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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!
Results from the First ITS “FedEx/Innovation Time Off” Day
Google is famous for the “Innovation Time Off” program in which employees are encouraged to spend 20% of their time working on projects that interest them. Software developer Atlassian created “FedEx Days” as a “hack day, a one-day creative burst of brainstorming, prototyping and presenting” where employees work on potential enhancements to its products. ITS’ first FedEx Day was held from noon to noon, March 8 – 9. The following are brief notes regarding the projects and technologies our staff members took on: Michael P: using a 3D video camera Don and Glenn: EC2 and S3 from Amazon Web Services exploring how … Continue reading Results from the First ITS “FedEx/Innovation Time Off” Day
New SwatFiles Drive for OS X Lion (10.7) now available
ITS has recently released a new SwatFiles Drive for OS X Lion (10.7) for home and office use by all College faculty, staff and students. This software is available for download from the ITS software page . To learn more see video below: Continue reading New SwatFiles Drive for OS X Lion (10.7) now available
Internet/VPN Maintenance Wednesday 2/22/12 at 6 PM
ITS will be conducting brief maintenance on the Internet connection tomorrow, Wednesday, February 22nd. Between 6:00 and 6:30 PM, there will be a 15 minute Internet outage. VPN connections will also be interrupted at this time. Note: The ITS maintenance window for short, non-critical interruptions in network services is Wednesday from 6-7 PM. These will be announced when required. Continue reading Internet/VPN Maintenance Wednesday 2/22/12 at 6 PM