The ITS Help Desk is now looking for associates to hire for summer 2014. We are looking for people who enjoy working with technology, learning about technology, and helping others solve problems. Are you that person, and do you have good inter-personal skills, and excellent verbal and written communication skills? If so, apply today! I […]
Apply for a SPEED internship by March 19th, 2014!
For the past two summers, ITS & the Libraries have been creating academic web and digital media projects through a program called Swarthmore Projects for Educational Exploration and Development (SPEED). Because the needs of these projects will vary, the SPEED intern will have the opportunity to explore many aspects of the work done within the Academic Technology & Libraries. SPEED interns will be deeply involved in projects from start to finish, with the expectation that they will contribute substantially to the successful completion of projects. Work may include, but not be limited to: writing code in various languages (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Python) […]
If you are a Cisco AnyConnect VPN user, a new version of the software will automatically be installed the next time you use VPN. The latest version, 3.1.05152, provides support for OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) and Windows 8.1 in addition to fixing rarely encountered bugs in the previous version.
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 […]