Category: Academic Technology

Academic Technology, Classroom and Conferencing Technologies

Ashley Turner joins Media Services

Eric Behrens

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. Ashley joined us as a Media Services Specialist in August and has already become an indispensable member of the team. Before coming to Swarthmore, she was the sound engineer for the Wilma Theater and an adjunct instructor of sound design at Drexel University. She earned … Continue reading Ashley Turner joins Media Services

Academic Technology, Software

New Version of SPSS

Mark Davis

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 uncertain. Simulation allows you to account for uncertainty in the inputs to predictive models and evaluate the likelihood of various outcomes in the presence of that uncertainty. See the topic Simulation for more information. One-click descriptive statistics. Select variables in the Data Editor and get … Continue reading New Version of SPSS

Academic Technology, Faculty/Staff, Moodle, Workshops and Training

Moodle 2 Upgrade on Thursday August 8, 2013

Andrew Ruether

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 assignment submissions Conditional access: automatically make items visible after a specified date More display options, including collapsable topics or week sections To help you with the transition to Moodle 2, we will offer several workshops in the coming weeks.  If you can’t make any of … Continue reading Moodle 2 Upgrade on Thursday August 8, 2013

Academic Technology, Lynda.com, Software, Students, The Dash, Tips, Workshops and Training

Lynda.com: a great new technical training resource

Eric Behrens

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, visit http://lynda.swarthmore.edu or find the link under the “More” menu on the Dash toolbar. Lynda is tied into our single sign-on system, so you can log in with your College username and password. You can watch the videos 24/7, from anywhere that you have network access. You … Continue reading Lynda.com: a great new technical training resource

Academic Technology, Faculty/Staff, Moodle

Moodle 2 Upgrade This Summer

Andrew Ruether

ITS will be upgrading our Moodle site to Moodle 2 this summer.  There are many improvements in Moodle 2 that make creating and updating a course easier.  Among the updates are the following: Drag and drop file uploads Conditional access: automatically make resources and activities visible after a specified date or to specified users. Quick edit of resource and activity titles from the front page More display options, including collapsable topics or week sections Design and layout improvements We will continue to keep past courses in Moodle so that you will be able to access materials from previous years after … Continue reading Moodle 2 Upgrade This Summer

Academic Technology, Faculty/Staff, SPEED Program, Swarthmore College Libraries, Web Projects

Libraries and ITS announce recipients of 2013 Summer Education eProject Development (SEED) support

Eric Behrens

ITS and the libraries are pleased to announce the 2013 SEED projects. As they did in our inaugural year of 2012, Swarthmore faculty and staff submitted an exciting and innovate pool of proposals. Here are this year’s recipients of SEED support: Collaborative web repository for video clip collections Erik Cheever, Ben Berger, and Sunka Simon Creating accessible course materials for students with disabilities and learning differences Leslie Hempling E-Latin Texts William Turpin Human rights and atrocities library guide Krista Thomason Online chemistry readiness exam for first year students Kathleen Howard with General Chemistry Instructional Staff and Josh Newby Reading Involves … Continue reading Libraries and ITS announce recipients of 2013 Summer Education eProject Development (SEED) support