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The speaker for the October Instructional Applications Interest Group meeting will be Kathy Kyzer of ITS Teaching and Learning. She will discuss Second Life and how it is used as an educational tool.

When: 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 4
Where: Room 329, Health Sciences Library

The IAIG provides a professional networking venue for staff who work with instructional technologies. Membership in the group is open to all interested University staff. For more information, see the IAIG Web site at http://its.unc.edu/tl/aoe/iaig.

Looking for a way to team build and promote cooperation and problem solving? Join Campus Recreation for a free Faculty/Staff Challenge Course Play Day on Friday, Oct. 12 at the Outdoor Education Center from 1-5 p.m. Continue Reading

Following Stephanie Szakal’s recent move to assistant vice chancellor for Enterprise Resource Planning and Deputy CIO Robyn East’s interim role overseeing Enterprise Applications, two director-level positions will be created to assist in the management of Enterprise Applications.

In the interim, Mimi Bennett will act as interim director of Enterprise Systems and Mechelle Clayton will assume responsibility for University Services while continuing to assist with oversight of the Business Analysis team. Until the two new positions are filled, Bennett and Clayton will support East in her oversight of the division. Continue Reading

On-call pay and shift premium pay sheets for biweekly #07 ending Sunday, Sept. 30 will be due to the designated boxes or to the ITS business office no later than 10 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 1.

ITS business office boxes are located in ITS Manning, Giles Horney, Peabody, the Undergraduate Library and the Administrative Office Building.

Forms should be sent to the attention of Nealy Hall at CB# 1150

Two ITS employees were recognized for their outstanding contributions to ITS and the Carolina community at a luncheon on Sept. 24.

Bruce Egan, manager of the ITS Response Center, was honored with the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence and the State Employees Award for Excellence, the highest honor a state employee can receive. Joe Bray, applications specialist, received one of just two Excellence in Management Awards. Continue Reading

Proposals for the 2008 UNC Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference, “Mix It Up! Creative Combinations for Learning in North Carolina,” are now being accepted. The conference will explore the variety of innovative blends of people, places, research, technology, policy and approaches for teaching and learning.

The deadline for proposal submissions is Monday, Oct. 15. For more information, view the Call for Proposals online. Continue Reading

Password resets are the most common request to the ITS Response Center, the equivalent of the constant work of two full-time employees per year. A combined initiative by the ITRC and Identity Management will automate password resets for the RAC-F system, removing almost a third of the ITRC’s password reset load and lightening the workload of several related personnel across campus. Continue Reading

UNC-Chapel Hill is about to take an important step in its implementation of a campus-wide system to store and control content. On Sept. 19, the University released a public request for information for enterprise-class document management and Web content management applications, two key components of what is commercially known as an enterprise content management (ECM) system. Continue Reading