McFarland Student Union- Electrical Shut Down Notice. On Tuesday, Dec. 29 the power feeding all receptacles (outlets) will be down from 8 - 10 a.m. to perform preventive maintenance on the building transformer. Please make sure all PC’s are shut down and do not start any critical work on your PC’s prior to the shut down. Thank you for your cooperation.

        Kyle Mills, director, Facilities Maintenance & Energy Services

Service Request Schedule/Special Event Support- In an effort to better serve our customers, the Facilities Office is scheduling events and deliveries approximately two months in advance.  As a result, timely planning and notification by our customers will greatly increase our opportunity for success in this area.  Because of the many varied interests and competing priorities, we must be able to anticipate use of our limited resources.  In the future, the Facilities Department may not be able to guarantee that we will service requests on short notice, since doing so may impact other customers' planned requests.  Please submit your set-up requests and special event support needs at least two weeks in advance in order to assure that you will have the level of support that you need.  Thank you for your attention in this matter.

        Kim Rhode, director, Facilities Business and Campus Services

Construction Update: There will be a campus wide electrical shutdown starting at 7 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 30 to perform maintenance on the substation. This shutdown will affect all buildings on campus, and is expected to last two hours. At that time, the buildings will be returned to service, with the exception of the following: Beck Hall, Deatrick Hall, Stratton Administration Center (new section closest to Main Street) and the Heat Plant (old), including the Garage. Those buildings will be returned to service by 4 p.m. Please be sure to turn off your computers and other electrical devices by close of business on Tuesday, Dec. 29. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Facilities Work Control Center at ext. 3-1594.

        Kyle Mills, director, Facilities Maintenance

        Chris Scott, construction manager, Facilities Project Services

Upgrades to campus fire alarm systems will occur throughout the semester break period (Dec. 21, through Jan. 15).  These upgrades will include replacement of the PC-based graphical command center at Public Safety and programming of voice-communication fire alarm systems to support the university’s new Mass Notification capabilities. SimplexGrinnell fire alarm technicians will also conduct testing of the voice communication/mass notification network, which will include sounding the new emergency notification tone and selected messages.  A pre-announcement, alerting you to the impending test, will be provided before the test is conducted.  Additional information on the Mass Notification system will be provided in January 2010.

       
        Stephen Helms, director – Environmental, Health & Safety

Below are just a few of the services being offered by the Audiovisual Center this year:

Digital Video Workshops: These workshops help your students learn current digital video production skills including digital video camera usage and video editing using iMovie software. Students attending workshops will learn how to generate quality video products for use in your classes. Training sessions can be arranged for faculty and their students upon request.

Equipment Demonstrations: We offer one-on-one and small group instruction on the use of all AV Center hardware including digital cameras, iPods, wireless microphone kits, etc. Training sessions can be arranged upon request.

Films Media Group (FMG) Workshops: The FMG video-on demand system enables you to incorporate video into your classroom instruction and/or your Blackboard course shells.  All FMG training sessions will be located in the FMG training area near RL 19 on the ground floor of the Rohrbach library.

Seating is limited for all workshops. Please contact Anne Manmiller, secretary, Learning Technologies Department, at ext. 3-4900 or manmille@kutztown.edu, to make a reservation.

Feel free to drop by my office or contact me for more information at 610-683-4261 or via e-mail at thpham@kutztown.edu.

All Department of Learning Technologies offerings can be found online at http://www.kutztown.edu/academics/lt/ltc/schedule.html.

        Thiep Pham, coordinator, AV Center