Carlow IT Department: Bits-N-Bytes Newsletter Winter 2006

Welcome to the Winter Edition of Bits-n-Bytes!

In this edition of Bits-n-Bytes, you’ll read about many of the exciting projects that the I.T. department is working on this academic year. Many of these projects focus on training as we have decided to dedicate this academic year to helping faculty and staff better use technology.

Once again, I’d like to extend a huge THANK YOU to the hard-working staff of the I.T. department. During the fall semester, they completed 2,002 projects and problem requests. This is no small undertaking for a staff of only 16 (FTE) that supports everything from the Media Center to the Help Desk to Administrative Computing and beyond!

As always, if you have questions, comments, or suggestions, please contact our Help Desk at x8700 or email us at: helpdesk@carlow.edu

Thank you.

Karen Sturgeon
Assistant V.P. for Information Technology

January 2006

Inside this Issue
Welcome	1
Computer Cafe	1
Plagiarism Software	2
Winter Institute	2
Apple Lab	3
Plans for Spring Semester	3
Staff Spotlights	3
Did YOU Know?	3
Mark Your Calendar!	4
Comp. Cafe Winter Schedule	4

Computer Cafe offers
Something for Everyone

What is the Computer Café? Why are you hearing so much about it? Well, last semester, over 106 of your colleagues visited the Computer Café and the reviews are wonderful!

The Computer Café is a series of brief computer training sessions on subjects like: Blackboard, Lotus, Smart Classroom Technology, anti-plagiarism software, Word, Powerpoint, scanning, and the audience response system. Last semester

we taught 23 classes with a total of 213 attendees. What a tremendous turn-out for the very first semester of the Computer Cafe!

Now that you've heard about the success of the Computer Cafe, and if you want to see for yourself, please visit our web page to read about the SPRING SEMESTER courses. Classes are available to all faculty and staff. Included are: Excel, Blackboard, courses about classroom technology, and many more.

The classes fill quickly, so sign up soon!

Here's how:
View the available courses for Spring 2006 online (or look on the back of this newsletter):
http://www.it.carlow.edu/ instructionaltechnology/
class_descs.cfm

Sign up for Spring 2006 classes:
http://www.it.carlow.edu/
instructionaltechnology/
enrollclass.cfm

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