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Interested in applying computer games to the UNC-Chapel Hill curriculum? Explore that topic at two new Games4Learning events! Continue Reading

The September Webmasters meeting will feature Andrew Synowiez, VoiceThread co-founder, developer and UNC alumnus. The meeting will be held on Thursday, Sept. 4, from 2-3 p.m. in ITS Manning 2400. Continue Reading

ITS Teaching and Learning will demonstrate Interwrite pad and Panopto Coursecast, two low-cost solutions for enhancing same place and time presentations, at the September meeting of the Instructional Applications Interest Group (IAIG). The event will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, September 4, in Health Sciences Library room 328. Continue Reading

The spring semester is barely over before preparations get underway at the ITS Response Center (ITRC) for the fall school startup. Come mid-June each year, the ITRC begins to plan for additional staff and tweaks the approach to handling the over 5000 help requests that are generated during the first 12 days of school.

Matt Howell explains ITRC startup to Chancellor Holden Thorp and his wife, Patti Worden Thorp, during move-in weekend. Continue Reading

“Welcome to Carolina!” So began the personal phone call that 80 percent of new students received from the ITS Response Center (ITRC) this summer.

About two weeks after freshmen and transfer students took ownership of their Carolina Computing Initiative (CCI) laptops, they received a telephone call offering technical support and a Carolina welcome. Continue Reading

ITS Web Services recently completed the creation of a new Web site for UNC-BEST (UNC Baccalaureate Education in Science and Teaching) and a site redesign for the Department of Romance Languages and Literature publication series “North Carolina Studies in Romance Languages and Literatures”

Each Web site speaks to very different audiences. UNC-BEST appeals to young adults while a typical visitor to the North Carolina Studies in Romance Languages and Literatures Web site is an academic searching for a publisher. Continue Reading

The ITS Employee Council is sponsoring a non-perishable food drive to benefit the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina. Food donations are being collected until Aug. 15 and may be dropped at any of the following locations:

• ITS Manning – second floor receiving desk

• ITS Franklin – front desk

• ITRC, R. B. House Undergraduate Library – Breakroom

• Peabody – 08C

• Giles Horney – outside room 144 Continue Reading

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.”

The program committee is inviting proposals for presentations, discussions, and Birds of a Feather groups. Proposals should be submitted through the 2008 UNC CAUSE Web site by Aug. 15. Notification of successful presenters will be made by the end of August. Continue Reading