Publications CITations #110

CITations

December 19, 2003
No. 110

CITations is a report featuring information technology-related news of interest to UNC-Chapel Hill faculty members, graduate instructors and the staff who support them. CITations, published twice a month, is an electronic service of the ITS Center for Instructional Technology.

CIT Moves Offices to Hanes Hall
CIT Conference Calendar Upgraded/Moved
Humanities Computing Group January Meeting
SILS to Present Digitization Workshop
Linux Users Mailing List Created
November & December 2003 Issues Of CIT Infobits
Raleigh Demographic Analysis Workshop
ITRC Tip: Write on a Slide During a Presentation
ITRC Tip: Early Christmas Present from Google
CITations Tips Archive
Conference Announcements
2004 CITations Publication Schedule
How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to CITations

CIT MOVES OFFICES TO HANES HALL

On Friday, December 19, the ITS Center for Instructional Technology staff currently located in the basement of Smith building will move their offices to the 4th floor of Hanes Hall. After the move, exam scanning and course evaluation services will be located in Hanes. The CIT video services staff will remain in Peabody Hall.

If you have questions, contact Kathy Thomas at 962-6042.

CIT CONFERENCE CALENDAR UPGRADED/MOVED

The UNC-Chapel Hill Center for Instructional Technology maintains the "Calendar of World-Wide Educational Technology-Related Conferences, Seminars, and Other Events" website. Recently, we upgraded to a new version of our calendar software (iCal from Brown Bear Software at http://www.brownbearsw.com) and moved to a new URL. This has resulted in a more reliable service and should eliminate the periodic outages we experienced with the older version. The calendar is now available at http://confcal.unc.edu:8086/.

(Note: during the CIT's move to Hanes Hall on Friday, December 19, the calendar will be offline while the server is in transit to our new offices.)

HUMANITIES COMPUTING GROUP JANUARY MEETING

The January meeting of the Humanities Computing Group will feature a talk by Hugh Cayless on EpiDoc. EpiDoc is a set of guidelines and tools under development by an international team to support the electronic encoding of ancient inscriptions (writing on stone, wood, metal, etc.) The EpiDoc guidelines are based on the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). (See http://www.tei-c.org/ for information in the TEI.) The EpiDoc project website is at http://www.unc.edu/awmc/epidoc/.

When: 2:00 p.m., Friday, January 9, 2004
Where: 215 Manning Hall

For more information on upcoming meetings, subscribe to the group's mailing list at http://mail.unc.edu/lists/read/subscribe?name=humanities_computing.

SILS TO PRESENT DIGITIZATION WORKSHOP

UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science (SILS) is collaborating with the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), the University of Glasgow, Fondren Library at Rice University, and Duke University's libraries to present "Digitization for Cultural Heritage Professionals." This year's program will be held May 16-21, 2004, at SILS, with a day at Duke University's Perkins Library. For more information and to register, go to http://www.ils.unc.edu/DCHP/.

LINUX USERS MAILING LIST CREATED

UNCLug (UNC Linux Users Group), a mailing list for community-based Linux support for the UNC-Chapel Hill campus, was created this month. Anyone interested in contributing or receiving free support for Linux can subscribe at http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/unclug/. An archive of posted messages will be publicly available for future reference and new members.

NOVEMBER & DECEMBER 2003 ISSUES OF CIT INFOBITS

CIT Infobits is an electronic service of ITS Center for Instructional Technology. Each month the CIT's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. To subscribe go to http://mail.unc.edu/lists/read/subscribe?name=infobits.

Articles in the November 2003 issue (http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/bitnov03.html) include:

IT Trends and Issues
Data Deluge
Online Content Design Guides
Libraries and E-learning

Articles in the December 2003 issue (http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/bitdec03.html) include:

Does Information Technology Matter to Higher Ed?
Guides for Online Teaching
Important Website Properties
Digital Reads
Book Describes Best Practices for Distance Learning
EDUCAUSE 2003 Resources Online

All back issues of CIT Infobits are available on the Web at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/index.html.

