IT Director for the Purdue University College of Education

IT Director for the Purdue University College of Education

Emergency Preparedness Video: Shots Fired on Campus Video

Below an article from the SecurePurdue web site that includes a link to a video:

http://www.purdue.edu/securePurdue/news/2010/emergency-preparedness-shots-fired-on-campus-video.cfm

“Shots Fired on Campus: When Lightning Strikes,” is a 20-minute video that illustrates what to look for and how to prepare and react, said Carol Shelby, senior director of environmental health and public safety. The video is available online at https://www.purdue.edu/securepurdue/police/video. A Purdue career account and password are necessary to log on to view the video. Its release to the Purdue community coincides with National Emergency Preparedness Month.

“This video stresses awareness, preparation and rehearsal, the keys to safety,” Shelby said. “Students, faculty and staff can take the training on their own and access it anytime they want, but some professors also may want to play it in their classrooms.”

The video was produced by the Center for Personal Protection and Safety, based in Spokane, Wash., and is being shown at several college campuses around the nation, Shelby said. The center is composed of former U.S. Department of Defense and FBI officials and is dedicated to researching and disseminating best practices in workplace violence prevention and travel safety. It is responsible for much of the federal government’s current teaching and training on crisis negotiations, workplace violence, abduction prevention and hostage survival situations.

Shelby said Purdue linked with the center through the university’s participation in the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Agencies, an organization involved in safety and security on college campuses.

The Video:

https://www.purdue.edu/securepurdue/police/video

The Transcript:

http://www.purdue.edu/securePurdue/download.cfm?File=media/SFOC_Final_Transcript.pdf

Socrative App Review

The following is an App review from one of our Purdue College of Education faculty members:

Socrative

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“Socrative is a smart student response system (‘clicker’) that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets. Students ‘BYOD’ (bring their own device) to use as the ‘clicker’. Teachers login through their device and select an activity which controls the flow of questions and games. Students simply login with their device and interact in real time with the content: quizzes, short answer, polls, T/F, review games, etc. Student responses are visually represented for multiple choice, true/false and short answer questions. For pre-planned activities a teacher can view reports online as a Google spreadsheet or as an emailed Excel file. I use Socrative as a formative/comprehension in ECON 21900 and as a review game.”

— Prof. Phillip VanFossen

Links:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/student-clicker-socrative/id477618130?mt=8

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.socrative.student&hl=en

How To Connect A Computer To The BRNG 6104 Sharp Touch Panels

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There is a public computer in the room that is pre-connected to the Touch Panel on the east wall.  Anybody with a Purdue Career Account can log into this computer.

A personal laptop can be connected to the Touch Panel on the west wall.  Instructions for how to connect a laptop can be found in the PDF document here:

http://edit.education.purdue.edu/download2/BRNG-6104-Touch-Panels.pdf

Once you have the software and drivers installed, you can begin using the Touch Panels with a laptop.  Windows 8 laptops do not require installing any software.

For Windows users: once you install the “Pen Software,” you can use the PenSoftware whiteboard application to draw on the screen and then save your whiteboards as a PDF or as an image file to a flash drive or your laptop.

For Mac users: you can install and use the free GIMP software that is included on the flash drive in the room.  GIMP is basically a free open-source graphical editing program for both Mac and PC.  It will enable you to draw on the screen with the Pen that is provided with the Touch Panel and save your drawings in a variety of file formats to a flash drive or your laptop.  GIMP can be downloaded here:

GIMP for Mac – http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/Download.html

GIMP for Windows – http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html

Please be sure to leave the pens and flash drives in the room when you are finished using them.

If you would like assistance pre-configuring your laptop with software, the Education IT team would be happy to assist: edit@purdue.edu

–Education IT

Camtasia Campus License

Mac and PC versions of both Camtasia and Snag-It are available for office and home use by Purdue faculty and staff (all campuses).  Graduate and undergrad students are licensed to use them on Purdue-owned computers only.

Additional info including links to download Camtasia can be found here:

Camtasia

Determine your Exchange mailbox size and quota

There are a few different ways to determine how much space you have available on the Exchange server.  The Exchange server includes your email, calendar, tasks, etc.

1. If you’re using a PC / Windows, do the following…

  1. Go to the “File” tab and look for the section in the middle called “Mailbox Cleanup.”  There you will see a graph showing the amount of space you are using on the Exchange server, along with numbers showing the amount of MB’s free and the total amount of MB’s available:
    On a PC Outlook 2010-4
  2. You can also right-click the top-most folder (usually your name or email address) in the Outlook folder list and select “Data File Properties” and then click the “Folder Size” button on the General tab.  Then click the “Server Data” tab to view the size of your Exchange account on the server (not that this can take a minute or two to calculate).

2. If you’re using a Mac, do the following…

  1. In Outlook 2011 for Mac, you will need right-click, or ctrl-click, a folder in the folder list and select “Folder Properties.”  Then click the “Storage” tab to view the size of that folder.  Unfortunately, there is no way within Outlook 2011 to see a storage summary of your entire Exchange account, so you’ll need to cick each folder individually and add the amount of space used by each (i.e. Inbox, Sent Items, Trash, Calendar, Tasks, etc.).Mac Outlook 2011 Inbox Properties Bob Evans

    Mac Outlook 2011 Folder Sizes Bob Evans

3. If you’re using a web browser, do the following…  (Mac users may find this method easier)

  1. Log into the Exchange web portal:  https://owa.purdue.edu
  2. Hover the mouse over your name in the top left and the mailbox size and quota details will appear:
    On a PC in OWA 07-30-2013 9-57-09 AMOn a Mac in OWA    

Hope this helps.  Happy emailing!

— Education IT