The 2015/16 session of the Student Technology Advisory Committee is currently being scheduled, and nominations are sought from student governments for open positions. This year we will be continuing our planning around student email and collaboration systems. We will also be focusing on IT in the classroom and informal learning spaces around the university.

If you have additional topics you would like to see discussed at STAC this year, or have any questions about this organization, please contact me at chrismillet at psu.edu.

Our February STAC meeting is tomorrow in 111 HUB from 3-4:30. I have invited John Corro from ITS Security Operations Services to share some really important information with you. Some issues that we want to get on your radar screens as you have conversation with other members of student government and with students in general. Also, I am hoping that @Rishi Mittal can provide us with a bit of a drill down on some of the details related to student mobile app needs and desires. That is a topic from our review of your list of issues we discussed last time.

Our agenda for tomorrow’s STAC meeting from 3-4:30 in HUB 111:

• Discussion of FACAC summary report – John Harwood
• Altoona Data Breach – Kevin Morooney
• Potential for creating STAC-like committees at the commonwealth campuses – Phil Hromanik
• Feedback regarding the emergency texting service – Phil Hromanik
• STAC agendas going forward – Kevin Morooney

Hi all … hard to believe the semester is coming to a close. The agenda for our meeting tomorrow from 3 PM until 4:30 PM in HUB 111 is as follows:

1. Review of the ANGEL Mobile pilot this spring — Terry O’Heron
2. Discussion of the big issues from the 2012 FACAC survey — John Harwood
3. Discussion of music sharing and the history of IT engagement — Kevin Morooney

Hi all … we were going to spend time discussing several mobile initiatives and gathering feedback on where our mobile strategy should be headed, but key ITS staff are traveling this week so we will push that to December. In addition to those conversations, we will have an overview of the IT Strategic Planning process from Associate Vice Provost Kevin Moorney and a discussion of the FACAC Student Survey results from Dr. John Harwood. Looking forward to seeing each of you tomorrow at 3 PM in 111 HUB.

Strategic Planning check up — All responses in yammer by close of the day next Wednesday October 24, 2012.

Introductions and overview of the STAC for guests.

Chris Lucas and Nathan Cullier outlining ITS Training Services.  Focus is on the Student Tech Tutors program.  Highlights:

– average consultations are 32 minutes
– in Knowledge Commons (84% of consultations), Pollock, Electronic (via the email address that originally was designed for getting information about applying for a job)
– Fills the gap for software support — not tech support or media support
– Top 5 — Excel, ANGEL, MT, Photoshop, Word, PPT
– Spreading the word … at the moment it is coming via word of mouth, through popular classes, facebook, twitter, yammer, signage, custom business cards
– Currently thinking about how we would extend this service to the campuses

Ideas for Promotion

– Email a single PPT to faculty in various colleges
– Use adobe connect to do virtual office hours
– student news wire
– walk through of high traffic labs

Chris Stubbs

EGC Overview

– Findley 6A
– Faculty can teach in the lab
– Faculty and students can simply use the lab for entertainment purposes
– Faculty can do research in the lab
– The EGC does build games
– ECON U — http://play.gamining.psu.edu/econu/game/game.php
– Work with faculty at all campuses

Ideas for Growth

– Work with faculty to integrate game-like elements into courses
– Pay attention to Lion Tutors to identify the “worst and most difficult” courses
– Target the gatekeeper courses
– http://gaming.psu.edu

WordPress at Penn State

http://sites.psu.edu

– Replacement for blogs.psu.edu
– Simple site creation
– dozens of pre designed templates
– Over 1300 sites already hosted at sites.psu.edu

Hi all … looking forward to seeing everyone for tomorrow’s STAC meeting. Our meeting will be in 118 Wagner from 3:00-4:30. Our agenda will be primarily updates about three very student-centric services that you may not know about. Both the Student Tech Tutors program and the WordPress at PSU services are new this year, while the Educational Gaming Commons is something you may want to know more about. My hope is that we can have a general discussion about how we make more students aware of these services and services like these.

• Tech Tutors Program Update and Discussion — Chris Lucas
• Educational Gaming Commons and Econ U — Chris Stubbs
• WordPress at PSU sites.psu.edu — Brad Kozlek and Kate Miffet