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