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Haverford College Presents: Teaching with Technology Forum
This May, Haverford College will host a series of presentations that explore interaction between technology and the classroom. Join Tri-College faculty and staff members as they discuss their experiences incorporating technology into their work. Among the presenters will be Swarthmore faculty members Sunka Simon, Associate Professor of German, Film and Media Studies, and Carina Yervasi, Associate Professor of French and Black Studies, who will discuss their experience co-teaching the Re-envisioning Diasporas course with Professor Mikelle Antoine of Ashesi University, Ghana. The event takes place Monday, May 2nd, 2012, from 9:30 – 12pm at Stokes Auditorium, Haverford College. View the entire schedule. Continue reading Haverford College Presents: Teaching with Technology Forum
Blackboard Shut-down and Moodle Training
Blackboard will be turned off on June 29, 2012. Starting at the beginning of June, ITS will be archiving all courses and organizations in preparation for the shut down. If you have important information in a Blackboard course or organization, please download your materials or export your course to your computer. The college has successfully transitioned many of our courses to Moodle already. ITS is offering many hands-on Moodle training sessions to assist with learning Moodle. Introduction to Moodle workshops help you get started using your own materials to begin developing your course in Moodle. Consider attending an Intermediate … Continue reading Blackboard Shut-down and Moodle Training
Identity Management/Account Provisioning to Launch April 19, 2012
For the past year ITS has been working diligently to enhance the way accounts and permissions are defined and handled on Campus. For faculty, staff, students and others who need Swarthmore College accounts, ITS worked with numerous departments and individuals to define these various roles along with their associated permissions and access rights. The goal of this project was to define the roles and permissions associated with our end-users as well as to streamline the account provisioning and de-provisioning procedures. ITS contracted with a third party vendor in order to streamline and automate this process and after months of work … Continue reading Identity Management/Account Provisioning to Launch April 19, 2012
Announcing Summer Educational eProject Development (SEED) recipients
The ITS academic technology team is pleased to announce the eProjects selected for collaborative development this summer. We are grateful to all 16 submitters, who proposed a diverse and creative collection of projects for us to consider. For our inaugural year, our team of professional staff and student workers will be taking on these six projects: Enhancing Physical Chemistry Lab with Digital Video, Josh Newby. The project will involve in-house production of two pre-lab videos that substitute for in-class lectures. The Hoodoo-Conjure Online Database, Yvonne Chireau. The project will result in a publicly searchable database and historical information on practitioners … Continue reading Announcing Summer Educational eProject Development (SEED) recipients
Network Maintenance, Thur 3/28, 6-7 AM
ITS will be performing necessary maintenance on the network tomorrow at 6 AM to resolve current issues. No service interruption is expected. However, we have scheduled this maintenance window between 6-7 AM for resolution of anything unexpected that may occur as a result of this work. Continue reading Network Maintenance, Thur 3/28, 6-7 AM
Update EVERYTHING!
… please!! Besides running up to date Anti-virus, one of the best ways to keep your computer from becoming infected (and then losing access to it while it gets re-imaged, etc.) is to keep your Operating System and applications up to date. Over the past few weeks, most major vendors have updated their software. If you run applications from any of the following vendors, you should upgrade that software as soon as you possibly can: Microsoft Windows Mac OS/X and iOS Adobe Reader, Flash, Shockwave, etc. Mozilla Firefox & Thunderbird Google Chrome Oracle Java Apple Quicktime & Safari Below are … Continue reading Update EVERYTHING!