February 27, 2007 | In
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A new system that automates the creation of trust and special funds accounts will roll out campus-wide on Monday, March 5.
February 26, 2007 | In
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The Memex Metadata (M2) project is featured in the Feb. 9 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education. M2 is a joint project between UNC SILS, UNC Biology, and ITS. The project also receives support from Microsoft Research.
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February 23, 2007 | In
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Welcome David Culp to Financial Planning and Human Resources, effective Feb. 19.
February 22, 2007 | In
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The Feb. 21 ConsiderIT session drew 70 faculty, staff, students and guests who wanted to learn about the virtual learning environment, Second Life.
Second Life provides a unique virtual environment for educators interested in increasing interactive learning, exploration, cooperative work, simulation, role-playing, new media studies and training. There are currently over 2.5 million subscribers to Second Life including educators and students from such institutions as Harvard, MIT and Princeton.
Kathy Kyzer, Teaching and Learning, and her avatar lead a tour of Second Life.
February 21, 2007 | In
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Each month, ITS staff who have gone above and beyond the call of duty are honored with an On the Spot award. The January award winners include the following:
February 20, 2007 | In
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UNC-Chapel Hill, through a proposal submitted by the Provost’s Office, ITS Teaching and Learning and the Romance Languages Department, has been selected by the National Center for Academic Transformation to participate in the first round of its Colleagues Committed to Redesign (C2R) program.
February 16, 2007 | In
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February 15, 2007 | In
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Lenovo will supply desktop and laptop computers to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill community through the Carolina Computing Initiative (CCI) under a new four-year contract.
February 14, 2007 | In
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Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise student applications has been selected as the software foundation for the first phase of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) project, which will replace the University’s aging administrative software systems serving students.