The Wesleyan Connection

Ganesan "Ravi" Ravishanker, associate vice president for Information Technology Services, welcomes Dena Matthews, publication production manager, to the "Backstage at Information Technology Services" open house Nov. 12. Matthews was learning about ITS's New Media Lab from Melissa Datre, director of the New Media Lab, pictured at right.

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Ganesan "Ravi" Ravishanker is associate vice president for Information Technology Services.

Ganesan Ravishanker, associate vice president for Information Technology Services, spoke on Wesleyan’s electronic portfolio Oct. 24 during the West Coast National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE) Group’s meeting at Reed College in Portland, Ore. The topic of the meeting was “Is There a Niche for e-Portfolios at Liberal Arts Colleges?”

In this presentation, Ravishanker provided a brief history of how ITS and Academic Affairs began developing an electronic portfolio in 1998 as part of a new curricular renewal initiative. The electronic portfolio was originally conceived to enhance the communication between (more…)

Information Technology Services is hosting an open house Nov. 12.

The Wesleyan community is invited to go “Backstage at Information Technology Services” during an open house Nov. 12.

Self-guided and guided tours for faculty, staff and students will be ongoing from 1 to 4 p.m. Raffle prizes will be awarded. Also, during this time, ITS will host three “acts.”

“ITS is hosting an open house to provide an opportunity for the community to visit our staff members in their environments, to learn about what they do, and in some cases to put a face with a person to whom they have either spoken on the phone or emailed,” says Ganesan “Ravi” Ravishanker, associate vice president for ITS.   (more…)