http://www.development.umd.edu/ARHU/ Your Source of info about ARHU's Instructional & Infrastructure technology News en-us 2004-06-03T16:39:36-05:00 http://www.development.umd.edu/ARHU/archives/000382.html OIT offers summer workshops for Faculty and Staff Short Courses for Staff A full schedule of short courses for staff offered by the Office of Information Technology's (OIT) training unit can be found at http://www.oit.umd.edu/units/as/sc/schedule.html. Classes include MS Access, MS... Feature Article Lenita 2004-06-03T16:39:36-05:00 http://www.development.umd.edu/ARHU/archives/000380.html Access files saved on the ARHU server from home ARHU staff and faculty can use an ordinary web browser to access files saved on the college server from their home computer. Whether you have dial-up, DSL or cable modem, there... Did you Know? Lenita 2004-06-03T16:38:07-05:00 http://www.development.umd.edu/ARHU/archives/000383.html Contribute makes maintaining web pages easier Contribute, software produced by Macromedia, Inc., allows non-technical users to update, create, and publish web content to any HTML website. Made by the same company that produces Dreamweaver, Macromedia Contribute has a much simpler... Cool Tools... Lenita 2004-06-03T16:37:02-05:00 http://www.development.umd.edu/ARHU/archives/000384.html More help is on the way! New ARHU Computing Services Staff Member On June 1, Chris Watkins became the newest member of the Academic Computing Services Staff. He will join Jon Boone, Chookeat Jarvis and Alex Constellanos in providing desktop... Operations Updates... Lenita 2004-06-03T16:36:32-05:00 http://www.development.umd.edu/ARHU/archives/000381.html ElementK Online Software Tutorials through OITwww.helpdesk.umd.edu/elementk Need to learn more about a particular software application but don't have the time to attend a workshop? OIT has made an online tutorial service available to the UM campus and its called Element... Website Spotlight... Lenita 2004-06-03T16:35:22-05:00 http://www.development.umd.edu/ARHU/archives/000316.html Technology-Enhanced Classrooms are Growing in Number Each year the College works closely with the Campus Teaching Facilities Committee to expand the number of technology-enhanced classrooms in buildings where Arts and Humanities faculty teach. The Teaching Facilities Committee has committed... Feature Article chays 2004-04-01T10:16:37-05:00 http://www.development.umd.edu/ARHU/archives/000319.html Point, Click, Presto Gretchen Jones, a SLLC faculty member who teaches a course on Japanese Fiction & Film, used the new Technology Classroom in Jimenez for the first time this past Fall. The classroom is ideal for teaching a course... Faculty Focus! chays 2004-04-01T09:50:59-05:00 http://www.development.umd.edu/ARHU/archives/000320.html Beware of Viruses- don’t open those attachments! With all the new computer viruses appearing, we want to be sure that people do not open attachments that have an extension of .exe, .bat, .com, .pif, .scr, .mp3, or .zip (they should... Operations Updates... chays 2004-04-01T09:35:29-05:00 http://www.development.umd.edu/ARHU/archives/000318.html Teaching with Technology Conference, April 9, 2004 Technology is facilitating enhanced and meaningful teaching and learning experiences for NetGeneration learners. The Office of Information Technology, in conjunction with the Center for Teaching Excellence and the University of Maryland Libraries, is... Did you Know? chays 2004-04-01T08:24:09-05:00 http://www.development.umd.edu/ARHU/archives/000321.html MERLOT- Peer-to-Peer Pedagogy MERLOT, Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching, is an online community where faculty, staff, and students from around the world can share online learning materials and pedagogy. MERLOT's mission is to improve the effectiveness of... Website Spotlight... chays 2004-04-01T05:50:00-05:00 http://www.development.umd.edu/ARHU/archives/000276.html ARHU TELL, Technology in Education and Learning Letter Welcome to the first issue of the College of Arts and Humanities’ Technology in Education and Learning Letter, an electronic newsletter. The College’s Academic Computing staff will use this tool to bring... Feature Article Lenita 2004-02-01T12:00:00-05:00 http://www.development.umd.edu/ARHU/archives/000274.html You have multiple levels of technology support -- local desktop support, local instructional technology support and local nightime classroom support. In addition, you have campus-wide helpdesk support from OIT. ARHU Desktop Support is just a Page Away Call 5-2104 to... Did you Know? Lenita 2004-02-01T11:45:12-05:00 http://www.development.umd.edu/ARHU/archives/000275.html Tired of the mountain of floppy disks, CDs, or zip disks with your research and/or course information that you transport back and forth from home to work? There is a new form of storage that is smaller, faster and even... Cool Tools... Lenita 2004-02-01T11:30:18-05:00 http://www.development.umd.edu/ARHU/archives/000273.html Robert Gibson, Professor of Music, talks about his use of digital audio in the classroom. I have used computers in my professional work as a composer since the mid-1980s. Having experienced first hand the shortfalls of applications that have promised... Faculty Focus! Lenita 2004-02-01T11:00:16-05:00 http://www.development.umd.edu/ARHU/archives/000272.html More Spam Please....Not! We’ve all gotten them—those annoying, unwanted e-mails that clog our inbox and make us sigh with frustration. By now, most people know what spam is, but not everyone knows how to get rid of it. By the... Operations Updates... Lenita 2004-02-01T10:27:08-05:00