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The UW offers you two UW-branded sets of online collaborative tools that include calendaring, email, chat, storage, and more. Read about what you get with UW Windows Live and UW Google Apps, and then sign up at your Manage UW NetID Resources page. You can sign up for both, but select just one for your email.

It's easier to manage your courses online using the Catalyst Web Tools features added this year, and more enhancements are planned. Learn how these and cloud computing resources will contribute to a UW eLearning platform, and discuss how the university portal and mobile applications fit in. Sign up for a one-hour open house in July or August.

Teaching online is not just attempting to reproduce the classroom setting. It requires new approaches and tools that engage students to achieve their individual and collective goals. Read this profile to see how Dr. Jolly, with the help of the Catalyst Web Tools, has embraced online education.

Ever wonder about the large satellite dish perched atop Kane Hall? UWTV recently installed a de-icing device to keep the satellite signal strong when snow falls, as part of ongoing efforts to strengthen the university’s communication infrastructure on campus and beyond. The Aerospace Engineering Research Building dish kept UWTV up and running during installation.

UWTV engineers are working with national and international vendors, consultants, and UW Information Technology to bring next-generation online video managing and publishing to UW. Once its video library of 2,000 media objects is migrated, UWTV will schedule information sessions for departments with extensive video holdings looking for robust online solutions.

See UW Seattle weather data on the UW home page, thanks to Marketing’s Central Web Team collaborating with the Department of Atmospheric Sciences. The temperature is taken directly from the Atmospheric Sciences building rooftop. Just click the weather tab for an in-depth Seattle/UW forecast.

UW iSchool graduate students Shaun Kane and Kristen Shinohara took second place in the Imagine Cup international software competition for their application for visually impaired students to collaborate via Touch and Tablet PCs. The award is for creating a new education application that expands the possibilities for interacting with the computer. Read more.

Going on vacation? Looking for a good book? Graduating? Searching for work? Get summer tips from UW Libraries on how to renew your books online, continue borrowing, and more.