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Kellogg Faculty Orientation

• Instructional Technology at Kellogg
• Catherine Grimsted
• September 20, 2002

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Approach for Today

• Assumes general knowledge of web
• Focuses on demos of Kellogg tools for instruction
  
• Feel free to ask questions as we go along
• Faculty/Staff Intranet site
• www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/intranet/facstaff.htm
  
• Faculty/Staff Computing site
• www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/kis/fac_staff/

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Introductions

• New Faculty
• Faculty/Staff Computing
• Juan Geracaris, Manager PC Tech Support
• Kevin Ofloy, Manager Video/Classroom Services
• Chi Ng, Tech Support Rep
• Alex Millner, Tech Support Rep
• Research Computing
• Patricia Ledesma, Senior Research Associate
• Jim Guo, Research Associate
• KIS Staff Contact List
• www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/kis/about/abou_sta.ht
  m

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MBA Student Perspective

• Derek Yung, Student Government VP Technology
• Kellogg student skills and interests
• Approaches to instructional computing most
  helpful to students

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Kellogg Account

• NetID account and password
• Access to NU and Kellogg resources
• Change password every 120 days
• E-mail account
• Example format s-james_at_kellogg.northwestern.edu
• E-mail special functions forwarding, vacation
  message, replication
• Eudora software also web e-mail gateway
• UNIX and WRDS accounts for research computing on
  request

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Using Classroom Equipment - I

• Classrooms in Jacobs, Wieboldt, Allen Center are
  generally alike for ease of use (except as noted
  below)
• Classroom equipment
• Every room has video projector, VCR, laptop
  connection (for network, projector, sound),
  wireless microphone capability, speakers (for
  laptop, VCR, microphone), transparency overhead
  projector, and voice phone.
• Wireless microphone by default in Allen Center
  by request in Jacobs and Wieboldt
• Student connectivity
• Electric/network at every seat in selected
  classrooms
• Wireless network in all Jacobs and Allen Center
  classrooms

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Using Classroom Equipment - II

• Classroom laptop service in all buildings
• Can request to have a laptop brought for class,
  or can bring in own laptop
• Classroom laptop is IBM ThinkPad T22 or T23
  running Windows XP Pro and standard software
  configuration
• Delivered with diskette drive and external wired
  mouse by default
• DVD drive or wireless mouse by request
• Web-based Classroom Laptop Request System
• Methods to access your files in class
• Put files on your own laptop hard drive
• Post files to your course web directory (public
  access or not)
• Post files to your Kellogg NT home directory (H
  drive)
• As a backup, bring files on a disk

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Using Classroom Equipment - III

• Written instructions for equipment use and laptop
  hook-up are posted on AV closet door
• Happy to do tutorial in your own classroom
• Please call from classroom for help if needed
• Call phone number posted in the classroom
• Will radio to classroom staff immediately
• Brief demo of AV equipment.
• www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/kis/fac_staff/classro
  oms.htm

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Classroom Videoconferencing

• Can bring in virtual corporate speaker
• Portable equipment can be brought into any
  classroom in any building
• Utilize Internet completely or utilize gateway to
  convert from Internet to ISDN line at remote
  location
• Contact Kevin Ofloy two weeks in advance to
  coordinate testing with remote location

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Instructional Tools Agenda

• Class lists and student face book
• Faculty bios
• Faculty course web sites
• Using Kellogg NT network
• Discussion groups
• TeamNet peer evaluation
• Web surveys
• Video on the web
• Kellogg alumni search
• Text databases
• Quantitative databases

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Class Lists Student Face Book

• Class list by name, program
• Class list with photos and demographics
• E-mail class list for sending messages
• Export class list into Excel for grading
• View TeamNet participants
• Under Photos, search Student Face Book by single
  or many criteria
• www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/script_html/demogrph/

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Faculty Bios and Web Sites

• For information and options
• www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/kis/fit/
• Posting faculty bio and course syllabus required
• See your DA for assistance with this
• Web posting tools - easy point click interface
• Faculty Instructional Tools (FIT) - basic
• Blackboard - full featured
• Web authoring tools - design your own web pages
• Macromedia Dreamweaver
• Also Microsoft Word and Netscape Communicator

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Course Web Page Content

• Some Good Examples
• Petersen, Chopra, Besanko, Magee
• Syllabus, assignments, handouts, homework/test
  answers, data sets, supplemental readings, new
  information
• HTML text, PDF files, Word files, Excel files,
  PowerPoint files, Web links, discussion group

