Category: New Technology
EduTech Day SUNY-Wide Conference “Teaching Learning and Sharing in the Cloud”
FACT2 Faculty Advisory Council on Teaching & Technology Friday, March 16th, 2012 Fashion Institute of Technology New York, NY John E. Reeve’s Conference Center and in the Katie Murphy Amphitheater The Cloud is an expanding, evolving environment where centrally located software systems facilitate interactive opportunities for a virtually limitless number of users— working from any location. [...]
Mini Retreat Breakfast: Social Networking on November 11th!
SOCIAL NETWORKING: Expanding Teaching and Learning with Global Outreach Dear faculty, You are invited to a mini-retreat breakfast on social networking on Friday, November 11, 2011. Please join Ruben Quinones, Director of New Media and faculty member at NYU, to explore the role of social networking in education and its potential to promote inclusion by bringing [...]
New TechHelp Self Service Site
IT 4 FIT is happy to announce that we have a new improved site for Self Service. Our previous site only allowed Students, Faculty and Staff to view Frequently Asked Questions. Our new site does that and much, much more. Students, Faculty and Staff can go to TechHelp.fitnyc.edu, log in with the same username and [...]
EduTech Day is here (well…. almost)
Tomorrow is EduTech Day at FIT and we are ready to go! The Great hall was set up today, lighting is moody (in a good way) and the presentations are race ready. We have unbelievable faculty and student presentations throughout the day and sponsors including Herman Miller, Adobe, Apple, Cisco. An Administrative panel discussing their [...]
Video of the day – Blogs in Plain English
With the recent release of WordPress blogs at FIT the buzz is all about and I have received lots of questions of how a blog is really different from a website, or a wiki. I am a huge fan of the “Plain English” videos so please allow me to present Common Craft’s, Blogs In Plain [...]
New iPad to be announced today? Follow Bloggers from the Event!
So here it is, finally, the long awaited announcement about the iPad2. So what will the differences be? Well previews and bloggers ‘in the know’ say that it will be thinner, lighter, and have a camera for video chats using FaceTime. Want the latest info from the Apple event today in SanFrancisco? Follow the live [...]
ASK IT: iPhone for Verizon E-Mail Set Up
ASK IT form questions & comments: From Carly Hewitt I just got the new iphone 4 for verizon and can’t get my e-mail set up. Answer: Thank you for your question, Carly. You can find instructions for configuring your phone to receive FIT email on the Self Service Help Desk website, IT 4 FIT updates [...]
WiFi for the iPad
ASK IT form questions & comments: From Xue Xia: Dear Support, I am wondering if the iPad is supported to get on the school wifi? Do I need to download some sort of anti-virus app in order to get on the network? Thanks! Xue Xia Answer: Hello Xue, Thanks for your question. I am posting [...]
Air Display for iPad
The iPad allows you to be incredibly portable and is a great alternative to lugging around a laptop in transit. However, most of us have a computer available to us once we get to our destination, which can often leave the iPad collecting dust next to it. Why not put it to work and use [...]
Google Cloud Connect with MS Office
An announcement was made last week that an invitation-only beta test is starting to try a new Google Cloud Connect with Microsoft Office. So what does that mean? This would allow you to synchronize spreadsheet, documents, and presentation files using the MS Office interface, but add the value of the easy to use collaboration component [...]
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