http://its.unc.edu/news/special Just another webcms.unc.edu/its weblog Fri, 02 May 2008 12:04:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Are you looking for an easy-to-use tool for online presentation and commentary? Something that supports not only text, but also images, audio and video? VoiceThread could be the solution. ITS Teaching and Learning is piloting VoiceThread, a Web-based application that allows users to post media files and then invite others to ... http://its.unc.edu/news/special/2008/05/02/voicethread-pilot/ On Thursday, May 8, ITS Information Security will host an Information Security Briefing for UNC-Chapel Hill IT staff featuring presentations by Oracle, Mandiant, Microsoft, Symantec and the Office of University Counsel. The event will take place from 8 a.m. till 4:30 p.m. in the Sonja Haynes Stone Center (PDF). Registration ... http://its.unc.edu/news/special/2008/04/21/its-information-security-briefing/ On Friday, April 11, ITS Teaching and Learning will host Malcolm Brown, director of academic computing at Dartmouth College, who will present "Teaching and Learning Innovation: Taming the Tiger." The event will take place from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. in Toy Lounge at Dey Hall. To learn more and register ... http://its.unc.edu/news/special/2008/03/31/teaching-and-learning-innovation-taming-the-tiger/ ITS has helped Student Government design a survey about student satisfaction with the campus wireless network. The survey will determine what services students use and what changes they would like to see regarding wireless Internet and related services. The survey is available at http://its.unc.edu/tl/wireless_survey.php until mid-February 2008. All students who complete ... http://its.unc.edu/news/special/2008/01/30/campus-wireless-survey/ Some say that the use of laptops in the classroom will lead to the demise of handwriting, but a new student pilot testing the potential impact of Lenovo X60 Tablet PCs could prove otherwise. This fall, 25 students will receive a loaner Tablet PC for the remainder of the 2007-2008 academic ... http://its.unc.edu/news/special/2007/09/12/tablet-pc-research-group/ 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. http://its.unc.edu/news/special/2007/09/12/games4learning/