February 25th, 2009

• IT Staff Meeting

  2:00pm - 3:30pm

• Web Publishing 101 Day 2

  3:00pm - 5:00pm Learning how to place images and other content on the web

February 26th, 2009

• Web Publishing 101 Day 3

  3:00pm - 5:00pm Editing in DreamWeaver

February 27th, 2009

• Afternoon off

  1:00pm - 5:00pm IT Staff afternoon off

December 22nd, 2009

• IT WebSite Redesign Goes Live

  All Day IT web joins the LiveWhale family

December 24th, 2009

• Winter Break

  All Day IT Offices Closed

January 7th, 2010

• WebAdvisor/Colleague outage scheduled

  9:00pm IT will be shutting down the Colleague server for system maintenance this Thursday, Jan 7, at 9PM.  We should be finished by midnight.  During this time, Colleague and WebAdvisor will be unavailable.

January 20th, 2010

• Moodle Demo

  3:00pm - 4:00pm See available features to decide if Moodle, our Learning Management System, would be valuable for an online component for your class, department or organization.

January 21st, 2010

• Moodle Jumpstart

  2:00pm - 4:00pm This two hour workshop will cover the basics of setting up your Moodle course, posting content and working with discussion forums – all that you need to get a Moodle page started for your class quickly.

January 27th, 2010

• Scanning

  3:00pm - 4:00pm Scanned images make excellent additions to your Web pages, presentations or papers. This session takes you through the basics of scanning photos and slides.

February 9th, 2010

• Creating Forms in Adobe Acrobat

  10:00am - 11:30am PDFs are ideally suited for distributing forms, however, increasingly people are no longer satisfied with simply printing out and completing PDF forms manually. In this workshop you’ll learn how to use Acrobat Professional to make your forms fillable online.  These interactive forms can be completed electronically with both Acrobat and the free Reader program and printed or saved and emailed.

• Intro to Photoshop (part 1)

  3:00pm - 4:30pm

  Create high-impact images on your computer. Edit and enhance images for your Web pages. Learn to use the current version of the most popular image editing software package on the market today, Adobe Photoshop. - First Session

February 11th, 2010

• Intro to Photoshop (part 2)

  3:00pm - 4:30pm

  Create high-impact images on your computer. Edit and enhance images for your Web pages. Learn to use the current version of the most popular image editing software package on the market today, Adobe Photoshop.

February 16th, 2010

• LiveWhale: Beyond the Basics

  10:00am - 11:30am Now that you have your web pages in LiveWhale, how can you make the most of our exciting new Content Management System?  This workshop will serve as an introduction to some of the more advanced features of LiveWhale, such as images, galleries, news, events, working in html, tagging and more.

February 18th, 2010

• Topics in Photoshop

  3:00pm - 4:30pm This is a workshop for those who have a working knowledge of Photoshop and would like to delve deeper. We’ll learn to use some of the more advanced tools and photo retouching techniques used by professionals to create high-quality images and posters. If you’ve ever wanted to learn more about layers, cutting out portions of images, or how to use the cloning tool, this workshop is for you.

March 23rd, 2010

• Digital Narratives

  1:00pm - 4:00pm An exciting trend in classroom and online video projects is the increased use of digital narratives, a method of storytelling using photos, artwork, music and more to create a media-rich presentation. Learn how to construct a digital story from start to finish using images, video, music, and audio. Apply your creative touch to provided materials as we walk you through the art of crafting a digital narrative.

March 30th, 2010

• Registration for Faculty Technology Institute Opens

  1:00pm Sign up now for our annual Faculty Technology Institute

April 13th, 2010

• Screencasting

  10:00am - 12:00pm Ever wonder how to record those little how-to videos from your computer screen?  Whether you wish to show students how to log in to WebAdvisor, show a step-by-step data entry project to your student workers, or demonstrate the correct citation format in Word, these videos, called screencasts, can be far more effective teaching and demo tools than handouts. In this class we’ll look at some of the available options and create some easy screencasts.

April 15th, 2010

• Windows 7 Show and Tell

  3:00pm - 4:00pm This summer, those staff and faculty members who are scheduled to receive new PCs will be among the first on campus to be upgraded to Windows 7.  Whether you’re one of those fortunate few, or whether you’re just interested in seeing what all the fuss is about, this demonstration will explain what’s new, what’s different, and how to navigate in this latest release of Microsoft’s operating system.

May 17th, 2010

• Technology Institute General Session: Fun and Useful Web Apps!

  12:45pm - 2:00pm Open to the entire L&C Community.

May 18th, 2010

• Technology Institute General Session: Moodle Showcase & User Group

  12:40pm - 2:00pm Open to the L&C community

May 19th, 2010

• Technology Institute General Session: IT Sandbox

  12:40pm - 2:00pm Open to all members of the L&C Community

May 20th, 2010

• Technology Institute General Session: Privacy and Professionalism in Facebook

  12:40pm - 2:00pm Open to the L&C community

June 10th, 2010

• Version 3: Thunderbird Uncaged

  10:00am - 11:30am Thunderbird version 3

July 13th, 2010

• InDesign (3-part)

  10:00am - 11:30am Go beyond your word processor into the world of page layout.

July 14th, 2010

• InDesign (3-part)

  10:00am - 11:30am InDesign CS4

July 15th, 2010

• InDesign (3-part)

  10:00am - 11:30am InDesign CS4

August 19th, 2010

• LiveWhale Demo

  2:00pm - 3:30pm Demonstration of new LiveWhale features and updates

September 21st, 2010

• MeetingMaker

  10:00am - 12:00pm This workshop is designed to help faculty and staff  use MeetingMaker, the supported campus calendar program. Learn about calendar views, adding new activities and meetings, private vs. public activities, activity vs. meeting, proxies, and more.

October 21st, 2010

• Beginning PowerPoint (2-part)

  3:00pm - 4:30pm PowerPoint is a presentation program that is part of the Microsoft Office suite. This hands-on workshop presents the basic information necessary to create your own presentations for screen or print.