Please check out the September 2009 NITLE opportunities. There is an interesting and diverse set of offerings including - pedagogical implications of wireless and mobile technologies, using technology for collaborative student projects, handling information overload, ethics of information, emerging technologies and so much more. If you wish to attend any of these opportunities, please email Mur Muchane

Everyone's had it happen at least once. You leave the domicile in a rush and reach your destination with only minutes to spare, whip out your computer or flash drive, and promptly discover you don't have the document you need. No? Then maybe you've lost that one bookmark you really wanted to revisit in the wash of hundreds of favorites, misplaced a receipt for an online purchase, or accidentally chucked an important piece of paperwork or business card.

All of these problems have a single, simple, elegant solution: Evernote.

I discovered Evernote months ago while it was in beta, tried it briefly, and forgot about it. For some reason, I wasn't impressed. Tweaked by friends who are avid users of the current release, I jumped back into the service two months ago, and have since become completely addicted. Evernote is, as its name implies, a single repository for your documents. Here's how it works.

We are pleased to announce the availability of Davidson's iTunes U site located at http://itunes.davidson.edu. iTunes U, the educational component of the popular iTunes music store, is quickly emerging as a dominant new platform in the delivery of educational, instructional and cultural content in a rich media format.

With that enticing bon mot, tools developers Print What You Like (PWYL) introduce a simple tool called PageZipper. This unique tool quickly and simply merges the contents of multipage articles into a single page for quick reading/skimming (ad-supported sites are notorious for breaking up their content to increase pageviews). PWYL's summary of PageZipper says it best:

Ever read one of those top ten lists or photo galleries where every item is on a different page? You spend more time clicking "Next" and waiting than actually reading anything. PageZipper is a free bookmarklet which automatically merges all the "Next" pages into one, so you can skip directly to the stuff you want.

It's no great secret. You know it and we know it -- few things in life are more boring than waiting for your computer to reboot. It's a time sink when you have work to do on the machine, and a distraction when you need to be working elsewhere.

It's also one of the single most important things you can do to keep your machine -- and the College's network -- safe and secure.

We invite you to let us know about your Fall semester 2009 classroom technology and course content needs. We will work on fulfilling those needs over the summer break and ask that you submit your request by May 15, 2009. Also, our Instructional Technologists are available to work with you in preparing course content.

To see the services and software currently offered in the technology classrooms and computers labs, please visit http://www3.davidson.edu/cms/x23259.xml. From here you may make additional requests. Software requested for the Spring semester 2009 will continue to be deployed for the Fall semester unless otherwise requested.

Thank you for helping us better serve your instructional computing and course content needs.

There's a lot of good information floating around the Web. That's a good thing. It's also a bad thing, since finding a few grains of wheat can require sifting a great deal of chaff. Search PDF helps you with that sifting when you need a book, ebook or instructional PDF.

Just open the Search PDF web page and enter a search phrase, book title, etc. From the list of returned links, you can open a direct link to the PDF (using your preferred viewer), or click View to preview the PDF using Scribd's iPaper (so there's no need to start up a separate piece of software on your machine). Search PDF is very much a single-purpose tool, but it does an excellent job of wading through the worst of the irrelevant material, helping you to narrow your searches more rapidly and effectlvely than a straight-up Google search.

You are invited to the semiannual used computer equipment sale on Friday, May 1st from 9:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. in the Sprinkle Room of the Knobloch Campus Center.

Computers will be sold on a first come first served basis. A signup sheet will be posted at 7:30 a.m. on Friday morning and doors will open at 9:00 a.m. Sales will be handled sequentially per the signup sheet. You or your designated representative will need to be present when your name is called to retain your place.

Webcontent\buildsite will be unavailable from 5 pm on June 1 through 7:30 am on June 3. Please plan accordingly for this downtime. The CMS software will be upgraded during this time. Upgrade details will be coming soon.

If you have any questions, please contact Paige Herman.