For the first time ever, the UW is offering email, calendaring, and other collaborative tools "in the cloud" for students, who can sign up for UW Windows Live and UW Google Apps beginning Sept. 28. Both vendors will be at the Student Tech Fair on Sept. 28, along with UW Technology, to showcase the services and answer questions. You can sign up online or at the fair!

All UW students, faculty, and staff are eligible to use the UW’s new centrally licensed anti-virus/anti-malware software from Sophos on their office and home computers at no cost. Start the quarter off right! This new software is available now from the UWare site. Get it today to help secure your computers.

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With the aid of three generous grants from the Student Technology Fee Committee (STFC), LST spent September break upgrading equipment and software in the Odegaard Undergraduate Library. These enhancements were made in response to the findings of the 2005 and 2008 Surveys on Learning and Scholarly Technologies carried out by LST, where students highlighted improvements to technology facilities as their top priority.

The UW's new iPhone application offers convenient mobile access to campus resources - such as the UW Seattle campus map and online directory - on the go. If you use a Blackberry, Windows Mobile, or a "text phone" you'll have access to much of the same information. Go to m.uw.edu on the Web to learn more and see a simulation, or on your mobile device to get the app. In the first ten days, there were over 3500 downloads.

Faculty, staff, and students are invited to Digital Media Demo Day at UW, presented by UW’s Digital Media Special Interest Group and UWTV. Don't miss several presentations from Sony representatives on Tuesday, Sept. 29 in UWTV's Kane Hall studio. Explore tapeless workflow options, watch camera demonstrations, and check out new digital signage solutions. Attendees will also have a chance to win a Sony Blu-Ray HD player. Doors open at 9:00 a.m.

If you would like to get your course online before Autumn Quarter begins, attend one of our free September workshops. You can learn how to give your course an online presence, set up a WebQ survey or quiz, or use Catalyst GradeBook to track and submit grades. These workshops are free to anyone with a UW NetID, but registration is required.

The all new Catalyst Web Tools account page will help you find what you need quickly and focus on what is important to you, whether you are managing a course online, working on a collaborative project, or accessing course materials, resources, or grades. You can view a brief video tour of the changes.