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November 2012                     Syracuse University
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Apple proposes new standard in reaction to EDUCAUSEŽ petition  
Apple industrial Ap
ple is redeveloping its wireless standards to seamlessly support enterprise networks. The changes are in part the result of an EDUCAUSE petition led by Lee Badman of ITS and backed by more than 750 IT managers around the world. Read more.
Common Ground

Telling the world about a visit from the Dalai Lama is not a simple task, yet the hard work of the IT and social media staff of SU's Advancement and External Affairs (AEA) department made sharing the One World events at SU look effortless. Read more. 

 

The website is an interactive slideshow of sage advice that links new students with fun activities and helpful resources to make University Hill more welcoming, safe, and rewarding. Read more. 

 ITS unveils Microsoft Lync at SU

Lync Microsoft Lync unifies instant messaging, audio conferencing, and video conferencing, all while tightly integrating with Microsoft Office 2010. Just as other Office programs are one-stop solutions for the types of work they do, Lync is a one-stop solution for communicating more efficiently at work. Read more. 

Perspectives
Education film "We're still teaching our kids using a 20th-century paradigm, but many visionaries--like the ones in this video--have plans to take our advantages in computing and technology and use it to explode the idea of what education can be." Read more at Co.Exist.
Wired Campus iconIn a video shown at the EDUCAUSE conference, CIO's and others emphasize that guaranteeing accessibility can be easy and even cheap. Read more at the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Tech Updates
  • Blackboard hosts 25% more courses than last year
  • Answers logs almost 440,000 page views since January
  • Dome wireless nets 2,000 concurrent clients during the Pitt football game
  • Orange Alert successfully messages nearly all of 30,330 target users.

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Campus gridComputing cores are up 44% in SU's HTC campus grid, helping SU lead participants in a worldwide computing project.

 

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The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications is now a Certified Apple Training Center! Final Cut Pro X training, taught by Certified Apple Instructor Jason Kohlbrenner, is open to beginning and experienced editors. Classes will be held Nov. 19-21 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Newhouse 1, Lab 205.

 

The course, including a textbook and the exam fee, costs $750 and is limited to eight students.

 

For more information, email newhousetraining@syr.edu

 

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