Category: Faculty/Staff

Academic Technology, Faculty/Staff, Moodle

Moodle Upgrade on Friday 8/8/2014

Andrew Ruether

On Friday August 8, 2014, ITS will be upgrading the Moodle site. Moodle will be unavailable from 8AM to noon on 8/8/2014. Some highlights of the new version of Moodle: Ability to mark up student PDF assignments from within Moodle Modernized appearance, simplified interface, and improved usability for tablets and phones Ability to drag and drop images and text onto a course page Ability to show contents of folders on the course main page OpenBadges compatible badging system All existing courses and course material will still be available on the upgraded site. ITS will be offering introductory and intermediate courses … Continue reading Moodle Upgrade on Friday 8/8/2014

Academic Technology, Faculty/Staff, Mobile Devices, Software, Trico, Workshops and Training

Teaching with Technology Forum (hosted by Haverford College)

Eric Behrens

Our friends and colleagues at Haverford have invited anybody with an interest in educational technology to come to their annual Teaching with Technologies Forum. Date: Tuesday, May 13th, 2014. Time: 11:00am~2:00pm Location: Stokes 102 Program 11:00-11:30 Using an iPad as a Teaching & Learning Tool Paul Farber, Writing Fellow Hiroyo Saito, Director of the Instructional Technology Services 11:30-12:00pm Google Glass Upma Singh, Instructional Technology Specialist, IITS Charles Woodard, Digital Media Specialist, IITS Sorelle Friedler, Assistant Professor of Computer Science 12:00-1:00pm Light Lunch & Demonstrations Instructional Technology Services, IITS 1:00-1:30 Zapotec Talking Dictionary Brook Danielle Lillehaugen, Assistant Professor of Linguistics (Tri-Co), Alex Mannix (BMC ‘15) and … Continue reading Teaching with Technology Forum (hosted by Haverford College)

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

Libraries and ITS announce recipients of 2014 SPEED program support

Eric Behrens

The Swarthmore College Libraries and ITS are pleased to announce the selections for this year’s Special Projects for Educational Exploration & Development (SPEED) program. Swarthmore faculty and staff submitted an exciting and innovate pool of proposals, from which nine were selected. Deb Bergstrand, Graphics, animation, and 3D-printed education resource (GA3DER) Michael Brown with Adam Neat, Physics pre-lab instructional videos Sibelan Forrester, Comparing translations of a Russian poem Milton Machuca, Seeing Latino Migration to the USA Thomas Morton, Digital Rome: visualizing ancient Roman urban design Josh Newby, Kathleen Howard, and Ginger Heck, Enhancing chemistry labs with digital video Lee Smithey, The Mural Mapping Project Amy Vollmer, Flipping … Continue reading Libraries and ITS announce recipients of 2014 SPEED program support

Academic Technology, Faculty/Staff, Trico

2014 Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Conference (hosted by Bryn Mawr College)

Eric Behrens

Bryn Mawr College announced that the third annual Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Conference will be held on 21-22 May 2014. Advance registration by May 15 is required. Registration is free for Swarthmore College faculty and staff. This conference is part of the college’s Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Initiative, funded by Next Generation Learning Challenges and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. It is designed as a forum for college faculty and staff to share resources, experiences, and findings related to blended learning. Particular emphasis is placed on using blended learning to improve learning outcomes and support the close faculty-student … Continue reading 2014 Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Conference (hosted by Bryn Mawr College)

Academic Technology, Faculty/Staff, Students

Gaming Extravaganza – December 11th in Kohlberg 326 (LRC)

Mike Jones

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.   Continue reading Gaming Extravaganza – December 11th in Kohlberg 326 (LRC)

Faculty/Staff, Software

Please hold off on updating to Mavericks OS X 10.9

Mark Davis

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 resolve any potential incompatibilities with core Swarthmore systems and software before we can support you running the new operating system.  Apple surprised many of us by releasing Mavericks today.  Please know that we are working hard to support your use of Mavericks in the near future. … Continue reading Please hold off on updating to Mavericks OS X 10.9