http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/its ITS News Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:07:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ITS is offering monthly training workshops to help further develop your Argos skills.  All interested parties are invited to join this open forum to discuss and learn about Argos.  Since all levels are invited, the content of each class will be driven by the participants, their abilities and their curiosity.   ... http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/its/2009/11/18/argos-open-forum/ All faculty and staff are invited to visit the Academic Technology Fair this Thursday. The fair is a showcase of a variety of software and hardware resources that you can use for teaching, research, and administration. The theme for this year's fair is "Innovation Is Recession-Proof." All of the technologies on ... http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/its/2009/11/13/academic-technology-fair-nov-19th/ Although new Mac OS and Windows OS are entering the market, ITS does not recommend upgrading to the new operating systems at this time. ITS will make an announcement in the near future about upgrades, but at this time, faculty and staff should not upgrade their office computers to the ... http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/its/2009/10/26/new-operating-systems/ Since Move-In Day on Tuesday, students from the entering Swarthmore class of 2013 have registered quite a few new devices on our network. 421 individual computers were registered to the entering class in their first 24 hours on campus. Stats as of 8/27/2009: 494 total devices registered by the class of 2013 261 Mac ... http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/its/2009/08/27/its-welcomes-the-class-of-2013/ ITS has recently updated the Blackboard course management system to include the Blackboard Content Manager. Similar to Swatfiles but for course related materials, the Content Manager allows faculty and staff to store material online for use in their courses. Some uses for the Blackboard Content Manager: Group file exchange: a course folder ... http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/its/2009/08/24/blackboard-content-manager/