Faculty:

As part of the upcoming University WebPortal Project , we will be holding Focus Groups. The sessions will be held on each campus and will last no longer than one hour. The Focus Groups are your chance to find out what is being planned and to contribute your feedback. We encourage you to come and participate!

Lincoln Center:

Wednesday, Oct. 4th, 3:30 PM LC McMahon Hall Lounge (ground Floor)
Rose Hill:

Wednesday, Oct. 4th, 11:30 AM RH Council Room ADN

Feel free to bring any additional faculty members you know. The more diverse the response the better to help guide us. Between everyone’s schedules and two campuses, this has been quite a challenge to schedule but I hope these times will allow you all to contribute your input to this important project.

Please register at: http://www.fordham.edu/portalfocus

Fordham IT has launched a new Student Technology Center to replace CompURam. Walk-in centers on each campus provide students with technical support for Hardware, networking, wireless access and university-supported software. Think of it as the FTC for your students.

Details are available at the Student Technology Services site: www.fordham.edu/sts.

The final October technology training schedule for Rose Hill is below. For more information or to register for a session, visit http://www.fordham.edu/training.

The final October technology training schedule for Rose Hill is below. For more information or to register for a session, visit http://www.fordham.edu/training.

By popular demand, SPSS Mac (13) is again available to all interested faculty in the Faculty Technology Centers. See our Site Licensed Software page for details.

WARNING:

SPSS 13 is not a universal binary and WILL NOT RUN CORRECTLY ON INTEL MACS. There is an incompatibility with Rosetta emulation that results in some computations returning incorrect results.

If you have an Intel Mac, you should consider running SPSS v14 for Windows under BootCamp, or look for an alternative. SPSS v15 for Mac, which will be Intel-compatible, will not be available until sometime in mid-2007.

Received today from Turnitin.com support:

Dear Turnitin Administrators,

Turnitin will be unavailable Saturday, September 23rd, 2006 from 9:00
A.M. to 3:00 P.M. PDT for database maintenance and upgrades. Thank
you for your continued support.

Sincerely,

The Turnitin Staff

That should be Noon to 6:00pm in New York, but don’t count on logging in right a 6:00; sometimes these things take a little longer than expected.

Over the Summer, Fordham purchased a site license for the industry standard EndNote bibliographic software. current version for both Mac and PC are available to all members of the Fordham community. See the Site Licensed Software web page for details.

During the summer ITAC added 19 new smart classrooms at the Rose Hill and Lincoln Center campuses. For further information on the smart classrooms, please check the Media Services site.

ITAC at Rose Hill, including all Media Services and the Faculty Technology Center moved to the new media suite during the last week of May. Our new location is:

Lincoln Center offices and facilities remain in LL 416 and LL 418.

We are realaunching this space for Fall 2006. itac.edublogs.org will now be your source for the most up-to-date information on instructional technology at Fordham. Watch this space for news about classroom upgrades, Faculty Technology Center improvements, training schedules, software recommendations, and more.