New issue of Inside ITS available

The fall 2007 editions of Inside ITS are now available. The faculty/staff edition features stories about ITS’ recommendation for clickers, a classroom response tool; Tablet PCs; Windows Vista and more. The student edition features stories about ITS’ upcoming SASB facilities, pervasive wireless in the libraries, how to get tech support and more.
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ITS offers LearnIT workshops

There are still spaces available in the following LearnIT workshops. To read a workshop description or to register for any of these workshops, please visit http://learnit.unc.edu/workshops.

• KMT: Introduction to DocBook XML
  September 5
• KMT: Editing DocBook with XXE
  September 11
• Class Response Systems: Introduction to Clickers
  September 19
• Calendar (Oracle): Getting Started
  September 26

Faculty and staff invited to ERP kickoff celebration

The University’s multi-year initiative to replace most of its student, HR, payroll and finance applications is now well underway. The project, called Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), will touch every administrative system on campus. Now, faculty and staff have the opportunity to learn more about how it will affect them.

The ERP team invites faculty and staff to attend a campus-wide kickoff celebration on Wednesday, Sept. 12. The team will introduce the critical and complex ERP project at 2.p.m. in the George Watts Hill Alumni Center Ballroom.
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Symposium to promote discussion of games and learning

Can computer games be a useful tool to support student learning at UNC-Chapel Hill? What would it take to incorporate them into our curriculum? Games4Learning: A Conversation About Our Future will explore the potential use of games in the teaching and learning process at Carolina.
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Save the dates for upcoming IT conferences

This year’s UNC CAUSE Conference will be held in Asheville, N.C., at the Renaissance Hotel Dec. 3-5. The theme of the conference is “Sharing our Knowledge of IT Excellence.”

The 2008 UNC Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) Conference will be held at the Hilton North Raleigh March 12-14, 2008. The TLT Conference is co-sponsored by the UNC TLT Collaborative and the UNC Faculty Assembly. The 2007 UNC TLT Conference proceedings are now available online.

Mark your calendars and look for more information about Carolina IT conferences soon.