Category Archives: Help Desk

Meet the Staff: Fall 2014 Edition – Sierra!

October 20, 2014 – 10:00 am

Hello, and welcome to Meet the Staff! Today’s fabulous Help Desk / Office of Instructional Technology and Design employee is Sierra Gregg! She just started at GSLIS as well as the Help Desk this fall, and has already found so many interesting things to learn that she has not been able to pick a concentration read more »

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Meet the Staff: Fall 2014 Edition – Kate!

October 6, 2014 – 10:23 am

Good morning! Today’s edition of Meet the Staff features the lovely tech guru, Kate Rojas, who hails from the great state of Pennsylvania! Kate is interested in a variety of topics within GSLIS, but specifically focused on K-12 Librarianship, Community Informatics, and Youth Services. She is concentrating on getting her specialization certificate, which you can read more »

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AV Upgrade in Room 126

April 1, 2014 – 10:55 am

It’s been a long winter, especially here at GSLIS. We were hit hard with a flood early on that took out one of our main computer labs. However, the community held strong and we couldn’t be more proud of the way everybody stood together during hard times. During these times, we still kept working to read more »

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Welcome new students! Meet the Help Desk/ ITD

September 9, 2013 – 2:17 pm

Hello new GSLIS’ers! In case you haven’t seen our signs, heard our speeches in class, or at orientation, or on Facebook or at the organization fair I thought I’d introduce our department one more time. We are the GSLIS Help Desk and ITD (Instructional Technology and Design). The Help Desk is open from 8-5 Mondays read more »

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#teamawesome profile meet Emily Bayci

September 5, 2013 – 9:33 am

Name: Emily Bayci Position Title: Graduate Assistant/ Teaching Assistant Year at GSLIS: 2nd year. or 18th grade. It’s however you want to look at it. Favorite food in C-U: C-U food is the reason I spend entirely too much money. Spoon House tacos. Chicken stew from Bombay Indian Grill. Stuffed peppers from Destihl. Fish Sandwiches read more »

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#Teamawesome Scavenger Hunt and New GAs!

August 22, 2013 – 1:04 pm

This week is training week for the new GA’s! We have a new group of wonderful and excited GAs here to assist the GSLIS community with their tech needs. As part of our arduous training schedule, they embarked on a technology scavenger hunt around the GSLIS building and virtually, using many of the resources you read more »

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Spring Clean Your Computer (in time for Fall)

August 14, 2013 – 1:12 pm

All summer we have been plugging away with spring cleaning efforts at the Help Desk (yes, I know it’s not Spring anymore) and I realized, we’re past the days of traditional spring cleaning. Now we have to worry about spring cleaning our computers! You might not think about it much, but cleaning your laptop or read more »

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Farewell…until 2013

December 17, 2012 – 10:53 am

The toughest thing about having an awesome assistantship with #teamawesome is that it is, well, an assistantship and you have classes as well as work. Hence, we’ve been a little absent. We’ll be back though! We’ve spent the past few weeks thinking up new workshops, tutorials, and blog posts for next semester. Here’s some of read more »

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ITPF 2012 Posting Series, Part 4: Thoughts on Richard Wolf’s Presentation, Dude, Where’s My Lab?…Five+ Things That Are Going to Happen

November 16, 2012 – 2:47 pm

If anyone was taking notes at ITPF 2012 like me, they would have noticed one buzzword quietly appearing in many presentations: mobile technology. There is no need though to point this out to Richard Wolf of the Academic Computing and Communications Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Wolf made it clear that he read more »

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ITPF 2012 Posting Series, Part 3: Thoughts on Solomon Roberts-Lieb’s Presentation, Research and Structure: Providing Fun and Function

November 16, 2012 – 2:45 pm

Team building can be one of those subjects that conjures up thoughts of seminars on business that use lots of clever acronyms and inspirational talks. The College of Fine and Applied Arts though is currently trying to take the concept out of the seminar room and into real work life for their IT team. FAA read more »