May 20, 2013

New employee in Online Education Support

Please help me welcome Qing Zhang to Washburn as a new employee in Online Education Support. Qing will fill the Online Education Support Specialist II position.

Qing Zhang Online Education Support Specialist II at WashburnHer primary responsibilities will be support of faculty, students, and staff in the use of Desire2Learn and Respondus; as well as assisting Marc Routsong, Online Education Support Coordinator; in the administrative functions of Desire2Learn.
Qing has a Master of Science degree in Instructional Design and Technology from Emporia State University. She has extensive experience presenting at conferences on topics such as: Integrating Digital Tools into the Classroom, Teaching and Learning with Mobile Devices,and Using Google SketchUp in Teaching and Learning. Qing was also a graduate teaching assistant at Emporia, co-teaching courses such as Advanced Instructional Technology for Educators and Technology in the Classroom.
Qing will start at Washburn tomorrow. Help us welcome Qing to Washburn. We are excited to have her join our staff!

Qing Zhang -Online Education Support Specialist II
Henderson Learning Resource Center-room 3A
qing.zhang@washburn.edu
785-670-2381

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May 13, 2013

Norm Koester’s retirement video

If you missed the retirement reception for Norm Koester on Friday, May 10th you still have a few days (until Wed., May 15th) to wish him well! See what other Washburn, ITS employees have to say about Norm!

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May 10, 2013

New Guest Wireless Network

On Tuesday, May 14th ITS will begin activating a new wireless network for guest users.  The wireless network will show up as WUGuest and will be open to anyone for Internet access without requiring special provisioning by ITS staff. This guest network will have some important limitations and is intended to provide access the most [...]

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May 9, 2013

Norm Koester retirement reception

Norm Koester ITS Electronics Technician

Norm Koester has worked at Washburn University as an Electronics Technician for the past 25 years and will retire this month!  Norm’s last day at Washburn will be May 15th, 2013.  We will have a  retirement reception for Norm and hope that you will be able to stop by and wish him well as he transitions into retirement! Norm Koester [...]

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May 8, 2013

Name change to WUPublic wireless August 1st

ITS will be renaming the WUPublic wireless network to WUCampus at the same time as our annual purge of wireless device registrations on August 1st. We’re doing this to reduce confusion between the new WUGuest wireless network and WUPublic. No other changes to that network are planned at this time, nor will we be making [...]

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May 6, 2013

Office 2013 Evaluation with Deployment for Fall 2013

Microsoft has released a new version of the Office suite.  Over the course of the summer, we will be evaluating when we should migrate to the new version.  The new version is 2013 and while it has a lot of the same features, the user interface has been updated. The new version has already shown up [...]

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March 20, 2013

Windows 7 and Searching Files Tip

Folder Options > Search Options Tab

A quick tip for searching for files in Windows 7.  This applies to campus computers or your Windows 7 computer at home. If you are like me, I have a lot of files and sometimes need to find a file with a specific phrase in the document.  By default, Windows 7 searches for your search phrase by [...]

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March 18, 2013

Internet Explorer 9 Rolled Out to Campus

Over the weekend, we installed Internet Explorer 9 on all campus computers running Windows 7.  We had been running version 8 for the past few years due to some Washburn web sites not supporting the newer version.  Those issues have been resolved and we were able to go to the current version.  The upgrade to [...]

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March 5, 2013

Savin Toner Sales Scam

We’ve received reports of people receiving calls from a company that identifies itself as “Interstate” trying to convince people that they need to order new toner for Savin printers through them. This is a repeat of a very old scam, what’s interesting in this case the callers seem to know a great deal about the [...]

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February 8, 2013

MOOCs, the new Buzz in Education?

I was recently in a meeting where MOOCs were discussed and I found a few individuals who were not aware of this new phenomenon. Never heard of a MOOC?  Nope, it’s not a cow with a cold… it stands for Massively Open Online Course (MOOC).    Still confused?  You’re not alone. Massive – targeting large numbers [...]

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