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Keep teaching in times of high absenteeism or campus closure

Keep Teaching

A flu epidemic or service outage due to weather can cause serious disruption of classes.

IU has two key resources to provide you with information about remote teaching and collaboration technologies: The keepteaching.iu.edu web site and the IU Knowledge Base (KB).

IU’s IT communicators bring home 2009 SIGUCCS awards

NU2ITIU's IT communicators won a Best of Category award and four Awards of Excellence at the 2009 Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services (SIGUCCS) conference in St. Louis, Missouri.

The SIGUCCS awards go to leaders in the field of IT communication in higher education. Several of IU's Awards of Excellence went to campaigns and products focused on communicating to students about IT, a goal outlined in the latest UITS strategic plan, Empowering People.

Winning with Windows 7

Windows 7 UltimateAlready purchased or seriously considering Windows 7? Your cost for the DVD is only $20 thanks to the IU/Microsoft Campus Agreement. You're anxious to get started with the latest from Microsoft. So what's next? How can you get the most of out of Windows 7 and learn to use it like a pro?

UITS has all of your bases covered -- from helping you make sure your computer meets all the minimum requirements to upgrade your operating system, to learning about all of the new Windows 7 features and keeping your computer secure.

Events
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Earth as Art contest: GIS Day 2009
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Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom to keynote GIS Day on Nov. 18

From environmental research to market tracking, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and mapping technologies impact countless public and private enterprises.

On Wednesday, November 18, IU will celebrate GIS Day to show how geography and GIS technologies make a difference in our lives:

* What: GIS games, giveaways, demonstrations, and displays — plus Dr. Elinor Ostrom’s keynote on “Using GIS and Remote Sensing to Study the Effects of Diverse Institutions”

* Main event: November 18, from 10am to 3pm in the main lobby of the Herman B Wells Library (IU Bloomington)

* Keynote: By IU professor Elinor Ostrom, 2009 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, 5pm at the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center

For details, go to:

http://gisday.indiana.edu

If you’re on Facebook, add it to your events:

http://bit.ly/RilKS

Also, don’t forget about the Earth as Art contest — see entry guidelines at:

http://uitsnews.iu.edu/?p=1699