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Welcome to the ITS quarterly newsletter

At Instructional Technology Services, we strive to engage, challenge, and nurture faculty in appropriate uses of educational technologies so they can prepare students for leadership in an information society.  To that end, we invite you to learn about some of the latest technologies and ways our services and resources may be used effectively engage students in learning.
Please feel free to contact us with project requests at its@spu.edu or at (206) 281-2170.
To learn more about ITS services, visit our website.
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5 Graphic Design Services available to Faculty

  1. Diagrams - Translating scribbles into instructional diagrams
  2. Websites - Personalized design for your faculty space website
  3. Animation - Moving pictures and diagrams
  4. Photo editing – Image archiving and scanning. Image restoring and enhancing
  5. PowerPoint - Templates and graphics

 

 design services screencast
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“Playing” with Technology All Day Long

technology is fun  

Each school year predictably begins with professors asking me one of two questions:

  1. What new technologies are you examining? Or,
  2. How do you keep up with all the changes?

Professors who ask the first question usually follow up with a statement about how fun my job must be to be able to spend all day “playing” with technology.

Professors who ask the second question usually follow up with a statement about how they were just getting use to the last round of changes and they have no idea how I can keep track of all the updates...
...(read more of David Wicks' article).
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Workshops

Missed a workshop?  Need a quick refresher?  Feel free to peruse our helpful online videos, tutorials, and handouts.  You’re also welcome to arrange a time to meet with an ITS staff member to learn more about these technologies.
What’s so fun about Blackboard 9.1?
Blackboard: The Basics
Blackboard: Wikis and Blogs
PowerPoint: Active Lecturing

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