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Spring 2013 Blackboard Courses Have Been Created

The new Blackboard course shells for the spring 2013 semester have been created, as of Sunday, October 21. Standard procedure is to create course shells for the coming semester 90 days prior to its start. The new courses will be listed in your My Courses area. Materials can be copied into the new course shells using the Course Copy tool. Remember to archive your courses periodically, and especially at the conclusion of a semester, in case they need to be restored at a later time. Remember also that your new, spring 2013 courses will not be available to students until you make them available. Please contact us for assistance if you encounter problems.

Blackboard will be updated to the latest Service Pack over the winter break, from January 7-10, 2013, and will be unavailable during that time.

This Wednesday, October 31, we will be holding our once-per-semester iPad users group in room LL-109 from 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. The event is on a drop-in basis, so if you use an iPad, or are interested in using an iPad, please plan to attend. Refreshments will be served, and we will have demos and discussion on using the iPad with classroom projectors, using Dropbox, PDF annotation on the iPad, and using the iPad with Blackboard. If you have an app you want to share, we will have open sharing time also. (Costumes, of course, are optional).

Windows 8 was formally released on October 26. We recommend the ars technica review, if you want to get up to speed on Microsoft's latest OS, which is designed to integrate the desktop and touch-based tablet worlds, for better or worse. We do not have plans to convert the Academic Technology labs to Windows 8 for the spring 2013 semester. But for the millions of PCs and laptops that will be sold this Christmas, Windows 8 will be the OEM installed OS. If you wish to obtain a free copy, as long as you comply with Microsoft's terms of use, Palomar faculty, staff and students can do so through our Academic Alliance program. If you do decide to upgrade older OS computers to Windows 8, the CNet Windows 8 upgrade FAQ may be useful to you.

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Spring 2013 Blackboard Courses Have Been Created The new Blackboard course shells for the spring 2013 semester have been created, as of Sunday, October 21. Standard procedure is to create course shells for the coming semester 90 days prior to its start. The new courses will be listed in your My Courses area. Materials can be copied into the new course shells using the Course Copy tool. Remember to archive your courses periodically, and especially at the conclusion of a semester, in case they need to be restored at a later time. Remember also that your new, spring 2013 courses will not be available to students until you make them available. Please contact us for assistance if you encounter problems. Blackboard will be updated to the latest Service Pack over the winter break, from January 7-10, 2013, and will be unavailable during that time. iPad Users Group This Wednesday, October 31, we will be holding our once-per-semester iPad users group in room LL-109 from 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. The event is on a drop-in basis, so if you use an iPad, or are interested in using an iPad, please plan to attend. Refreshments will be served, and we will have demos and discussion on using the iPad with classroom projectors, using Dropbox, PDF annotation on the iPad, and using the iPad with Blackboard. If you have an app you want to share, we will have open sharing time also. (Costumes, of course, are optional). Windows 8 and Our Academic Alliance Program Windows 8 was formally released on October 26. We recommend the ars technica review, if you want to get up to speed on Microsoft's latest OS, which is designed to integrate the desktop and touch-based tablet worlds, for better or worse. We do not have plans to convert the Academic Technology labs to Windows 8 for the spring 2013 semester. But for the millions of PCs and laptops that will be sold this Christmas, Windows 8 will be the OEM installed OS. If you wish to obtain a free copy, as long as you comply with Microsoft's terms of use, Palomar faculty, staff and students can do so through our Academic Alliance program. If you do decide to upgrade older OS computers to Windows 8, the CNet Windows 8 upgrade FAQ may be useful to you. New From Our Blog The Google Nexus 7 Tablet iPad Mini Event The Kindle Taxonomy Updated The Kindle Paperwhite The Moving Line in PowerPoint Inserting Links Into WordPress Pages and Posts SnagIt 11.1 How to Disable Comments in WordPress Office 365 Controlling Text Wrap in Word News From Our Twitter Feed How a Supreme Court ruling may stop you from reselling just about anything (ars technica) Google helps Windows 8 users get Search and Chrome with new video (The Verge) See How The iPad Mini Stacks Up Against Competitors (Mashable) Dell rolls out 23-inch multitouch display and wireless touchpad for Windows 8 (The Verge) Improvements and Enhancements to Camtasia Studio, Camtasia for Mac, and Snagit on Mac (TechSmith) For Windows 8, Skype gets a full makeover (CNet) New Office Web Apps, now live on SkyDrive (Office Blog) Office 365 University for Higher-Education Students (Office News) Apple removes Java from all OS X Web browsers (ars technica) Take Your Kindle To Work Day? First glance at Amazon’s Whispercast (ars technica) San Jose State U. Says Replacing Live Lectures With Videos Increased Test Scores (Chronicle of Higher Education)
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