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Blackboard Web Sites

• Easy, point-and-click tool to create a
  full-featured course web site
• Functions post syllabus, create announcements,
  post handouts, put up web links, run course
  discussion, send out class-wide e-mails, run
  on-line surveys, deploy assignment drop box,
  provide grades on-line
• Student teams can create their own space to share
  team materials and run a team discussion.
• For degree programs
• http//courses.northwestern.edu
• For non-degree programs
• http//learning.kellogg.northwestern.edu

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Using Kellogg Network

• Your Kellogg network home directory (standard
  allocation of 200 MB)
• H drive, kis-nt3
• Your Web Server course materials directory
  (unlimited allocation for course use)
• W drive, kis-nt2
• Copying, saving, changing, deleting files on H
  and W drives
• Setting permissions on your directories

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Options for Web Permissions - I

• Kellogg Faculty/Course Web pages
• Access permissions can be granted to
• (1) public anonymous web user
• (2) only for certain Kellogg groups
• Faculty, Staff, Students, Alumni
• Kellogg Internal Faculty, Staff, Students
• (3) only individuals selected from Kellogg user
  list
• Default settings on your faculty web folders
• /htm/ folder defaults to public access
• /ftp/ folder defaults to Kellogg Internal access
• WARNING Web search engines turn up even unlinked
  files in your faculty web folders. Do not place
  confidential files here unless you first set
  permissions for complete privacy!
• www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/kis/docs/howto/networ
  k/NTpermissions

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Options for Web Permissions - II

• Blackboard
• Access permissions can be granted to
• Exclusively class members, faculty member, and
  teaching assistants. This is the default setting
  in Blackboard. Other faculty/students at Kellogg
  or NU can also be granted access on a case by
  case basis
• All NU faculty and students. You can change
  specific areas of your site to this setting
  yourself, via your Blackboard course control
  panel. Note, however, that only class members,
  faculty member, and teaching assistants can use
  the personal communication tools

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Discussion Groups

• Asynchronous multi-way discussions
• Read and post messages
• Include attachments and URLs
• Electronic, collective office hours
• Embed link on your course web page
• WebBoard or Blackboard
• www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/kis/discuss

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Discussion Group Options

• Blackboard
• Only if using for overall course web site
• Discussion for classes and study groups
• Access must be restricted to registered students
• WebBoard
• Discussion for classes and clubs
• Students can read and reply to new postings via
  e-mail instead of the web, at their personal
  option
• Access must be restricted to Kellogg students,
  faculty, staff

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TeamNet

• Designed by Management and Organizations faculty
  and GMA leaders to enable students to receive
  peer feedback on their work in teams
• Students enter ratings for teammates on 10
  aspects of effective teamwork (anonymously)
• Students view results of rating statistics for
  themselves
• Require or encourage use by your students
• Check participation via Class Lists
• TeamNet link from Faculty/Staff Intranet
• TeamNet FAQs and Demonstration
• https//www1.kellogg.northwestern.edu/teamnet/team
  netcover.asp

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Web Surveys

• Cogix ViewsFlash server
• Students can carry out a survey project
• Faculty can create a quick web survey of
  students, using just a web browser interface
• Tally results automatically on the web or export
  data to Excel, SPSS, etc.
• www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/kis/viewsflash/

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Video on the Web

• Post video to your Faculty Course Web site
• Can request videotaping of prominent guest
  speaker in your class
• Post videos to your web site - guest speaker
  videos, commercial videos under fair use policy
• Can restrict access to Kellogg faculty, staff,
  students, alumni as desired
• Example speaker videos
• www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/news/video

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Kellogg Alumni Search

• Search by single or many criteria
• Name
• Employer
• Location/address
• Class year
• Degree program
• www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/alumni/services/direc
  tory.htm

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Text Databases for MBAs

• Key sources include
• Lexis Nexis/Academic Universe
• ABI/Inform
• Dow Jones Interactive
• Investext
• Business Industry Database
• ISI Emerging Markets
• Nearly all web-based
• Use VPN or proxy server to access with
  NetID/password if not directly on NU network
• Consulting and classes offered for faculty and
  MBA students by NU Library Management Reference
  Librarian, Jeannette Moss, j-moss_at_northwestern.edu
  
