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.

Course materials for many of our Fall Group Technology Training sessions have been posted to the WIki.

If you have registered for technology traing this Fall and need your course materials, or if you have taken a course in the past and want to brush up, or even if you are just thinking about taking a course and want to see what will be covered, visit the Wiki and click the link for training coursepacks.

Yesterday, we re-launched the Blackboard support site in a new, friendly format. Among other changes, help is now divided into two sections, students and faculty, to help users find answers more quickly.

New look; same address: http://www.fordham.edu/blackboard.

In the latest redesign of the University web site, all references and links to faculty and student email seem to have been removed. For reference, the url for faculty and staff webmial is:

http://mail.fordham.edu

The link for student email is: http://stumail.fordham.edu

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ITAC now has a podcast! You can subscribe to the feed here.

Our inaugural podcast is a recording of one of the talks from our Annual Technology Conference on May 22nd:

Keeping it Together: Bringing Information and the Internet to You With Syndication, Social Bookmarks, and Other Web 2.0 Tricks.

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If You’ve already seen Karl Fisch’s “Did You Know?/Shift Happens,” feel free to fast forward through the fist few minutes.

To ensure the integrity of our on-line learning environment, as of today requests for Blackboard password resets and other account changes will no longer be accepted over the telephone.

Requests must be submitted to blackboard@fordham.edu and must be sent from the Fordham email account of the person requesting the change. This will help the Blackboard staff confirm the identities of individuals requesting changes.

We’ve posted some Frequently Answered Questions about Podcasting on our Wikispace. If you are curious about podcasting, click over to learn a little more about what it is, and how you can do it at Fordham.

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.