Join us December 11th from 11 am – 3 pm for Swarthmore’s first Gaming Extravaganza Study Break. Great food and an array of different games set up at multiple stations in and around the Language Resource Center (Kohlberg 326). The event will include vintage games and gaming platforms, multi-player, handheld games and foreign language games. […]
ITS is happy to announce the release of Adobe Creative Cloud! This software can be downloaded from our ITS Software page. What you need to know: Despite the fact that Adobe chose to name the new version “Creative Cloud”, the software is not cloud software and will still be installed locally on to your Mac or PC. […]
You may have heard Apple today announced that OS X 10.9 Mavericks is available as a free update today. However, at this time ITS is recommending that community members NOT update to Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks yet. Although OS X 10.9 offers many new features which may be helpful to you, we need time to identify and […]
Q: What do Antarctica, Brazil, and the Beardsley Media Center have in common? A: They’re all places that Jeremy Polk has worked. Jeremy Polk joined ITS last week in the role of Media Center Coordinator. Jeremy previously worked as a media producer at the National Science Foundation, where he specialized in documentary filmmaking and media […]
We’re pleased to welcome Ashley Turner to the Media Services group. Her colleagues, Michael Patterson, Dave Neal, and Mike Bednarz, are renowned on campus for their helpfulness. Unfortunately, we’d come to the point where the event and course needs of the campus required a level of support from them that often exceeded the merely heroic. […]
Michael Kappeler, known around campus as ‘MK’, was promoted this summer to the position of academic technologist. MK has been with the College for nearly six years in expanding roles as a web developer/designer. For the last two years, his work has focused on academic projects and support. MK has already established his reputation as […]
The Client Services team belatedly welcomes Oliver Hollocher-Small to the team! Oliver joined us on July 29 and brought along a jack-of-all-trades set of troubleshooting abilities to complement his contagious smile (not pictured). A Philadelphia native, Oliver is also interested in road and mountain biking, tree-climbing (he was an arborist for ten years!), and motorcycles. […]
ITS has a newer edition of SPSS (version 21 ) available for download for faculty, staff, and students here:ITS Software What’s new in version 21? Simulation. Predictive models, such as linear regression, require a set of known inputs to predict an outcome or target value. In many real world applications, however, values of inputs are […]
ITS will upgrade to Moodle 2 on Thursday August 8, 2013. Moodle will be unavailable from 11AM to 8PM. All your existing courses and enrollments will remain in Moodle after the upgrade. In addition to design improvements, Moodle 2 has useful new features, such as: Drag and drop file uploads Easy downloads of all student […]
Starting immediately, I.T.S. is providing all students, faculty, and staff with access to lynda.com, an online subscription library that teaches the latest software skills through high-quality instructional videos. Lynda.com maintains a very large and up-to-date library of courses taught by prominent technologists and designers. New titles are added every week. To try out the videos, […]