UTPA Information Technology
Posted in Campus Technology, Cool Things, Emerging Technology, General on Oct 27th, 2009
The Division of Information Technology Computing Labs has traditionally offered students the use of computer hardware and software they might not otherwise have access to. Students now have access to personal computers at home, in their dorm rooms, or traveling with them from class to class.
Unfortunately, the software needed to complete their course work is [...]
Posted in Campus Technology, Cool Things, General on Aug 18th, 2009
Last year for the first time, we made it so that everyone using the University’s Exchange email system could see all official holidays and special days in their Outlook calendar. That proved to be pretty popular, so we’re pleased to announce that we’ve just finished rolling out this Academic Year’s holidays and special dates for [...]
Posted in Campus Technology, Cool Things, Emerging Technology, General on Aug 13th, 2009
The Division of Information Technology is conducting a trial to see how students perform when they use electronic textbooks instead of printed ones. Check out the blog for The eBooks Project to learn more.
Posted in Campus Technology, Cool Things, General on Sep 18th, 2008
How many times have you wondered when final exams begin? Or what day the twelfth day of class falls on? How about when the Christmas Holidays begin and end? This question seems to keep coming up year after year.
Last year, Information Technology developed a “holiday file” that made it simple for people to import all [...]
Posted in Cool Things, General on Aug 15th, 2008
It’s been a while since I posted but I want to share something exciting that is happening in the Valley and it involves Google.
In the spring of 2007 the Google StreetView Car was seen cruising around and scoping out UTPA’s campus. Google was taking street level pictures of the Valley for its online maps program. [...]
Posted in Campus Technology, Cool Things, Emerging Technology, General on Jan 29th, 2008
Technology Corner sends a big hello and welcome to the Center for Learning, Teaching, & Technology’s new blog. It’s the place to go to learn about everything that’s going on in the world of online learning, classroom technology, and the Center itself. It’s a pretty nice-looking site, too. Hopefully there will be even more campus [...]
Posted in Campus Technology, Cool Things, General on Dec 10th, 2007
A complaint we hear from time to time is that important UTPA dates don’t appear in our Microsoft Outlook calendars. When is the 12th Class Day? When will Commencement be? How about those UTPA holidays? To that end, we’ve created a little file that will load all the important UTPA holidays and other dates into [...]
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