our new VBrick video streaming system will house the content and make it available for “on-demand” viewing across campus. (more…)
- September 8, 2010
1. Berea Target’s Fall Semester to Complete Transition to Moodle
A total of 120 faculty have made the transition to Moodle and are managing 150 classes this fall semester on the new open source courseware product. In addition, 112 faculty completed an hour long training session on Moodle to gain familiarity with the new system. At the end of fall semester, Blackboard will no longer be supported on campus. Anthony Basham is working with the remaining 18 faculty that are using Blackboard this semester to facilitate the transition. Moodle is accessible through the myBerea portal and students accessing the portal automatically have single sign-on access to Moodle. This feature will be deployed soon for the faculty portal as well. Since Moodle is open source software, the College will save $15,000 annually. Beginning in spring semester, those savings will be used for faculty support and development in the integration of technology in the teaching and learning process. (more…)- June 18, 2010
Future Trends for Technology in Education
Presenters: John Lympany & Kevin Blankenship
- PowerPoint 2007 Presentation (1.89 MB)
- PowerPoint 2007 Zip Archive (includes all videos used in presentation) (256 MB)
