PIRATE PORT: ONESTOP BUT WAAAAAY BETTER

OneStop goes one better. For the last decade, OneStop has been the mainstay of pirate business for students and staff. But with its outdated, unwieldy interface, OneStop just isn't as user-friendly as it could be.

Enter Pirate Port.

To learn more, see the features introduction at the Pirate Port blog or log in for a sneak peek at pirateport.ecu.edu.

TASTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Online Presentation | https://tegr.it/y/t10d

Screencast of the Taste of Technology: A Sampler of Tools for your Online Course session from November 2012. Overview of Tegrity lecture capture software, Centra Web conferencing tool and the Respondus LockDown Browser feature in Blackboard.

THINK-IN 2013
April 3, 2013 | Joyner Library

Mark your calendars for the 8th annual Think-In* in Joyner Library, April 3, 2013. This year offers attendees a new format with concurrent breakout sessions plus the ever-popular poster presentations.

*Call for proposals coming soon

EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting
February 4th - 6th, 2013 | Online (Austin 308)

Join ITCS-Academic Technologies and EDUCAUSE for the Online EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting. Watch presentations as a group and interact with fellow participants through chat. To join, please register on the ECU Training Calendar and to view full program details, please visit http://www.educause.edu/eli/events/eli-annual-meeting. For further information, contact Ginny Sconiers at sconiersg@ecu.edu.  

See the current edition of the ECU Learning Technologies Digest for the following news and events:

Lecture Capture Classrooms - Mediasite and Tegrity Mediasite and Tegrity allow you to record and share your classroom lectures with both face-to-face and distance education students. Both lecture capture systems conveniently give students access to lectures they can review as often as needed. To learn more about Mediasite, contact the Instructional Technology Consultant (ITC) for your Academic Unit. To learn more about Tegrity, visit the Tegrity Blog.

Blackboard Assessment Best Practices Still fine tuning your assessments in Blackboard? Having constant issues with student test completion? Explore some of these suggestions and tips to make better and more reliable exams.

What is Second Life? Used by both the public and private sector and 400+ universities around the world, Second Life creates a digital version of the real world. You can meet with distant colleagues and students “face-to-face” through digital avatars, collaborate on a project as if standing in front of them, and many more. To learn more about Second Life and establish your virtual world presence, contact Sharon Collins at collinss@ecu.edu.

New Resource for Turning Technologies Clickers Interested in acquiring more training for Turning Technologies clickers? A Turning Technologies intern on campus will be offering training sessions starting in February! To sign up for sessions, visit the ECU training calendar (http://training.ecu.edu/).

Custom Multimedia for Instruction ITCS offers the Univeristy Multimedia Center (UMC), which is a resource that designs and develops multimedia projects for faculty. To initiate a project, submit a proposal at: http://www.ecu.edu/cs-acad/umc/proposalform.cfm or contact Laurie Godwin at godwinl@ecu.edu. 

• Introducing PiratePrint, a convenient new service allowing you to upload a print job from any computer and pick up in Austin 104. 
• Did you know that faculty, staff and student Piratedrive storage is now up to 40GB?
• Seagate Hard Drive Recall for Apple iMac - see if your Mac qualifies.
• Installing Windows 8 causes network connection problems, especially for students connecting from residence halls.