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Dave and I watched a webinar today called "IPv4 Depletion and Migration to IPv6". It was put on jointly by Educause and ARIN (the American Registry for Internet Numbers, they're the ones that assign IP addresses to organizations and companies in North America).

On June 2nd-4th, I attended a NITLE event for Instructional Technologists. The conference gave me a chance to interact with peers from 37 liberal arts colleges. Our first task was to try to define the professional identity of instructional technologists. These engaging discussions gave me a better sense of the priorities and organizational structures that drive academic technology at other institutions.

Greg Vanney and I attended three days of training in Fairfax, VA for Advanced ActiveCampus CMS June 10-12. The training covered a number of topics including: creating new content types, creating and modifying .css and .xslts for new content types, user submitted content and its applications, enabaling JavaScripts on AC pages, Email Management,and much, much more. The final day was reserved for a hands-on workshop. The training, though light on documentation, was informative and worthwhile.

Upcoming Dates

• June 13 (Friday) Internal LIS Annual Reports Due
• June 16 (Monday) Norse Apps Training Demo – 11:00 am
• June 18 (Wednesday) Norse Apps Training – morning
• June 23 (Monday) Windows Vista Demo – 11:00 am
• June 25 (Wednesday) Windows Vista Training – 10:45 am
• June 26 (Thursday) KATIE Moodle Open Workshop – 9:00 am
• June 30 (Monday) Norse Apps Training Demo – 11:00 am
• More information on upcoming training opportunities: http://lis.luther.edu/learn

Headline of the Week: The Flood

It’s been a wet week here in LIS as with most other places in Iowa.

Summary of the project and work request time recorded in TrackIt for the Application Development team by business unit for academic year 2007-08 (June 1, 2007-May 31, 2008)

Come to the Mott Room on Monday, June 23rd, 11:00 a.m. - noon to see Windows Vista in action. Windows Vista is the latest version of Microsoft's operating system, after Windows XP, and is being installed on faculty and staff computers as of June 1, 2008. To gain hands-on experience using Windows Vista, attend the Wednesday, June 25th training session in the Olin RTR from 10:45 a.m. - noon. Contact the LIS Technology Help Desk to make a reservation. More at http://lis.luther.edu/learn.

Power has been restored. The Network on the second floor of the Union is now back up.

Facilities will be repairing power to the Union this evening at 7PM. To make their repairs they will shut off power to the union. This will mean that there will be no network service in the union while they are making their repairs.

As part of a planned power outage (but with only a few minutes of advanced notice to us) for a portion of the union, the network is down for the entire 2 nd floor of the Union. The power outage is expected to last 1 to 1.5 hours. Once power is back on, network service will be back on. The rest of the union network remains functional.

Power has been restored to our network closet near Rm 218. This restores network service to the offices in that area of the building and those off the front lobby area of the building. We also now have power to our switches located in what has been called the rock room (but must need a new name since it has a new cement floor now). That restores network service to the training room and laundry room areas of the building.

Network service to the rest of the building and the legends center remains off.

Update 6/13/08: All network service in the Regents Center is now functional.