July 29, 2008 | In
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The topic of the August Instructional Applications Interest Group (IAIG) meeting is "Toy Stories." If you have a piece of technology you can't live without or a device that makes work life easier, bring your "toy" to room 328, Health Sciences Library on Thursday, Aug. 7 at 11:30 a.m. Share your experiences and recommendations!
July 29, 2008 | In
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The next Webmasters meeting will feature presentations on the content management systems Joomla, Wordpress and Drupal. The meeting will be held on Thursday, Aug. 7, from 2-3 p.m. in ITS Manning 2400.
Jonathan Pletzke, an experienced technical leader, project manager and author, will present on Joomla and Wordpress. Judy Hallman, a retired campus webmaster and former Tier 2 analyst in the ITS Response Center, will focus on Drupal.
July 29, 2008 | In
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Three ITS employees recently attended the 15th annual Residential Networking (ResNet) Symposium at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Chris Williams, ResNET program director, Jeremy Buenviaje, ResNET assistant program director and Paul Kamen, ResNET web applications developer, spent three days networking with their counterparts who represented over 100 colleges and universities from throughout the United States and Canada.
July 25, 2008 | In
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HR Announcements
Welcome Vetrivel Thiagarajan to Enterprise Resource Planning, effective July 7...Mark Wampole to User Support and Engagement, effective July 21... Kevin Sumner to Infrastructure and Operations, effective July 23...and Terrelle Buckner and William Poehls to Enterprise Resource Planning, effective July 28.
Farewell to Dan Blanchette of Research Computing, effective July 18 and Donna Roch of Enterprise Applications, effective July 25.
July 24, 2008 | In
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Proposals for presentations at the
2008 UNC CAUSE conference are now being accepted through Aug. 15.
The 2008 UNC CAUSE conference will be held at the
Greensboro Marriot Downtown from Nov. 17-19.
The theme of the conference is "The University of North Carolina Tomorrow: Striving for Excellence through Technology and Collaboration."
July 22, 2008 | In
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ITS is growing – and on the move! Due to the temporary demand for additional space resulting from the ERP student system implementation, several location changes are underway.
July 21, 2008 | In
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Newsflash
Recently, a message encouraging flexible work arrangements was sent from Brenda Malone, associate vice chancellor for Human Resources, to the University community in acknowledgment of the unprecedented increase in the price of gasoline and the burden it places on UNC-Chapel Hill employees. The University encouraged individual units to perform their own assessments and determine the best approach for their staff.
July 18, 2008 | In
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Following a brief mid-summer break, the Carolina Training and Orientation Program Sessions (CTOPS) are back in full swing. Throughout the summer, the University will host close to 4,000 first-year and transfer students at the two-day sessions, offering students a solid foundation on which to build their life at Carolina.
July 16, 2008 | In
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Newsflash
Access to UNC’s Oracle calendar will be unavailable this coming weekend beginning Friday, July 18 at 11 p.m. until Sunday, July 20 at noon. During this time all access to the calendar server via Oracle desktop client, Microsoft Outlook connector, Web interface, smartphones and PDA's via SyncML or desktop conduit will be unavailable.
July 14, 2008 | In
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ITS Teaching and Learning’s Games4Learning initiative will host a discussion on “Does Game-Based Learning Work? Results from Three Recent Studies” on Wednesday July 16 at 12 p.m. in room 222, Murphy Hall. Laura Christopherson, a doctoral student in the School of Information and Library Sciences, will lead the discussion.
