http://blog.umt.edu/itcommunity IT Communications Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:29:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In his State of the University address today, President Dennison shared his to-do list for the campus community. Among his assignments was to redesign the UM homepage. You can almost mark that task off the list. After months of planning and design, a subgroup of the UM web committee unveiled the next version ... http://blog.umt.edu/itcommunity/2008/08/22/the-next-um-homepage/ My Little League baseball coach was a good communicator. On the first day of practice, he told us we were going to use the "KISS principle" for our signs. He meant we were going to "Keep It Simple, Stupid." "If I touch my skin," coach Redpath told us, "that means steal. ... http://blog.umt.edu/itcommunity/2008/08/07/kiss-me-please/ I occassionally hear from people on campus that they are reading the IT Community blog. That's encouraging. But when we started this endeavor, I had hoped there would be more dialogue and sharing of ideas that would help us do a better job of fulfilling the University's mission. So, today I'm ... http://blog.umt.edu/itcommunity/2008/08/05/theres-a-better-way/ You might think that few people in Grizzlyville would support a team that has lost 21 of 26 games. But losses don't keep fans away from Osprey baseball games. I attended my sixth game of the season Saturday before witnessing a win. More than 2,000 others shared in cheering the ... http://blog.umt.edu/itcommunity/2008/07/14/the-ol-ballgame/ A man and his son are in a car crash. The man is killed and the son is taken to hospital gravely injured. When he gets there, the surgeon says "I can't operate on this boy- he is my son!" How is this possible? (Answer somewhere below. I'm not telling ... http://blog.umt.edu/itcommunity/2008/06/25/lateral-thinking/ As we welcome our first group of students and parents to orientation today, a conversation is taking place in the Educause portal forum about providing parent access to student data through campus portals. Gettysburg College, Iowa State, the University of Arizona and the Pennsylvania College of Technology all shared how they ... http://blog.umt.edu/itcommunity/2008/06/11/paying-attention-to-parents/ http://blog.umt.edu/itcommunity/2008/06/02/generation-gap/ The latest edition to UM's blogoshere is getting some good traffic. Cycle the Rockies is a blog following the journey of nine students, two instructors and two documentary film-makers who are biking from Billings to Whitefish while exploring energy issues in Montana. The Billings Gazette did a story on the adventure ... http://blog.umt.edu/itcommunity/2008/05/30/blogs-rolling-along/ Lately there has been some discussion about saving energy by shutting down computers at night. Some have said that computers go into "Sleep Mode" or "Hibernation" and thereby save lots of energy. This is a good thing right? That depends upon whom you ask. According to a website called greendaily.com, ... http://blog.umt.edu/itcommunity/2008/05/19/shut-down-those-computers-save-energy/ No, this is not another post about technology saving fuels; this is a look at how technology is becoming common place in our society to the point of replacing butane lighters... ...in the glory days of rock 'n roll musicians would gaze upon the warm glow of happy faces softly silhouetted ... http://blog.umt.edu/itcommunity/2008/05/12/technology-is-the-new-butane/