In order to reduce page loading time, images for display on the web should be resized and compressed. Here is a Technical Training Tip page (http://wiki.colby.edu/x/AgCxAg) that will show you how to do this simple, but important, task.

The Instructional Media Center is now available to assist with academic media projects. The IMC, located in Lovejoy 406, is open from 10am to 5pm on weekdays and can help with course-related tasks ranging from scanning to converting analog materials to digital. For more information, please visit http://www.colby.edu/lrc/imc

Just getting started with Office 2007 on your PC? Using it, but still a little confused? Need an overview of where you find what on the new layout? Come to our next Academic ITS Technical Workshop: Office 2007... February 3, 2009... 1:00-2:30 in Keyes 104. Call Ext. 4217 (Mel Regnell) for more information.

If you plan to include a technology component or project in a course this spring that will require coordination with the Academic ITS group, please contact me as soon as possible so we may make plans to meet your needs. This includes projects that will require technical training assistance, utilize the resources of the Language Resource Center (LRC) in Lovejoy, the GIS and Quantitative Analysis labs in Diamond, or the Schupf Lab in Keyes. I can be reached at jason.parkhill@colby. …