RALEIGH DEMOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS WORKSHOP

The Local Demographic Analysis Workshop (LDAW) will teach you to extract, query, download, analyze, map, and present 2002-1990 demographic data for Raleigh and surrounding communities. These data can provide grant writers, social researchers, and community planners with powerful tools for analyzing community changes.

In this hands-on workshop participants will use data from the 2002 American Community Survey (ACS) and 2000/1990 Census of Population and Housing for small-area, regional, and national analysis. Participants receive a LDAW workbook that includes the workshop presentation, exercises, reference materials, and a Demographic Data Resource CD. This CD includes useful GIS tools such as ArcExplorer and several shapefiles for the entire U.S. Participants will also receive Information Activist, a quarterly e-letter highlighting new data-rich websites and interesting social research.

For a detailed agenda, description of materials, and to see workshop reviews, visit http://www.smartgirltechnologies.com/asp/workshops.asp.

When: Wednesday, February 11, 2004
or
Thursday February 12, 2004
This is a one day workshop. Participants may choose either day.

Where: 4000 Centregreen Way, Cary, NC 27513

Fee: $225 for payment at time of pre-registration, $249 regular price

ITRC TIP: WRITE ON A SLIDE DURING A PRESENTATION

As a presenter, haven't you wished you could write on a slide--to draw a diagram or underline a word, for example--in the middle of a slide show? Microsoft PowerPoint includes a virtual annotation pen that enables you to write on a slide while giving a presentation.

To use the annotation pen during a slide show:

1. Open the presentation in Slide Show view.

2. Right-click in the window, point to Pointer Options, and click Pen. Now you can use your mouse as a pen.

3. When you are done using the pen, press ESC.

ITRC TIP: EARLY CHRISTMAS PRESENT FROM GOOGLE

In keeping with the spirit of the season, here's a couple of neat tricks for using Google to keep track of what Santa's elves have done with your packages:

Google will now search for UPS, FedEx and other numbers:

UPS tracking numbers example search: "1Z9999W999999999"

FedEx tracking numbers example search: "fedex 999999999999"

Patent numbers example search: "patent 5123123"

FAA airplane registration numbers example search: "n199ua"

FCC equipment IDs example search: "fcc B4Z-34009-PIR"

The link for this on the Google site is at http://www.google.com/help/features.html#number.

For more computing assistance, contact the Information Technology Response Center, Undergraduate Library.
Walk-in Hrs: 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Submit a help request on the Web: https://www.unc.edu/ar-bin/websub/index.pl
Tel: 962-HELP -- 24 hours/7 days a week
Email: help@unc.edu
ITRC website: http://www.unc.edu/atn/itrc/

CITations Tips Archive

The ITRC, CBT, and Listserv tips published in CITations are archived on the Web, so you can locate tips without having to search through all the back issues. The tips archive is at http://www.unc.edu/cit/citations/tips.html.

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS

Stay informed about technology conferences with the CIT's "Education Technology and Computer-Related Conferences" at http://www.unc.edu/cit/guides/irg-37.html and "Calendar of World-Wide Educational Technology-Related Conferences, Seminars, and Other Events." The calendar is at http://confcal.unc.edu:8086/.

2004 CITATIONS PUBLICATION SCHEDULE

January 9 & 23
February 6 & 20
March 5 & 19
April 2 & 16
May 7 & 21
June 11 & 25
July 9 & 23
August 13 & 27
September 10 & 24
October 8 & 22
November 5 & 19
December 3 & 17

CITations welcomes announcements from all UNC-Chapel Hill campus organizations involved in instructional and research technology. To have an announcement considered for publication in CITations, send email to Carolyn Kotlas, kotlas@email.unc.edu, or call 962-9287. The deadline for submissions is 11:00 a.m. the day before the publication date.

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