Drupal overview of a working site

Submitted by Tamara Adizes on August 17, 2010 - 12:06pm
Date: 
August 24, 2010 - 2:30pm
Location: 
Robarts Library, Room 4055 (CTSI computer classroom)
Presenter/Moderator: 
Daryl Weade

As discussed in the last UT DUG meeting, Daryl Weade will show the decisions made in implementing a series of Drupal installs to contain the new UTSC Centre for Teaching and Learning sites. Discussion will include site objectives, modules considered for best workflow/stability, and site design.

U of T hosts Kuali Student development leader

Submitted by Tamara Adizes on August 6, 2010 - 3:22pm

The CIO is pleased to announce the participation of Rajiv Kaushik as a new member of the Information + Technology Services (I+TS) team.

Rajiv Kaushik joined us on Tuesday, August 3rd in the role of Director, Kuali Student Development, under a partnership arrangement with the Kuali Foundation. Now based at U of T, Rajiv will continue to lead the Kuali Student product development team of about 40 staff distributed across universities in the US and Canada.

Dr. Avi Hyman appointed as Institutional Academic Technology Strategist

Submitted by Tamara Adizes on August 6, 2010 - 3:00pm

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Avi Hyman has been appointed to the position of Institutional Academic Technology Strategist at the University of Toronto, effective September 1, 2010. The Institutional Academic Technology Strategist (IATS) will report to both the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and the Director, Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation (CTSI) and will provide strategic and tactical leadership in the development and implementation of information technology services that support the academic mission.

Never Mind the Edupunks; or, The Great Web 2.0 Swindle

Submitted by Tamara Adizes on August 6, 2010 - 9:21am

by: BRIAN LAMB AND JIM GROOM - EDUCAUSE

Has the wave of the open web crested? What does "open educational technology" look like, and does it stand for anything?

http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Review/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazineVolume45/N...

Agile development at its best

Submitted by Tamara Adizes on August 5, 2010 - 11:36am

This is a great example of having a constructive and critical outlook on agile development. It goes to show, that an institution must be equally willing to push the envelope on innovation and as it is willing to pull the plug on doomed projects that waste valuable resources. I give kudos to Google for pulling the plug on Wave. Read the article below for more info.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wave.html

So you want to be a Mobile Developer: Lecture 1 Slides Posted!

Submitted by Michael Moncada on July 22, 2010 - 12:12pm

Hi everyone,

As promised, the slides have been posted. Thank you all for attending - and for those who could not attend (we missed you!) here are the slides so you can get an idea of what was covered. If you liked this lecture and are interested in the next installment (where we will cover some more advanced stuff) please rate this page and/or give us your feedback on what you want covered in the next lecture.

FYI - We will have Donuts for the next one we promise! (really, we promise!!!)

The First Digital Curation Institute Conference

Submitted by Kathleen on June 14, 2010 - 2:44pm
Date: 
June 16, 2010 (All day)
Location: 
140 St. George Street, Claude Bissell Building, Room 728
Presenter/Moderator: 
Andrew Wang

The Digital Curation Institute at the University of Toronto's iSchool provides a rich, interdisciplinary environment for investigating principles and theory building related to the creation, management, use, interpretation and preservation of digital resources; conducting research on digital curation issues; and developing technologies and tools to support best practice in this area. The DCI promotes innovative multi-faceted research projects that involve collaboration among faculty, students, practitioners, and researchers both national, and internationality.

Daryl Weade

Submitted by Tamara Adizes on August 17, 2010 - 11:57am

DrupalCon Copenhagen session - University of Kent details how they're getting ready to syndicate content

Submitted by patcon on June 29, 2010 - 3:14pm

Awesome to see what University of Kent is up to:
http://cph2010.drupal.org/sessions/kent-approach-drupal-awesomeness

Hopefully they post the video or audio for this session!

As for how U of T compares -- I think we're on the right track with events.utoronto.ca (at least as far as event content goes), but we perhaps need to do a better job of enforcing structure within event postings, providing more custom feeds (both calendar and rss), and creating a simple way for departmental sites to use these feeds to display their specific events.

UT DUG June Meetup

Submitted by Greg Mount on June 9, 2010 - 1:59pm
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Date: 
June 14, 2010 - 4:00pm
Location: 
43 Elm Street, downstairs, two blocks north of Dundas just east of Bay
Presenter/Moderator: 
Greg Mount

Join us for the June meetup of the University of Toronto Drupal Users Group. Please login and RSVP if you wish to attend.