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Blackboard Upgrade

Blackboard will be unavailable from Monday, January 7 thru the evening of Thursday, January 10. We will be upgrading the system to version 9.1 Service Pack 10. If you want to learn about some of the new features, read about them in our blog, visit the Blackboard Service Pack 10 web site, or/and login to our Blackboard sandbox in order to experience them. Read more...

WordPress Upgrade

We will be upgrading our WordPress installation next week to the just released version 3.5. WordPress will be unavailable for additions and editing for about an hour early next Tuesday morining in order to install the new version. New features include a brand new image upload procedure that makes uploading and managing image collections easy, a new default theme called Twenty Twelve, support for Retina displays, support for several new embed formats, new privacy options, and a host of new backend improvements. We will be blogging about the new features in the coming weeks, but for those who want to know the details, see this article at WP Candy.

Academic Technology Training for Spring 2013

We have published our spring training schedule for the coming semester. See the web version here (the long version including workshop descriptions), and the grid schedule of in-person events here. For PDF versions see a convenient one-page training "menu" (we mean this literally) here, and the standard, 20-page catalog style listing here.

New in the spring will be in-person workshops on Google Search Tips, Connecting an iPad to a projector, Web 2.0 tools, tablet computing, Blackboard mashup tools, the Google Art Project, and other topics. The new workshops will join the traditional offerings on the Palomar College POET program, WordPress, PowerPoint, Camtasia, Graphics, and pedagogy.

We are shifting most of our Blackboard training to in-person, one-on-one training with our techs. Please use our helpdesk to make appointments with the techs.

Thanks to Prof. Katie Townsend-Merino for applying to Google on behalf of Palomar College for the donation of used (3 - 4 years old) laptops and a new printer. Google is donating electronics to only 30 institutions in the US this year, and Palomar is one of them, thanks to Katie's interest and dilligent follow-through. Academic Technology will be receiving 5 Lenovo T-60 and T-61 series laptops for circulation to faculty and small group training workshops, and a new printer for use in the AT computer labs.

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Blackboard Upgrade Blackboard will be unavailable from Monday, January 7 thru the evening of Thursday, January 10. We will be upgrading the system to version 9.1 Service Pack 10. If you want to learn about some of the new features, read about them in our blog, visit the Blackboard Service Pack 10 web site, or/and login to our Blackboard sandbox in order to experience them. Read more... WordPress Upgrade We will be upgrading our WordPress installation next week to the just released version 3.5. WordPress will be unavailable for additions and editing for about an hour early next Tuesday morining in order to install the new version. New features include a brand new image upload procedure that makes uploading and managing image collections easy, a new default theme called Twenty Twelve, support for Retina displays, support for several new embed formats, new privacy options, and a host of new backend improvements. We will be blogging about the new features in the coming weeks, but for those who want to know the details, see this article at WP Candy. Academic Technology Training for Spring 2013 We have published our spring training schedule for the coming semester. See the web version here (the long version including workshop descriptions), and the grid schedule of in-person events here. For PDF versions see a convenient one-page training "menu" (we mean this literally) here, and the standard, 20-page catalog style listing here. New in the spring will be in-person workshops on Google Search Tips, Connecting an iPad to a projector, Web 2.0 tools, tablet computing, Blackboard mashup tools, the Google Art Project, and other topics. The new workshops will join the traditional offerings on the Palomar College POET program, WordPress, PowerPoint, Camtasia, Graphics, and pedagogy. We are shifting most of our Blackboard training to in-person, one-on-one training with our techs. Please use our helpdesk to make appointments with the techs. Thank You Katie!!! Thanks to Prof. Katie Townsend-Merino for applying to Google on behalf of Palomar College for the donation of used (3 - 4 years old) laptops and a new printer. Google is donating electronics to only 30 institutions in the US this year, and Palomar is one of them, thanks to Katie's interest and dilligent follow-through. Academic Technology will be receiving 5 Lenovo T-60 and T-61 series laptops for circulation to faculty and small group training workshops, and a new printer for use in the AT computer labs. New From Our Blog Blackboard over the Break The Orchestra Video Everywhere PowerPoint: Custom Slide Shows Blackboard Profiles Using Evernote Efficiently Grading? Back up! Must Have Apps for iPad: Scanner Pro How to Get the Latest Version of Windows Movie Maker The Microsoft Surface with Windows RT News From Our Twitter Feed A Startup Sees an Opportunity in Diabetes Prevention (NY Times) RIP e-book readers? Rise of tablets drives e-reader drop (CNet) Pope starts tweeting as @pontifex, blesses followers (BBC) In bringing Office to iOS, Microsoft is playing a dangerous game (ars technica) Internet Explorer vulnerability lets hackers track your mouse movements (ars technica) Update to Camtasia for Mac available (TechSmith) New Chrome Extension Lets You Save Web Content to Google Drive (Mashable) 25-GPU cluster cracks every standard Windows password in <6 hours (ars technica) For PC Virus Victims, Pay or Else (NY Times) Introducing Adobe Game Developer Tools (Adobe Creative Cloud blog)
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