The UPS Office of Information Services is being renamed Technology Services.

A name change was proposed by new CTO Molly Tamarkin to better reflect the mission and place of technology services for the University. Several names were proposed, debated, and voted on by the OIS staff, who chose the new name Technology Services.

The name change has been approved by the President’s Cabinet and will be implemented in documents and signage over the course of the Summer.

We have added a tutorial page and video about VoiceThread.

VoiceThread is an online voice and video enabled forum. In it, you can create “threads” for presenting sequences of pictures, videos, and text. You can then allow others to comment on your thread, so a group can produce threads together. VoiceThread can produce highly collaborative, media-rich projects, but is very simple to use, since it is based on the conversational tools from the traditional online forum.

Our work on VoiceThread is part of our participation in the Language Technology Bootcamp hosted by The Foreign Language Resource Center of Pomona College.

Dana Flaskerud, of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, and Randy Thornton, Instructional Technology, represented UPS at the Bootcamp last April.