Earlier this summer I had the opportunity to return to San Diego, where ESRI, the creators of the premier GIS tools on the planet – the ArcGIS Pro desktop and ArcGIS Enterprise suite, along with a panoply of extensive mapping … Continue reading What’s new and coming for ArcGIS StoryMaps: Report from the ESRI User Conference
We’ve been fortunate to be able to hold the line on costs with our Qualtrics contracts over the past several years despite significant pressure to pay more. This year, our negotiations with Qualtrics have resulted in some additional features and … Continue reading New Qualtrics Features
What is a retention policy? Everyone who is a member of the College community creates a “digital footprint” during their time at the College. This means the work they have stored on ITS servers, their surveys in Qualtrics, their work … Continue reading ITS Retention Policies: How to decide how long we keep stuff?
Swarthmore has a site license for Linkedin Learning, a resource for on-line learning across a variety of different software tools, programming languages, business development, DEI, and even time management! What this means is that faculty, staff and students can take … Continue reading Don’t waste time teaching software!
WiFi calling, which allows a cell phone to make and receive calls over the local wifi network, rather than using the cellular network has been a huge benefit when working in spaces that are not well served by the cellular … Continue reading WiFi calling enabled for iPhones!
As we move into the new Spring semester, I’d like to take a moment to celebrate the semester culminating project (The Struggle to Preserve Philadelphia’s Chinatown) produced by a group of students, with the support of their faculty instructor, and … Continue reading Technology in the Classroom: Mapping Chinatown with ArcGIS StoryMaps
