Willey Hall will Reopen at 1245 Tuesday, Dec 5

Willey Hall will reopen at 1245 Tuesday, December 5.

Willey Hall Class Notice Tues, Dec 5

The Minneapolis Police Department has received a bomb threat for Willey
Hall on the West Bank. The building is being evacuated and classes
scheduled for 11:15 on Tuesday, December 5 are canceled.



The building may reopen in time for afternoon classes if the building is given the all-clear.



Please monitor the University home page for updates -- http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/index.php

Blegen, SocSci Tower and Anderson closed for Evening classes Tue Oct 23

Blegen, Social Sciences Tower and Anderson are closed for Evening classes on Tuesday, October 23.



Please monitor the University's Web Site at www.umn.edu for updates.

OCM Temorary Phone Difficulties

OCM is moving to a new location in Williamson Hall on Monday, Oct 15.



We may experience temporary computer, e-mail and phone outages during the move, and apologize if you are inconvenienced.



The Classroom Hotline, 612-625-1086, will NOT be effected by the temporary outages.

Faculty Help Available from OCM Rapid Response Team

OCM RAPID RESPONSE TEAM - READY TO HELP FACULTY AS SEMESTER STARTS!



During the first days of the semester, Office of Classroom Management
technicians will be pre-positioned on the East Bank, West Bank, and St.
Paul campuses from 8 AM to 4:00 PM to provide rapid in-classroom
assistance to faculty in general purpose classrooms.



Any faculty member requiring assistance should contact the Classroom
Support Hotline at 625-1086. The Classroom Hotline dispatcher is in
radio contact with the roving technicians from Classroom Technical
Services, and will expedite response to the request.

New Active Learning, Flexible Classroom Near Completion

OCM's new student centered, active learning, flexible classroom pilot
projects in EE/CSci 2260 on the East Bank and in BioSci 64 on the St
Paul campus are nearing completion.



Opportunities still exist for faculty to schedule courses in these new classrooms for Fall semester.



Instructors using these new classrooms will be able to participate in
faculty development and assessment programs with OCM's pilot project
partner, the Digital Media Center (DMC).



Please contact OCM for more information!

OCM Web Site Power Outage Vulnerability

This OCM Web site may experience temporary power-related outages over
the weekend of 4 - 5 August. We regret any inconvenience this might
cause.

INFO ON I-35W BRIDGE IMPACT

For information about campus issues regarding the tragic I-35W bridge
collapse, please link to the University of Minnesota home page:



http://www.umn.edu

Important Notice of Telephone Outage

Starting Friday, May 25, 2007 at 6:00 PM and ending Saturday, May 26, at 6:00 PM.



As part of updating infrastructure and wiring for central telephone
services, NTS will be removing old wires and reconnecting them to new
infrastructure. All classroom telephones in the buildings listed below
will be out of service and will not have dial tone for the duration of
this project. Voicemail service will be available without interruption.
Telephones will automatically roll to the voice mail system and
messages can be left. Ethernet connections will not be affected.



The Classroom Support Hotline will not be affected by the outage and will remain in service.



Buildings affected by this outage:

Akerman, Architecture, Armory, Bell Museum, Civil Engineering, Church
Street Garage, Fieldhouse, Ford Hall, Klaeber Court, Lind, Mechanical
Engineering, Morrill Hall, Murphy, Nolte, Northrop, Physics, Pillsbury,
Shepherd Lab, Vincent, 4th St. Ramp, 1701, EECSci (partially).

Exams Scheduled in Folwell Hall on Thursday, May 10 are Being Relocated

All final exams scheduled in Folwell Hall on Thursday, May 10 are being relocated.

Exams scheduled for Thursday May 10 in Follwell Hall are being moved on the same scheduled date and time as follows:



Spring 2007 Finals Relocated from Folwell Hall



Please see table below:

Course	Meeting Time	Old Room	New Room
	Thursday May 10:	FolH:
ALL 5920 002 CHN 1012 001 CHN 4002 001 EDPA 5041 001 EDPA 5132 001 EDPA 8302 001 FREN 3014 001 FREN 3015 003 FREN 3016 004 GER 3512W 001 ITAL 1001 002 ITAL 1002 002 ITAL 1004 001 ITAL 3015 001 ITAL 4001 002 ITAL 4002 002 ITAL 4004 001 JPN 1012 001 JPN 4002 001 LING 3601 001 LING 5601 001 RUSS 1102 001 RUSS 3211 001 RUSS 5211 001 SOC 5455 001 SPAN 1004 014 SPAN 3015 003 SPAN 3107W 002 SPAN 3510 001 SPAN 3612 001 SPAN 3702 001 SPAN 3950 001 SWED 1002 001 SWED 4002 001 TRIN 4201 001	0800-1000 1330-1530 1330-1530 1640-1840 1640-1840 1325-1615 0800-1000 0800-1000 1330-1530 0800-1000 1330-1530 1330-1530 1330-1530 1330-1530 1330-1530 1330-1530 1330-1530 1330-1530 1330-1530 0800-1000 0800-1000 1330-1530 0800-1000 0800-1000 1640-1840 0800-1000 0800-1000 1330-1530 1330-1530 1330-1530 0800-1000 0800-1000 1330-1530 1330-1530 1830-2030	312 208 208 14 344 334 218 246 246 147 151 350 148 218 151 350 148 147 147 50 50 344 14 14 14 46 104 138 318 14 134 208 240 240 306	1701U 208 AkerH 309 AkerH 309 NichH 125 NichH 315 PeikH 155 NichH 145 NichH 110 1701U 109 Arch 45 1701U 206 1701U 207 NichH 325 1701U 218 1701U 206 1701U 207 NichH 325 1701U 208 1701U 208 Arch 31 Arch 31 1701U 16 NichH 115 NichH 115 NichH 125 NichH 315 1701U 16 NichH 110 1701U 14 NichH 355 1701U 109 NichH 335 1701U 3 1701U 3 NichH 120

U of M FUTURE FLEXIBLE GENERAL PURPOSE CLASSROOM INITIATIVE

The Office of Classroom Management (OCM) is building a future flexible
classroom as a pilot project in a renovation of rooms 58/64/70 in the
Biological Sciences Center on the Saint Paul campus.


