Staff

Facilitators: Diane Gossman and Dennis Blake
Date: Thurs., Oct 29, 2:30pm-3:00pm
Location: Dahl Centennial Union – Borlaug

Desktop Messaging is a service which allows faculty and staff the opportunity to retrieve Voice Mail messages via e-mail from your office or while away from your office. This demonstration will show you the features of Desktop Messaging.

Facilitators: Diane Gossman and Dennis Blake
Date: Thurs., Oct 29, 2:30pm-3:00pm
Location: Dahl Centennial Union – Borlaug

Desktop Messaging is a service which allows faculty and staff the opportunity to retrieve Voice Mail messages via e-mail from your office or while away from your office. This demonstration will show you the features of Desktop Messaging.

Encouraging Student Participation with Clickers

Sponsors: Dean’s Office and LIS
Facilitator: Rebecca Sullivan (LIS)
Date: Thurs., Nov. 12, 3:00-4:00pm
Location: Olin 301 – Round Table Room
Registration: Limit of 20. Please sign up below.

“Clickers” are simple personal response devices that resemble remote controls.

Sponsor: LIS
Facilitators: Ryan Gjerde (LIS)
Date: Tues., Oct. 20, 9:00-10:00am
Location: Olin 301 (Round Table Room)
Registration: Limit of 20 (sign up below)

This workshop will introduce participants to social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter. Participants will walk through the steps for creating accounts, configuring privacy settings, and using the basic functionality provided by these sites. This session is intended for those at the beginner/novice level, but all who want a refresher on social networking websites are welcome!

Sponsor: LIS
Facilitators: Loren Toussaint (Psychology), Jennifer Green (Sociology), Ryan Gjerde (LIS)
Date: Thurs., Oct. 15, 4:00-5:00pm
Location: Olin 301 (Round Table Room)
Registration: Limit of 20 (sign up below)

This workshop will walk participants through the process of downloading datasets from the ICPSR website and opening them in SPSS. SPSS 17 is a statistical analysis software, and is available in all PC computer labs. It is also available to be installed on faculty and staff workstations.

Facilitator: Diane Gossman
Date: Thurs., Nov. 19, 2:45-3:45pm
Location: Olin 301 – Round Table Room

This LIS training focuses on working with forms, which is located within the Docs component of Norse Apps.

Facilitator: Diane Gossman
Date: Thurs., Oct 8, 2:45-3:45pm
Location: Olin 301 (Round Table Room)

This LIS training covers the Docs components of Norse Apps. All faculty and staff are welcome to attend this session.

Together, we will experience Norse Docs (which includes forms, word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations) and the collaboration this product encourages.

Facilitator: Diane Gossman
Date: Thurs., Oct 22, 11:00am-12:00pm
Location: Olin 301 – Round Table Room

This LIS training covers the Mail component of Norse Apps. The focus of this session will be on features that have become available during the past year and techniques to save you time. All faculty, staff, and students are welcome to attend.

A sampling of topics includes the following:

• Canned responses (i.e.

Facilitator: Diane Gossman
Location: Olin 301 – Round Table Room

The Norse Calendar is the primary campus calendar as of January 1, 2009. In this session, we will use Norse Calendar to create events and share calendars with anyone (and everyone). The focus of the presentation will be on features that have become available during the past year and techniques to save you time.

Facilitator: Diane Gossman
Location: Olin 301 – Round Table Room

This training session has been scheduled as an introduction for those who are switching to Windows Vista & Office 2007 as part of the staff rollout, though all are welcome to attend. To request a session for your department, contact the LIS Technology Help Desk.

Windows Vista is the latest version of Microsoft’s operating system, after Windows XP.Windows Vista upgrades will be gradually phased in during normal computer replacement cycles. Windows Vista will replace Windows XP on your next computer.