• www.library.northwestern.edu/reference/kgsm/

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Quantitative Databases for MBAs

• Key Sources include
• Bloomberg
• Compustat
• CRSP
• Datastream
• DRI Basic
• Generally accessible via Kellogg computer lab
  workstations or WRDS web interface
• Request assistance from Patricia Ledesma to
  prepare materials for MBA curriculum use but
  classes for MBA students need to be offered by
  faculty or by PhD TAs
• www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/researchcomputing/

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Research Computing Resources

• SUN Unix server for research only (skew3)
• Windows NT computer network resources
• Software applications and quantitative datasets
• Set up a personal appointment with Patricia
  Ledesma to get oriented regarding your particular
  research area
• PhD Research Computing orientation handout
• Research Computing site has full information
• www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/researchcomputing/

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Additional Tools for Students - I

• Kellogg Laptop Program
• IBM ThinkPad T23 with custom software
• All Full-time and EMP students
• Standard software in use at Kellogg laptops and
  labs
• Windows XP Professional, Office XP Professional,
  Eudora Pro 5.1, Internet Explorer 6.0, Macromedia
  Dreamweaver MX, Meeting Maker 7.1, Adobe Acrobat
  Reader 5.0, Norton AntiVirus Corporate 7.6,
  Netscape Navigator 6.2 , Quick Time Player 5.0.2,
  RealOne Player 6.0, Windows MediaPlayer for XP
• Kellogg Computer Labs
• Jacobs, Wieboldt, McManus
• Specialized software in labs includes
• _at_Risk, Adobe Acrobat, Bloomberg, Datastream,
  Equity Analysis Tool, Matlab, Scientific
  Workplace, Stata, Style Advisor, SPSS, Xwin32
• www.kellogg.nwu.edu/kis/fac_staff/public_machines.
  htm

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Additional Tools for Students - II

• Intranets for Full-time, TMP and EMP students
• www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/intranet/
• On-Line Prep Courses
• Math
• Accounting
• Microeconomics
• Statistics
• Course Selection Materials
• Course catalog and course schedule
• Faculty bios and course web pages
• TCEs - Teacher/Course Evaluation Scores
• Course bidding statistics history
• Faculty Publication System
• Required entry by full-time faculty in winter of
  each year can enter/change at any time at your
  option

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Technology Training for Students

• TEKcamp
• Full-time students 2 days
• TMP, EMP, PhD students 1/2 day
• Course materials on TEKcamp web site
• www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/kis/training/tekcamp
• Ongoing TEKclasses
• Can coordinate offerings with faculty/class by
  special request
• www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/kis/training/tekcamp/
  ongoing/classes.htm

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Network Access from Home

• Modem access
• High speed access
• Cable modem versus DSL line
• Virtual Private Network for desktop and laptop
• Netswitcher for laptop
• www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/kis/highspeed/
• Logging onto NT network and accessing your office
  computer hard drive from home

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Faculty Instructional Computing Committee

• Ask for advice and provide input to committee
  members in your department
• Sri Sridharan, Linda Vincent
• Bob McDonald, Mitchell Petersen (Chair)
• David Besanko, Mark Satterthwaite
• Philipp Afeche, Jan Van Mieghem
• Anne Coughlan, Brian Sternthal
• Keith Murnighan, Peter Murmann

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Faculty Research Computing Committee

• Ask for advice and provide input to committee
  members in your department
• Steve Hillegeist, Tom Lys, Bob Magee, Beverly
  Walther
• Kent Daniel, Kathleen Hagerty, Bob Korajczyk
  (Chair), Bob McDonald
• Shane Greenstein, Mike Mazzeo
• Karl Schmedders, Sevin Yeltekin
• Alex Chernev, Vincent Nijs, Lakshman
  Krishnamurthi
• Ed Zajac

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Sources for Assistance

• For more detailed information via the web
• Faculty/Staff Intranet and Faculty/Staff
  Computing
• For accounts, network, technical support, faculty
  instructional tools
• Place on-line tech support service request
• Reaches Juan Geracaris, Alex Millner, and Chi Ng
• For classroom tutorial, videoconferencing,
  videotaping, and video on the web - Kevin Ofloy
• For classroom laptop service and other special
  requests - Place on-line laptop service request
• For research computing - Patricia Ledesma, Jim Guo

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Wrap Up

• Thank you
• Any other questions?
• Again, welcome to Kellogg!