http://its.unc.edu/hub Published by, for, and about Information Technology Services (UNC - Chapel Hill) Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:17:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A call for proposals for the 10th Annual UNC Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference is now available The deadline for proposal submissions is Monday, Oct. 6. The UNC Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference, with a focus on "Teaching Towards Tomorrow," will explore best practices, new perspectives ... http://its.unc.edu/hub/2008/08/27/tlt_cfp-2/ 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 ... http://its.unc.edu/hub/2008/08/26/iaig_sept08-2/ The September Webmasters meeting will feature Andrew Synowiez, VoiceThread co-founder, developer and UNC alum. The meeting will be held on Thursday, Sept. 4, from 2-3 p.m. in ITS Manning 2400. http://its.unc.edu/hub/2008/08/26/webmasters_sept08/ “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 ... http://its.unc.edu/hub/2008/08/25/itrc_callback-2/ Welcome Charles Yarbrough to Information Security, effective Aug. 11...Zachary Tewell to User Support and Engagement, effective Aug. 11...Jamar Jones to Teaching and Learning, effective Aug. 16... Kristin Hondros to Teaching and Learning, effective Aug. 18 and Susan Ray to Enterprise Resource Planning, effective Aug. 18. Farewells to Jin Shang and Josh ... http://its.unc.edu/hub/2008/08/21/people_21aug08/ Diane Strong of Finance and Administration and Scott McCall of Teaching and Learning helped pack a van with 902 pounds of food for delivery to the Durham location of the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina. http://its.unc.edu/hub/2008/08/20/food_drive_final/ Shortly after Vice Chancellor and CIO Larry Conrad came to Carolina, he met with a group of campus IT directors who collectively represented a broad cross section of schools and units. In that and subsequent meetings, information about IT activities in campus units and views were exchanged. So valuable were ... http://its.unc.edu/hub/2008/08/15/itec_formed/ Even Mother Nature couldn't stop Payroll Services and ITS from meeting the payroll deadline last month. A University Gazette article in the current issue highlights the team effort by Payroll Services and ITS to ensure that payroll was completed - despite a severe weather-related power and network ... http://its.unc.edu/hub/2008/08/14/gazette_kudos/