Event Date: Friday, Feb. 1, 2-2:30 p.m. Location: Webinar The University of Colorado Boulder has gone Google! Come join us and learn what Google Apps for Education, CU’s powerful new collaborative software package, means for you. Technology flash events are designed to provide busy university professionals with quick, high level introductions to powerful technologies. Sign up and learn more about OIT Flash Events on our website.

Fri, Feb. 1: Video Game Tournament (Madden '13), 7p.m.; Extreme Bowling, 7 p.m.-12 a.m. Sat, Feb. 2: Extreme Bowling Sun, Feb. 3: Bowling Leagues, 7 p.m. & 9 p.m.; Super Bowl XLVII Party! Mon, Feb. 4: Monday Night Bowl, $8 (2 hrs bowling, shoes, fountain drink) Tues, Feb. 5: Texas Hold'em Poker Tournament Thur, Feb 7: 9-Ball Billiard Tournament, 7 p.m. Fri & Sat, Feb. 8-9: Extreme Bowling Visit our website to see a full monthly calendar of events.

Event Date: Thursday, Jan. 31 - 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Event Location Atlas 200 The University of Colorado at Boulder is Going Google! What does this mean? How will it impact teaching and learning at CU-Boulder? Come learn more with Cory Pavicich, one of fewer than twenty rotating professionals invited by Google to regularly present at the prestigious Google Teacher Academy, and a leader in the CU-Boulder Google project. Sign up and learn more at our website

Event Date: Wed, Feb. 6, 2-3 p.m. A follow-up to the introductory class, Getting to Know D2L Part 2 explores how to grade a Dropbox item, outlines the Gradebook in more detail, and demonstrates how to create student assignment/discussion Groups and create/manage online Discussions. Prerequisites: Getting to Know D2L Part 1 Sign up and learn more on our Website

Event Date: Wed, Feb. 6, 1-2 p.m. This 60-minute class offers a guided tour of CU-Boulder's new online learning environment and aims to demystify the Desire2Learn platform. We will demonstrate commonly used tools - content uploading, news widget, basic grade book management and answer participants' questions about getting started with D2L. Sign up and learn more on our website.

Event Date: Tue, Feb. 5, 2013 - 12-1:30 p.m. Learn how to create online quiz using the D2L Quiz tool. D2L offers powerful online assessment system, allowing not only the creation of one time quizzes but also large question libraries that extend beyond a single class or semester. This class will look at the question library, various question types, and grading workflows. Sign up and learn more at: https://www.colorado.edu/oit/node/10351

Friday, Feb. 8, 12-1:30 p.m. in the WGST Gates Woodruff Cottage library, light lunch incl. This special panel unveils the El Salvador Human Rights Archives housed at CU-Boulder. The discussion will include the opportunities these archives present and the challenges associated with using the archives. Panelists include Michele Leiby, Asst. Professor at the College of Wooster, who has used the archives; Bruce Montgomery and Yolanda Maloney of Norlin Library who collected the archives; and Asuncion Horno-Delgado, from the Dept. of Span/Port.

Thursday, Feb. 7, 12:30-1:45 p.m. IBS 155 Dr. Michele Leiby, Asst. Professor of Political Science at the College of Wooster, is presenting her work based on a the El Salvador Human Rights Archive, a unique resource available only at CU-Boulder. This project examines patterns of state-perpetrated sexual violence and other forms of political violence during the civil war in El Salvador to understand why militaries engage in such violence. Sponsored by LASC, Univ. Libraries, Dept. of Political Science and Women & Gender Stds. Prog.

Learn how to roll a kayak or work on fine tuning your skills during this two-hour pool clinic on Tuesday, Feb. 5 from 6 - 8 p.m. in Clare Small Pool. Register at the Student Recreation Center by 3 p.m. on Feb. 5. Clinic is for rec center members.

The Bursar's Office will open at 9:15 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 1 so that the staff can attend a special training. Payroll checks will be available starting at 9:15 a.m.