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The IT Department added two new collaboration hub tables on the second floor lounge of Hillside Hall. Finished just a week before fall classes began, this source of technology allows students to share individual work from their laptops through a big screen TV.
“This is brand new for this campus,” Tom Sawyer, chief information officer for the IT Department, said. “This is as good as you’re going to see anywhere in the country,” Sawyer said. “Nobody else has done it. The company that put this together for us had never done one like this.”
The collaboration hub tables work by letting up to four students connect their laptops or tablets to the TV screen by connecting a chord to their computers. The chords are kept in a small black box on the table, which also brings up a touch screen panel.
The IT Department at IU Southeast is bringing in a new phone system for faculty and staff called UniCom.
Indiana University’s term for UniCom is United Communication Service, which uses Microsoft Lync to emerge voice and data together. It is a unified desktop communication system that provides instant messaging, telephoning, e-mail, desktop sharing and audio video conferencing.
The new phone system will cost around $200 for each phone and an optional headset is about $150.
The Unified Communications software was recently updated on faculty and staff computers. The system has been renamed Microsoft Lync, but the power to connect remains the same.
Tom Sawyer, chief information officer, said the services offered are invaluable. Sawyer travels to the various IU regional campuses throughout the week, and he said the teleconferencing and instant messaging allows for him to be in two places at once.
"With Lync, I can use any of the sevices from anywhere, even a hotel room if I have Internet access,“ Sawyer said.
The University Information Technology Services at IU Southeast are currently selling the remaining stock of used computers at the IUS Bookstore.
The ongoing sale began July 6, and, as of Sept. 26, the bookstore has about 127 remaining computers for $129 per unit.
Tom Sawyer, chief information officer, said the used computer sale results from a continual replacement of about 1,200 total campus computers during the current three-year replacement program.
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