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Recovering stolen cellphones, rescuing a laptop from an unscheduled dip in the pool and furnishing a local school library with new pcs. It's all in a day's work for the IT Student Centre. Read more on our community project with Kylemore Secondary School in today's newsletter, as well as an update on the future of Vista and Blackboard on campus. Keep in mind that all previous editions of this newsletter is also available online - packed with hints and information to make your relationship with your pc more amicable. Tech greetings, The IT crowd |
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E-WASTE PROGRAMME STILL GOING STRONG The IT Division’s e-waste programme continues to quietly do the right thing behind the scenes. During the period July 2012 to April 2013, Cape e-Waste Recyclers, our 325 Computers 162 Printers and Scanners 269 Monitors 3 boxes of general e-waste. Remember, if you have any e-waste lying around at home or in your office, contact us and we'll help you to get rid of it without harming the environment. The procedures by which IT assets should be decommissioned and placed into the e-waste stream are detailed on the IT Help wiki. |
MOODLE TAKES OVER FROM VISTA & BLACKBOARD From 2014 Stellenbosch University's electronic learning management system will switch from Vista and Blackboard to Moodle, an open source eLearning system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TURNITIN CLIPS PLAGIARISM'S WINGS Ever break out in a cold sweat in the middle of the night while you're huddled over one of your academic writings, fearing that your facts and statements might not be valid or original? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IT STUDENT CENTRE LENDS A HELPING HAND TO COMMUNITY PROJECT IT's Student Centre recently assisted with setting up and installing ten brand new computers at Kylemore Secondary School's library. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Over the past fifteen years the word "blog" has become part of our daily vocabulary and most of us visit some form of blog on a daily basis. In some cases we're not even aware of the fact that it's a blog. Since the emergence of blogs in the late 1990's their appearance and functions changed and developed. |
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