Just a quick reminder that the new Center for Teaching Excellence is having kickoff open houses today, 2/20, at Rose Hill and tomorrow, 2/21 at Lincoln Center. The open houses will be an opportunity to get to know the Center’s staff, and find out more about its mission and goals. The open houses will be held in the Faculty Technology Centers, and since we’re lending them our space for the event, this is a great opportunity to stop by and see what’s happening in the FTC, too! 

For faculty interested in using Wolfram Mathematica at home, the process for obtaining a home use license is now as simple as 1-2-3:

1. go to http://www.wolfram.com/siteinfo/homeuse/
2. enter Fordham’s site license number (L3144-0453)
3. choose “A New Home-use License,” enter the requested information,* and tell us how you want to receive the software.

Once your employment status is verified, you will receive an email with information on downloading the software or obtaining a CD.

* To speed the process of employment verification, please use your Fordham faculty email address when filling out the form.

The blackboard system was unavailable for an extended period of time yesterday, February 10th, while emergency maintenance was performed to correct a server failure. The failure occurred just after 12:00pm and service was fully restored at approximately 6:30pm.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

As a reminder, we encourage all users to email blackboard@fordham.edu immediately if they experience any problems with the Blackboard Learning System.

The Spring technology training schedule for faculty and staff has been posted. New offerings for this year include wikis, social networking, and Google Documents, as well as classes on a range of MS Office products and basic web tools. See http://www.fordham.edu/training for details.