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Kellogg Faculty Orientation

• Instructional Technology at Kellogg
• Catherine Grimsted
• September 18, 2003

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Approach for Today

• Focuses on demos of Kellogg tools for instruction
  
• Feel free to ask questions as we go along
• Navigate to these resources from
• Faculty/Staff Intranet site, or
• 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
• Dan Rebac, Manager Tech Support
• Kevin Ofloy, Manager Video/Classroom Services
• Alex Millner, Tech Support Rep
• Chi Ng, Tech Support Rep
• Faculty/Staff Department Reps List
• www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/kis/fac_staff/dept_as
  sg.htm
• 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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Kellogg Account

• NetID account and password
• Access to NU and Kellogg resources
• Change password every 120 days
• E-mail account
• Format example s-james_at_kellogg.northwestern.edu
• E-mail special functions forwarding, vacation
  message, replication
• Eudora is standard email client for faculty/staff
• May choose to use Outlook as email client instead
  of Eudora
• Email is via UNIX server, not Exchange server
• May also use web e-mail gateway when traveling
• UNIX and WRDS accounts for research computing on
  request

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Kellogg Network Access

• Wired access in your office and at classroom
  podium
• Wireless access in all student areas including
  classrooms
• www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/kis/wireless/
• Modem access from off-campus
• www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/kis/equip/equi_mod.ht
  m
• High speed access from home
• Cable modem versus DSL line
• Use Virtual Private Network for desktop and
  laptop
• www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/kis/highspeed/
• Logging onto Kellogg network and accessing your
  office computer hard drive from home

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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
• Selected rooms have podium control panel for the
  room
• Pilot for potential school-wide rollout next
  summer
• Student connectivity
• Electric/network at every seat in selected
  classrooms
• Wireless network in all Jacobs, Wieboldt, 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 T40 or T23
  running Windows XP Pro and standard software
  configuration
• Delivered with DVD drive and external wired mouse
• Diskette drive, zip 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 network home directory
  (H drive)
• As a backup, bring files on a diskette or CD

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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 network
• Discussion groups
• TeamNet peer evaluation
• Web surveys
• Video on the web
• 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
• 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 custom web
  pages
• Recommend Macromedia Dreamweaver or Microsoft
  Word
• Request Dreamweaver installation and assistance
  from your departments technical support
  representative
• KIS How To documents on Dreamweaver
• www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/kis/docs/howto/softwa
  re/webauthoring/dreamweaver.htm

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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
• PDF files, Word files, Excel files, PowerPoint
  files, Web links, HTML text, discussion groups,
  video files

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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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Web Permissions on Custom Faculty Web Sites

• Custom Faculty Web sites
• Default settings on your faculty web folders
• /htm/ folder defaults to public access
• /ftp/ folder defaults to Kellogg Internal access
• You can change web permissions within your
  custom faculty web site to allow access by
• Public anonymous web user
• Only restricted Kellogg groups
• Faculty, Staff, Students, Alumni
• Kellogg Internal Faculty, Staff, Students
• Only specific individuals selected from Kellogg
  user list
• For detailed instructions on setting permissions
• www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/kis/docs/howto/networ
  k/NTpermissions/facultyweb.htm
• WARNING Web search engines turn up even unlinked
  files in your faculty web folders. Never place
  confidential files on the web server unless you
  first set folder permissions for complete privacy!

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Web Permissions on Blackboard

• Blackboard web sites
• 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

• Web-based survey tools
• Students can carry out a survey project for class
• Faculty can create a quick web survey of
  students, via web browser interface
• Tally results automatically on the web or export
  data to Excel, SPSS, Stata, etc.
• Options
• Cogix ViewsFlash on Kellogg network
• Allows NetID/password authentication
• www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/kis/viewsflash/
• Surveypro.com license on vendors web site
• Available beginning this fall license coming
• Does not allow NetID/password authentication, but
  more advanced capabilities for branching and
  survey layout
• www.surveypro.com

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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
• Gartner
• 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

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

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Student Computing Environment

• Kellogg Laptop Program
• IBM ThinkPad T40 with custom software
• All Full-time and EMP students not TMP students
• Kellogg Computer Labs
• Jacobs Center, Wieboldt Hall, McManus Living
  Learning Center
• Specialized software in labs includes
• Adobe Acrobat, Bloomberg, Clementine, Datastream,
  Equity Analysis Tool, Matlab, Palisade Decision
  Tools, Scientific Workplace, SAS, Stata, Style
  Advisor, SPSS, Systat, Xwin32
• www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/kis/fac_staff/public_
  machines.htm
• Standard software in use at Kellogg Laptops and
  Labs
• Windows XP Professional, Office XP Professional,
  Outlook XP, Eudora 5.2.1, Internet Explorer 6.0,
  Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, Meeting Maker 7.1,
  Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0, Norton AntiVirus
  Corporate 8.0, Netscape Communicator 7.0.2, Quick
  Time Player 5.0.2, RealOne Player 6.0, Windows
  MediaPlayer for XP

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Additional Tools for Students

• Customized Intranets for Students in Each Program
• Full-time, TMP, EMP
• www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/intranet/
• On-Line Pre-Enrollment Courses
• Math
• Accounting
• Microeconomics
• Statistics
• Course Selection/Bidding Information
• Course catalog and course schedule
• Faculty bios and course web sites
• Teacher/Course Evaluation (TCE) Scores
• Course bidding statistics history
• Faculty Publication System
• Entry required by full-time faculty in winter of
  each year
• May enter/change items at any time during the year

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Technology Training for Students

• TEKcamp
• Full-time students 1 day
• TMP, EMP, PhD students 1/2 day
• Course materials on TEKcamp web site
• www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/kis/tek/
• Ongoing TEKclasses
• Can coordinate offerings with faculty/class by
  special request
• Advanced Excel, Web Surveys, Research Databases
• www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/kis/tek/ongoing/

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Faculty Instructional Computing Committee

• Ask for advice and provide input to committee
  members in your department
• Linda Vincent
• Ravi Jagannathan, Bob Korajczyk, Bob McDonald
• Shane Greenstein, Mark Satterthwaite
• Peter Klibanoff, Jan Van Mieghem, Bob Weber
• Angela Lee, Brian Sternthal (Chair)
• 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
• Mike Mazzeo, Scott Schaefer
• Karl Schmedders, Sevin Yeltekin
• Alex Chernev, Vincent Nijs, Lakshman
  Krishnamurthi
• Ed Zajac

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Sources for Assistance

• For more detailed information on the web
• Faculty/Staff Intranet
• www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/intranet/facstaff.htm
  
• Faculty/Staff Computing
• http//www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/kis/fac_staff/
  
• Technical support (accounts, network, hardware,
  software, faculty web site, other instructional
  tools)
• Place on-line tech support service request
• Reaches Dan Rebac, Alex Millner, and Chi Ng
• Research computing
• Patricia Ledesma, Jim Guo
• Classroom tutorial, videoconferencing and
  videotaping
• Kevin Ofloy
• Classroom laptop service and other special
  requests
• Place on-line laptop service request

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Wrap Up

• Any other questions?
• Thank you
• Welcome to Kellogg!