Students at UW Seattle can borrow a laptop as well as a digital camcorder, camera, or voice recorder, projector, audio system, and more. Checkout is three business days; some can be loaned for seven days. See the detailed list of equipment and photos online. UW Bothell and UW Tacoma run similar equipment loan programs.
This fall, the School of Medicine began supporting first- and second-year courses online with two Catalyst Web Tools, CommonView and GradeBook. Faculty have found the tools flexible and easy to use, and students have benefited from a consistent experience across courses. Read the full story.
Volunteer a few hours a year to be on a Client/User Engagement (CUE) team and have a voice in Catalyst Web Tools development. Sign up for the Technology Spaces CUE team to weigh in on the evolution of Learning & Scholarly Technologies' computer labs, collaboration studios, and videoconferencing and audio/video editing facilities.
Choose from over 30 free workshops offered by Learning & Scholarly Technologies for UW students, faculty, and staff. Topics include using software from Microsoft and Adobe, publishing a Web site, working with digital audio and video, and more. Check out the schedule.
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!
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.
As part of the UW Reputation Building Initiative, MyUW will release a new version in September that has a new graphical design by UW Marketing. A number of improvements by UW Technology make the site more user friendly. Now you can preview the new version and give your feedback via a short WebQ survey.
At UW Seattle, the knowledgeable Learning & Scholarly Technologies' student Help Desk consultants provide the computing assistance you need. Visit the Help Desks, located on the 2nd floor of Odegaard Undergraduate Library and in Mary Gates Hall 131, to gets answers to your computing-related how-to questions. Also, the Computer Vet service there can help you remove viruses and spyware from your personal computer.
Can't make it to a workshop? Need help now? Check out the handy how-to guides in Learning & Scholarly Technologies' online Help Center. You'll find step-by-step instructions for the Catalyst Web Tools, Web Site Creation, Podcasting, Adobe Dreamweaver and Creative Suite, and more.
Learning & Scholarly Technologies offers free computing workshops at UW Seattle for students, faculty, and staff. Workshop topics include software from Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe; how to publish Web sites; working with digital audio and video; and more. The Summer Quarter workshops have started and run through August 18. The schedule is online.
UWTV's new YouTube channel provides access to UWTV's best programming in YouTube's familiar format, and makes it easier to watch on your mobile device. For iPhone users: Bring up http://m.youtube.com/UWTV on Safari, tap the plus sign, and tap Add to Home Screen to add UWTV's YouTube site as an app. For other smart phones, bring up and bookmark the same Web page.
Now, when you make an online gift to the UW, you can automatically let your Facebook friends know. The receipt page has a button that links to the UW Foundation Facebook application, "Give to UW." It pops up a window that lets you link to your Facebook account and post information about your gift via a Facebook wall announcement.
