Link to Globus Now Available for Use with Firebird
2019 Student SPEED Summer Internship applications open now!
This summer, ITS and The Libraries are looking for students from across disciplines for an eight-week opportunity developing and learning new technologies while contributing to faculty and staff digital projects within what we call Swarthmore Projects for Educational Exploration and … Continue reading 2019 Student SPEED Summer Internship applications open now!
New BEP Classrooms
BEP Flexible Classroom will be available for classes beginning Fall 2019. This room is designed to support courses in which students spend some time working in groups during class, and might need to switch repeatedly between group work and presentations. … Continue reading New BEP Classrooms
Status Report on Friday’s Campus Network Outage
For much of this spring semester ITS staff have been chasing down several issues causing network instability. One of the causes was failing fiber optic cable which has been located and replaced. We also identified a bug in the network operating system running on some of our core network switches. We have been working with Juniper engineers (Juniper is the company that manufactures our networking equipment) for several weeks to identify and fix the problem. This may sound like a lot of time but this is a complicated issue and had to be escalated through Juniper technical support. Last Friday … Continue reading Status Report on Friday’s Campus Network Outage
Web Technologies and Trends to Look Out For in 2019
For this post, we asked Anthony Weed, our Academic Web Developer, to give some perspective on trends in web technologies he sees for this year. Frontend Frameworks (React, Vue, Angular) One of the prevalent forces in the web … Continue reading Web Technologies and Trends to Look Out For in 2019
iPads and Mobile Teaching Technologies in the Classroom
Starting in spring 2017 and repeating spring 2019, students enrolled in Manga, Bande Dessinée, and the Graphic Novel: A Transnational Study of Graphic Fictions have been able to utilize a combination of mobile teaching technologies in their coursework for a … Continue reading iPads and Mobile Teaching Technologies in the Classroom
ITS Statistics
What ITS services are people using? I looked at the activity on a few commonly used campus systems to see what was popular. Moodle Moodle is Swarthmore’s learning management system, used to share course content and allow students to upload … Continue reading ITS Statistics