http://its.unc.edu/news News and Announcements from Information Technology Services at Chapel Hill Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:54:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://its.unc.edu/news/blog/2008/08/27/iaig_sept08/ 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. http://its.unc.edu/news/blog/2008/08/26/webmasters_sept08/ ITS Information Security is ramping up efforts to curb copyright infringement on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. An extensive campaign warning of the dangers of illegal file sharing was launched for students during move-in weekend and will continue throughout the fall semester for students, faculty and staff. http://its.unc.edu/news/blog/2008/08/22/file-sharing-campaign/ "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 ... http://its.unc.edu/news/blog/2008/08/20/itrc_callback/ The old saying goes "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." If you teach in one of the 159 multimedia classrooms on campus, be sure to become familiar with its technology by scheduling a technology classroom orientation. Here's how: http://its.unc.edu/news/blog/2008/08/18/tech_demo/ 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 outage. http://its.unc.edu/news/blog/2008/08/15/gazette_kudos/ He has three master's degrees, a microscope addiction and is a self-confessed "voyeur of pond life." According to Paul Cappannari, an Enterprise Applications programmer, he tends to “flit from thing to thing.” http://its.unc.edu/news/blog/2008/08/13/road_cappannari/ 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 ... http://its.unc.edu/news/blog/2008/08/11/itec_formed/ 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. ... http://its.unc.edu/news/blog/2008/08/08/uncbest_srll/ Each month a number of information and instructional technology sources are reviewed and items of interest to academics using technology in instruction and research are collected and disseminated electronically through Infobits. A monthly publication with over 7,500 subscribers, Infobits marked 15 years of publication in July. Some items from the ... http://its.unc.edu/news/blog/2008/08/06/infobits_15yr/