Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:40:46 +0000

The University has just announced that it will be closed Tuesday, February 9. From preparedness.georgetown.edu:

Georgetown University is closed today, and will remain closed on Tuesday, February 9, 2010. Classes are canceled for the Main Campus, the Medical Center, the School of Medicine, and the School of Continuing Studies (all locations).

All designated emergency employees must report to work on time. The Georgetown University Transportation Shuttle (GUTS) will not operate on Monday or Tuesday.

The library will remain open (see http://www.library.georgetown.edu/ for details). Dahlgren Medical Library will operate as usual (see dml.georgetown.edu for details).

So, if you didn’t do any work today, you lucked out! And with 10 to 20 more inches on the way tomorrow night, who knows what Wednesday will hold…

Update 10:09 p.m.: Provost James O’Donnell has just sent a charming, poetic e-mail about the University’s decision to close the school. From the e-mail, whose subject line is “snow, closing, coping”:

We have spent the day consulting and looking for a way to make it work, but have been unsuccessful, and that’s immensely frustrating for many of us …. Administrative offices will be closed Tuesday, but faculty members who wish to hold classes may do so according to the regular Tuesday schedule but without penalty for students unable to attend. (Alas, that won’t be possible for School of Continuing Studies classes.)

We now have the advantage of multiple technologies of communication, including notably the Blackboard course management system, and I strongly encourage faculty and students alike to take up those tools and see just how much of the business of teaching and learning we can achieve. With a little more time on our hands, can we be inventive and imaginative and find ways to keep the semester moving forward, even on a thick layer of ice and snow? I look forward to hearing about the experiments and victories that ensue.

Victories in the meantime: Lauinger Library, that beacon of our commitment to learning and inquiry, has remained and will remain open and welcoming. Many others, including staff in dining and residence life, the students of the Corp and GERMS, the shovelers and plowers and many others in facilities services, and the officers and staff of DPS — and I wish I could be sure I’m not forgetting anybody! — are still keeping the campus safe and comfortable during this time, and we owe them all our warmest thanks.

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Thanks to all the feedback from the EDUCAUSE 2009 attendees, I was invited by Steve Worona to present online during to be presented again during EDUCAUSE Live!, which is a series of free, hour-long interactive web seminars on critical information technology topics in higher education. The topic focused on cultivating an inexpensive methodology for recruiting, training, and coaching student employees. Along with, learning how to develop an effective training program that will transition students into exceptional employees, improve their technical knowledge, streamline service, and refine the overall customer experience.

The whole experience was amazing and you will be surprised on how much work goes into hosting these one-hour sessions. This was my first time presenting in an online atmosphere and I could not be more happy with the results. Thanks to Steve Worona and the EDUCAUSE staff, they made the whole process very enjoyable.

The Web Seminar (A.K.A. Webinar) broadcast expanded across the world.

After the broadcast, I received a 100+ e-mails from universities from all around the world. Many of them I had no idea that they existed, so I began plotting them with Google Maps. The whole process was long, but it was enjoyable to see how far my ideas have reached. The farthest university was University Of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia, which is 9,895 miles away from Columbus, Ohio. (Calculated by Draft Logic)

The feedback from everyone was overwhelming and it was enjoyable to see that something I thought was so small, has made such a large impact.

Thanks to EDUCAUSE, the webinar was recorded and archived: Listen Here

Registered Attendee List:

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