| April, 2007 VIDEO Progress in Updating to Tandberg Units in the METNET Region
We are working to bring all the technicians and schedulers together along with Bill, Lee, and Jo Anne to Inver Hills Community College on May 22nd, 2007 from 10 AM to 2 PM. We may also have all the same people from the COMET region attending as well. Dot Vogel from Inver Hills is helping to coordinate this venture. We will have a Tandberg 3000 MXP installed and running so everyone can have a look at it and see how easy it is to use. By the meeting date we will have a better understanding on the number of units that will be replaced and the order in which they are installed. If there are any other ideas on what we can go over at this meeting please feel free to contact either Dot at Inver Hills (dvogel@inverhills.edu) or Bill ( bill.erickson@southcentral.edu) and we will try to work it in. We are trying to contact people from each school who are either video technicians or schedulers. Anyone who serves in either role who has not yet been contacted should e-mail Bill at bill.erickson@southcentral.edu.
Video Conferences to Iraq
Many of you may have seen news coverage of recent wedding ceremonies conducted via video between the National Guard Armory in Inver Grove Heights and bases in Iraq. We want to take this opportunity to remind people that most of the COMET/METNET sites have agreed to allow the use of their ITV rooms (without charge) for video conferences between MN and military personnel in Iraq. Most of the rooms are not large enough to accommodate a wedding but are just right to provide a chance to see and hear your loved ones who are far away. The Freedom Calls Foundation has videoconferencing equipment at three bases in Iraq at this time (Al Asad Air Base, Camp Fallujah and Taji). Anyone wanting more information regarding scheduling a videoconference should contact Lee Sutton, COMET/METNET Regional scheduler at 507-389-7405 or Lee.Sutton@southcentral.edu .
Video Conferencing
211 Meetings were conducted via IP in March.
E-MAIL E-mail Hint
We frequently get e-mail messages and phone calls from METNET account owners requesting password changes. Because we cannot verify the identification of the caller it is not possible to help them. Please encourage account owners to establish their Password Security Hint question. If they forget their password this will allow them to access the accounts and reset their own password. This can be done in one of two ways:
New accounts - at the time their account is activated
Activated accounts - go to the following web page https://www.metnet.edu/accounts. Login will be prompted.
ONLINE LEARNING Breeze (Connect) Services
The use of this tool for web conferencing and publishing of presentations to the web continues to increase. Following are usage statistics.
Fall Semester: 384 Meetings 182 Recorded sessions 166 Published Presentations
January 2007: 78 Meetings 53 Recorded sessions 16 Published Presentations
February 2007: 165 Meetings 93 Recorded sessions 28 Published Presentations
March 2007: 128 Meetings 77 Recorded sessions 5 Published Presentations
Accounts are available to faculty and staff within the COMET and METNET regions. For more information please go to the Get Connect page on the web at http://breeze.metnet.edu/get_connect/index.html
STAFF NEWS
Terry Kolomeychuk, the COMET-METNET Director is leaving to take a position as the eLearning project manager with the Northern Ontario School of Medicine at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. (http://www.normed.ca/) The position is responsible for the managing and coordination of all projects related to the delivery and operation of their eLearning Unit. The Northern Ontario School of Medicine is a new school, with only its second intake of students this year. It is located on two campuses, one in Thunder Bay and one in Sudbury. The prime goal of the school is to train doctors for work in rural and remote areas of Northern Ontario. Terry's last day with COMET-METNET will be Friday, April 13, 2007. Terry would like to say thanks to everyone for all the assistance and support he has received throughout the years. It was a difficult decision but this is an opportunity to return to his Canadian homeland.
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