http://technology.blogs.wooster.edu the latest news from IT at the College of Wooster Thu, 15 May 2008 13:37:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The College of Wooster recommends the Apple Macintosh and Dell lines of laptop and desktop computers for incoming students. Most retail chains like Best Buy or Circuit City offer back to school deals on computers. While these deals offer a lower sticker price, they don't always include useful products like ... http://technology.blogs.wooster.edu/2008/05/15/computer-recommendations-for-incoming-students/ IT is pleased offer day-long intermediate courses on Microsoft Word and Excel 2003. Each course is conducted in an on-campus computer lab and meets from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The Word course will meet between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 28. Topics to be covered include: Working with Graphics Using Advanced ... http://technology.blogs.wooster.edu/2008/05/15/it-offers-intermediate-word-excel-training/ The second (of two) finalists for the position of Director of Instructional Technology will visit the campus on Friday, May 9. He will make a public presentation in Severance 009 at 4:00 on that date. He will speak to the role of technology in teaching and learning in the liberal ... http://technology.blogs.wooster.edu/2008/05/07/second-instructional-technology-candidate-to-visit-may-9/ The first finalist for the position of Director of Instructional Technology will visit the campus on Tuesday, May 6. He will make a public presentation in Severance 009 at 4:00 on that date. He will speak to the role of technology in teaching and learning in the liberal arts environment. ... http://technology.blogs.wooster.edu/2008/05/04/first-instructional-technology-finalist-to-visit-may-6/ Two finalists for the position of Director of Instructional Technology will visit the campus during the week of May 5.  The first will be on-campus throughout the day on Tuesday, May 6.  He will make a public presentation in Severance 009 at 4:00 on that date.  The second will be ... http://technology.blogs.wooster.edu/2008/05/01/instructional-technology-candidates-to-visit-next-week/ The position of Director of Web Services is currently vacant and a search to fill this position is currently underway. In the interim, the Office of Information Technology will provide assistance with essential web content updates. Update requests should be submitted to web-updates@wooster.edu. Requested changes will be processed as quickly ... http://technology.blogs.wooster.edu/2008/04/23/it-now-assisting-with-web-site-updates/ The Colleague (Datatel) system will be unavailable between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and midnight on Friday, April 18.  During this period important system maintenance will be performed and data will be transferred from the legacy system into Colleague.  ScotWeb will also be unavailable.  We regret any inconvenience this may ... http://technology.blogs.wooster.edu/2008/04/15/colleague-to-be-unavailable-friday-evening-april-18/ The following podcasts are now available at http://podcast.blogs.wooster.edu: Evaluation and Species Preservation Bryan Norton Bryan Norton is Professor of Philosophy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Professor Norton's lecture was delivered at Wooster on March 31 of this year and was the third lecture of the Environmental Analysis and Action Symposium series. The Earth's ... http://technology.blogs.wooster.edu/2008/04/14/new-podcasts-available/ Over the last few days the College webserver (http://www.wooster.edu/) has been experiencing instability.  We are currently working with the Director of Web Services to identify the source of this problem and to correct it.  This instability does not impact ScotWeb. Should you be unable to reach ScotWeb via the link on ... http://technology.blogs.wooster.edu/2008/04/09/scotweb-access-during-registration/ On February 19, Vassar College president Catharine Bond Hill delivered a lecture at the College of Wooster entitled "Democracy and Access to Higher Education."  This lecture was part of the College's Great Decisions series.  An audio file of the lecture is now available at http://podcast.blogs.wooster.edu. The podcast of this event ... http://technology.blogs.wooster.edu/2008/03/26/catharine-bond-hill-audio-file-available/