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News: December 2017

Free workshops for Classroom Technologies including Blackboard, Turnitin, Lecture Capture with Panopto, iClicker, and Electronic Portfolios will be held for faculty during the month of January. Learn more and register. 

Please join us on January 9, 2018 for the first ITConnects event of the year. This is a two-part event and builds on themes that came out of the 2017 MOR Leaders Conference.

On Thursday, November 30, 2017, Rajesh Bhaskaran, Ph.D., Swanson Director of Engineering Simulation, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, presented to the IT@Cornell community on how he is using Amazon AppStream in the classroom. 

Cornell is committed to making its websites accessible to everyone. Siteimprove Priority helps you strategize and strengthen your web accessibility focus. Siteimprove will now also let you recrawl your site outside of the set schedule of every five days.

If you have used technology in an interesting way to teach your course, do research, or have found a unique way to use existing technology, we would like to hear your story.

On Friday, December 1, 2017, Dave Lifka, vice president and chief information officer for Cornell, welcomed the newest members of CIT. As part of a reorganization effort, 17 IT staff from Infrastructure, Properties, and Planning have joined the CIT team.

The next CU Women Lead meeting will take place in 142 Goldwin Smith Hall on Tuesday, December 5, from noon to 1:00pm. This brown bag event will be a discussion of the new Cornell mentoring tool. You will have an opportunity to learn about its functionality and features, set up your profile,...