Technology@Wooster

Back in April of this year, IT announced the designation of Taylor 210 as a classroom technology demo room. The demo room is intended to provide faculty members and instructional technologists with opportunities to experiment with and to evaluate classroom technologies in a classroom setting. The technologies installed in the demo room will change on a regular basis. The experimentation and evaluation that is conducted here will help the College to determine which technologies are effective in our learning environments, and consequently, which should be deployed in our classrooms.

IT recently installed a model 600i SMARTboard in the demo room. The SMARTboard joins the sympodium already located there. Plans call for the future installation of a ceiling mounted document camera and an audio capture system.

Further information on the demo classroom will be available at the beginning of the new academic year.

Instructional Technology Intern Joe Benfield demonstrates the new SMARTboard.

IT Administrative Assistant Linda McNeil will be on leave for several weeks beginning Monday, July 27.

During Linda’s absence:

• Questions related to mailing list creation and management using List Serv should be directed to the help desk at 330 287-3000 x1111.

• Requests for toner should continue to be made via the IT website.

• Questions related to Pharos print management accounts should be directed to the help desk at 330 287-3000 x1111 or to Mary Schantz, Manager of User Services, at mschantz@wooster.edu.

• Requests for loaner laptops and projectors should be made by sending an email message to IT_Loaner_Equipment@wooster.edu. These devices are available for check out for classes, presentations and related academic purposes. Devices must be picked up at the IT Help Desk on the main level of Andrews Library (behind the circulation desk) between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.

We’ll miss you, Linda.

Linda McNeil

User Support Specialist Leslie Worcester has announced that she will leave the College of Wooster as of August 3, 2007. She has accepted an IT support position at her alma mater. We will miss Leslie a great deal, and wish her the very best as she assumes her new position and the associated responsibilities.  Good luck, Leslie!

IT is pleased to offer a short training course on Microsoft Excel. This course will meet twice, between 9:00 and noon on both July 30 and 31. All College employees are eligible to participate. Enrollment is limited to 15. To register email Mary Schantz at mschantz@wooster.edu prior to July 27.

This course covers intermediate topics. These include:

User Services welcomes David Edwards and Catherine Grandgeorge to the team. On July 1, Dave replaced Michael Naylor as User Support Specialist. (As previously announced Michael assumed a new position in Networks, Telecommunications and Systems.) Last year, Dave served as intern for the Computer Science department and managed the CS computer lab. Prior to joining the College, Dave was employed as an information technology solutions consultant by Tack Wholesale. Dave graduated from Bowling Green State University with a degree in Computer Science in 2004.

In June, Catherine Grandgeorge joined the staff as User Services Intern. This internship is a 12-month appointment available to recent college graduates. Catherine graduated from the College of Wooster in 2007. As a student, Catherine worked as a technology consultant for the help desk and, in this role, made significant contributions to our efforts to improve the quality of service provided to the student community. Catherine replaces Becca Scina who completed her term and recently accepted employment elsewhere.

The Office of Information Technology is very pleased to welcome these new faces and we look forward to working with them!

Catherine Grandgeorge and David Edwards