What is Wimba and why should I learn to use it?

With Wimba Classroom, Calvin College can:

• Significantly reduce our travel costs while boosting productivity
• Host web-based meetings with prospective students
• Bring in guest lecturers from around the globe
• Hold virtual committee and work group/departmental meetings; 400-500 people can attend simultaneously
• Record and offer our students links to recorded lectures, explanations, clarifications on assignments & more
• Offer virtual office hours, group study sessions and web-based tutoring
• Create and obtain professional development opportunities
• And much more!

Invest just 50 minutes in finding out how this set of technologies can help you collaborate with your students, peers, colleagues, friends and family members -- all via the Internet, and all for free.

Alumni Board Room -- in the Commons Annex
Tuesday, April 21st
12:10pm -- 12:50pm

Topics:

• What is the Wimba Classroom?
• Why should I care about it?
• What can I do with it?
• What do I need to get started using it?

Student drive mappings to change on June 17

On Wednesday, June 17, 2009, the letter mapping for student home accounts is changing from F:\ to H:\. This move will ONLY affect the drive mapping and not the file server the students access. The actual move to a new file server will occur at a later time.

History

Back in October, CIT started making changes to Calvin's Novell file server system. These changes affect where faculty, staff and students store and access their files. These changes:

• Make sharing files between people from different departments easier. We'll easily be able to create a secure folder just for you and your team. This might be 3 people or a committee of 20. This folder is stored on Denali in R:\teams
• All department common drives will be on the Denali (R:) file server. Granting access to multiple department common drives is simplified.
• Resolve the current conflict with USB or external drives.
• Help CIT manage the network.

CIT has already moved most administrative home and department drives to the new file structure and will be moving faculty home and department drives during the summer.

For more information please see Changes are coming from CIT