Computer Resources on Campus
Contents:
Resource Guides for Applications and Software
Instruction Guides:
You can install certain applications on your office/home
computer for free by contacting
Catherine Hays Zabriskie, Arts and Humanities
CD Loaner Program, Electronic Media Center.
Other Resources:
How do I?.....
Training, Assistance, and Technical
Support
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Computer Help Desk,
Room 1400, Computer and Space Science Building, 301-405-1500, helpdesk@helpdesk.umd.edu
The Help Desk can answer a variety of computing questions via phone
(8:30-4:00 pm M-F) or through email inquiry. The Help Desk's website
also maintains a list of answers to frequently-asked questions.
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Electronic
Media Center, 3311E Art/Sociology Building, 301-405-7772.
The Electronic Media Center is one of the best computing resources
on campus for Arts and Humanities faculty and staff. The Center is equipped with state-of-the-art computers,
scanners, and hardware for video and audio digitizing, and has software for a variety of different projects
and applications. The EMC has open lab hours, and offers FREE workshops
in such topics as creating web pages, scanning and manipulating
digitized images, creating electronic presentations in PowerPoint,
and digitizing audio and video.
Catherine Hays Zabriskie, who manages the EMC, is an excellent resouce
and is also willing to meet individually with
those faculty and staff who want further assistance with computer and
web-related projects. She can be reached
at helpdesk@helpdesk.umd.edu
chays@deans.umd.edu.
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Computer
Short Courses, Office of Information Technology Training Services,
Computer Building, 301-405-0443, oit-training@umail.umd.edu. The Office of Information Technology offers a number of half-day to full-day workshops
on such topics as creating a PowerPoint presentation, Netscape Composer, Adobe PageMaker, etc. The courses may
be taken by faculty and staff for a modest fee.
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Web Design and Developer Program, also offered through OIT three to
four times a year, trains faculty, staff, and students in the development and maintenance of on-campus web sites. The course costs $225 for faculty and staff.
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WebCT
Training Courses train faculty in the use of an application
that allows you to create a ready-made website for your course.
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Information
Technology Yellow Pages is a complete directory of computing,
networking, and telecommunications resourses on campus.
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Peer
Training classes, also offered through OIT, are short workshops
taught by students on a variety of topics. Workshops are open to students, faculty, and staff for a small
fee (usually $10), and many workshops are repeated throughout the semester.
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Faculty Technology Center where faculty can gain skills and share knowledge of the
use of information technology in the classroom.
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Electronic Workplace
Resources and Readiness Initiative is set up to help University
staff members develop necessary information technology skills, including training
in the Windows operating system and web browsing.
Campus Computing
Associate for the College
of Arts and Humanities. The Campus Computing Associates (CCA) program represents an effort
by the University of Maryland's Office of Information Technology (OIT)
to meet the unique technology needs of colleges and academic-support units
across the university. The CCA program also provides a way to share information
and foster communication about technology needs, services, standards, and
trends. The CCA group includes Campus Computing Associates, who promote
academic use of information technologies in the colleges, and Technology
Associates, who provide technical services in other academic-support units
on campus.
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Computing
Services Laptop and Projector Loaner Program, 301-405-2118,
can provide faculty members with a computer laptop and projector for use in any
classroom on campus equipped with a data jack.
If you want to present a lecture using a PowerPoint presentation or
an Internet site, you can call Computing Services
to reserve a laptop and projector, and they will bring you the equipment
and show you how to use it.
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Web Hosting and Development
Services hosts the University's web site and provides web
design and development services, web clinics and training, web space allocation,
web hosting on our servers, streaming media services, web-based access
to databases via Cold Fusion, and web site usability studies.
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Technology Enhanced
Learning provides leadership in using technology in education.
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Institute
for Instructional Technology provides skills training
and peer mentoring to faculty wishing to explore the ways in which technology
can be integrated into their course curricula. This joint enterprise exploits
the talents and resources of both campus units by providing hands-on, interactive
training, instructional design guidance, product development advice, and
pedagogical discussion and debate.
The IIT offers a series of training courses for faculty in the spring,
fall, and summer semesters.
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MITH: The Maryland
Center for Technology in the Humanities is an institute
based in McKeldin Library whose purpose is to foster use of technology in the humanities.
MITH offers several technology enrichment fellowships
and training workshops for faculty.
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Technical Support is available from Academic
Computing Services, directed by Kathy Russell, Director of Computing
Services, 301-405-2116; contact Jon K. Boone, Coordinator of Techinical Services, 301-405-2105, jkboone@deans.umd.edu
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Equipment
Loans of such hardware as laptops, projectors, and digital cameras
may be borrowed from the Information Techonology Library.
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Software Licensing
offers software products at low cost.
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Campus LAN Support offers
help with design and operation of campus computer networks.
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Acceptable Use of Computing
Resources lists rules for use of computing resources on
campus.
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Project NETthics
offers advice and guidelines on issues such as copyright and the Web.
Labs and Facilities
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Electronic
Media Center, 3311E Art/Sociology Building, 301-405-7772.
The Electroic Media Center is one of the best computing resources
on campus for Arts and Humanities faculty and staff. The Center is equipped with state-of-the-art computers,
scanners, and hardware for video and audio digitizing, and has software for a variety of different projects
and applications. The EMC has open lab hours, and offers FREE workshops in such topics as creating web pages, scanning and manipulating digitized images, creating electronic presentations in PowerPoint, and digitizing audio and video.
Catherine Hays Zabriskie, who manages the EMC, is an excellent resouce
and is also willing to meet individually with those faculty and staff who want further assistance with computer and
web-related projects. She can be reached at Catherine Hays Zabriskie.
- Computer Labs
on Campus
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Technology-equipped
Classrooms
Images
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The Caprina
Project is administered by Ellen Borkowski (ey9@umail.umd.edu)
of the Office of Information Technology to provide online access to digitized
images for use in various classes around campus. Our image collection,
which consists of digitized versions of our slide collection along with
other images pertaining to Classics, myth, and archaeology, is posted in
the Caprina directory on the Inform server. Unfortunately, though there
is currently no search mechanism in place for searching all the images
in Caprina, it is possible to search for images in our Classics
Database.
- There are other ways to look for Classics-related images that are posted
on Caprina. On the Caprina website are a list of pages of classes
with links to Caprina images. Some of the Art History and Architecture
classes have links on their pages to images of Greek and Roman painting,
sculpture, and archicture.
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Visual
Resources Center, Room 4213B Art/Sociology
Building, 301-405-4584, Director: Sarah Miller, sm150@umail.umd.edu,
a growing collection of slides, digitized images, and archaeological artifacts
used by faculty and graduate students in teaching and in professional presentations.
