LSS News - November 2009

Workshop: Delivering Video for a Teaching Portfolio

November 13, 2009 by Chad Shorter

L&S Learning Support Services will conduct a workshop on using QuickTime (Pro) and iDVD to deliver the video portion of a Teaching Portfolio. These concepts build off of the workshop on obtaining useful video footage for a portfolio, but attendance at the previous workshop is not a prerequisite. The workshop is open to all college instructors (faculty, staff, and TAs).

New Web Survey Hosting Service

November 11, 2009 by Lisa Jansen

UW-Madison faculty, staff and students can now create web surveys, collect and store data, and produce reports using Qualtrics Survey Hosting Service. The best part is that there is no cost to UW-Madison faculty, staff and students! The service is being subsidized by UW-System.

The new service includes:

Should I upgrade to Windows 7?

November 9, 2009 by Sara Ziemendorf

Every time there is an update of any sort of software, the question inevitably arises. Should I upgrade?

New DVDs Available for Checkout from Learning Lab

November 5, 2009 by Mary Prochniak

LSS has recently acquired DVDs in the following languages and topics:

Arabic, South Asia, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Tamil, and General Interest (see Interdepartmental category).

The new DVDs are available for checkout in the the LSS Learning Lab, 259 Van Hise Hall. Here is a list:

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