Category: Academic Technology

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

Moodle Training in December and Early January

Andrew Ruether

ITS will be offering three Moodle workshops in the next month. Spring 2012 will be the last semester Blackboard is available. Faculty teaching honors seminars during the 2011-2012 school year may want to use Moodle because Blackboard will not be available for rising juniors when they take their honors exams in the spring of 2013.  Feel free to drop into any of these workshops to learn more about Moodle. Introduction to Moodle On Thursday, December 15th from 1:30-2:30PM we will be holding a Introduction to Moodle training session in Science Center 256. On Friday, January 6th from 9:30-10:30AM, we will … Continue reading Moodle Training in December and Early January

Academic Technology, Software, Students

Kaleidagraph 4.1.2 for OS X Lion (10.7) now available

Mark Davis

ITS has just made Kaleidagraph 4.1.2 for Lion available from the ITS software page for all College faculty, staff and students to use. This latest update offers the following enhancements: Added support for the Intel Macintosh. The installer will install the correct version based on the processor in your computer. Bitmap file export such as BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, and TIFF now uses QuickTime to generate the export files. As a result, several new options are available for some of the formats such as byte ordering, LZW compression, and variable JPEG export quality. High Resolution TIFF images are exported with … Continue reading Kaleidagraph 4.1.2 for OS X Lion (10.7) now available

Academic Technology, Software

New JMP License for 2011-2012

Mark Davis

For new users installing JMP To install JMP, please visit our software download page: http://www.swarthmore.edu/x31663.xml IMPORTANT NOTE FOR WINDOWS USERS: Before launching JMP, copy the JMP.PER file (available here and on our software download page) to C:\Program Files\SAS\JMP\8 For existing users installing JMP Windows: If you are currently using JMP 8 and encounter a message asking for the location of the JMP.PER file, copy the JMP.PER file to C:\Program Files\SAS\JMP\8 and restart the JMP program. Mac If you are currently using JMP and encounter a message asking for the location of the JMP.PER file, drag the current JMP.app file to … Continue reading New JMP License for 2011-2012

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

Moodle Workshops and Drop In Consulting Times

Andrew Ruether

Moodle is replacing Blackboard as Swarthmore’s learning management system.  While Blackboard will be available until June 2012, ITS is encouraging faculty to switch their courses to Moodle before the last minute. ITS will be hosting Moodle training and consulting on August 23-25 (Tuesday – Thursday) in the ITS Media Center (Beardsley 114). From 1:30PM – 2:30PM each day, we will have an Introduction to Moodle workshop. From 2:30PM – 4PM each day we will have consulting time where faculty and staff can drop by to work on their courses or ask questions about Moodle. If you have any questions, don’t … Continue reading Moodle Workshops and Drop In Consulting Times

Academic Technology, Classroom and Conferencing Technologies

New HD Classrooms

Michael Bednarz

Over the past two summers, Media Services has upgraded a number of classrooms, seminar rooms, and lecture halls to high definition projection A/V systems. What this means is that you will now be able to show your laptop presentations in high definition and wide screen. The installed classroom computers and disc players will project in high definition. Not all of the classrooms have this capability.  We have compiled a list of rooms that we call HD Digital Media A/V projection systems. For more information on our HD classrooms, please visit the Media Services website. Below is a list of rooms … Continue reading New HD Classrooms

Academic Technology, Faculty/Staff, Software, Students, Workshops and Training

R Statistical Software Training

Andrew Ruether

R is a free statistics program widely used at Swarthmore (and the rest of the world, too).  If you would like to learn more about how to use R, ITS will be hosting a series of web training sessions from the National Institute from Computational Sciences.  The sessions take place every Wednesday at 3PM from June 22 to July 6, 2011.  The topics are: June 22 – Introduction to R June 29 – R graphing with ggplot2 July 6 – Parallel computing with R Contact Andrew Ruether (aruethe2, x8254) if you would like to attend any of the sessions. Continue reading R Statistical Software Training