The new active-learning centered classroom will demonstrate
important design concepts that will be fundamental in the next
generation of University of Minnesota general purpose (GP) classrooms.

These include:

- Flexibility to meet changing room size and/or pedagogy requirements

- Ability to flex forward to function as a larger SCALE-UP* classroom (capacity 117)

- Ablity to flex smaller to 2 SCALE-UP classrooms (72 and 36 capacity),
or 2 traditional seating table/chair classrooms, or 1 SCALE-UP and 1
traditional classroom



The Future Flexible Classroom will include a rich technology
environment using the UM Projection Capable Classroom standard system
with add-on modules, including multiple fixed flat-panel
display/projection systems, special laptop and system switching, and
circumferential white board surfaces.



Design and construction of the Future Flexible Classroom will feature
reconfigurable low-profile flooring with internal power and cable
management, demountable wall systems and advanced classroom AV system
control features. These key features will allow the room to be
reconfigured, or flexed, on an annual basis to meet changing room size
or pedagogical requirements.



This project is a concept demonstration to test room design,
construction technologies and features that will be used in future
University of Minnesota General Purpose Classroom construction and
renovations. The flooring and wall system technologies used in this
demonstration project have been successfully employed in corporate
office, lab and other settings. Their use in University of Minnesota
classrooms offers the potential to make sure that the inventory of
instructional space keeps pace with the dynamic teaching and learning
needs of faculty and students. It also helps the University optimize
its investment in building and maintaining the right classrooms for our
needs of today and tomorrow.



This project is a companion to the SCALE-UP GP Classroom Pilot Project
being conducted in Electrical Engineering-Computer Science 2-260 on the
East Bank campus.



OCM is responsible for room design, technology and construction in both
projects. OCM has partnered with the Digital Media Center for faculty
development and student/faculty assessment in both of the new SCALE-UP
GP classroom pilots. OCM's Classroom Planner Jeremy Todd is Project
Lead for the Future Flexible Classroom and SCALE-UP efforts.



The new pilot classroom will be operational in Fall semester 2007, and
the College of Biological Sciences will use it for their new
Foundations of Biology for Majors course.



* SCALE-UP: "Student-Centered Activities for Large Enrollment
Undergraduate Program" Classroom design featuring round tables for 9
students each in a high technology, student centered classroom learning
environment.

Classes Canceled Today in Select Buildings

Classes in the following buildings are cancelled for the remainder of today, Wednesday, April 18:



Smith

Morrill

Science Classroom

Fraser

Johnston

Koltoff

Walter Library

Appleby

University is Open for Classes on Friday

University is Open for Classes on Friday.

Classes Canceled Remainder of Thursday March 1

University classes and events for the remainder of Thursday March 1 are canceled.



Please watch local news for status of Friday, March 2 schedules.

SCALE-UP Pilot Project

OCM is building a SCALE-UP classroom pilot project for use by faculty
members seeking an activity-based instructional model and a new
classroom design.



"SCALE-UP" (Student-Centered Activities for Large Enrollment
Undergraduate Programs) classrooms feature large round tables, multiple
white boards, a centered teaching station, multiple projection/viewing
surfaces and laptop based technology.



Various institutions are experimenting with this new classroom design
that promotes greater student interactivity. The OCM pilot SCALE-UP
room is a demonstration classroom designed to allow faculty and
students to experience and test the concept.



The 45-student demonstration SCALE-UP general purpose classroom on the
East Bank campus will be available for use in Fall semester, 2007.



If you are interested in learning more about SCALE-UP classrooms or in
teaching in the pilot classroom next Fall, please contact OCM Jeremy
Todd at 625-5379 or Steve Fitzgerald at 626-8677.

Web site Tech Issue Resolved

Technical problems in submitting event requests and feedback comments
via the Classroom Website on January 11 have been resolved.



We apologize for any inconvenience.

Event Request Form Temporary Tech Difficulties

We are experiencing technical difficulties with the Event Request
submission form and feedback forms submitted via the Classroom website.



We regret any inconvenience that this may cause, and will resolve the problem as soon as possible.

Faculty Help Available from OCM Rapid Response Team

OCM RAPID RESPONSE TEAM - READY TO HELP FACULTY AS SEMESTER STARTS!



During the first days of the semester, Office of Classroom Management
technicians will be pre-positioned on the East Bank, West Bank, and St.
Paul campuses from 8 AM to 3:45 PM to provide rapid in-classroom
assistance to faculty in general purpose classrooms.



Any faculty member requiring assistance should contact the Classroom
Hotline/Support Line at 625-1086. The Classroom Hotline dispatcher is
in radio contact with the roving technicians from Classroom Technical
Services, and will expedite response to the request.