Help sessions for faculty needing to migrate old course content to the current MyUNL Blackboard environment will be held throughout October on both City and East campuses. After Nov. 1, courses prior to, and including, Spring 2011 will no longer be available online. Faculty must migrate content if they wish to keep it. Until Nov. 1, past course content can be accessed in the former Blackboard 9 environment http://bb9.unl.edu .

MyUNL (http://my.unl.edu) is the university’s Learning Management System. A new software version, Blackboard 9.1, was installed for courses beginning in Summer 2011, providing greater functionality and security.

For a complete schedule of help sessions and more information on Blackboard migration go to: http://is.unl.edu/myunlupdate

The West, 1898-1938: Treasures from the American Film Archives

Film history buffs and all who are interested in the depiction of the West in American film will love the chance to see several works drawn from the eagerly awaited Treasures DVD-set, a project of the National Film Preservation Foundation, that brings together 40 early movies showing the West as it's never been seen before.

The presentation will showcase Last of the Line (1914, 26 min.), one of the best examples of Westerns produced by Thomas Ince. The film highlights the story of the return of a young Indian, Tiah, from a White boarding school, and the terrible choice his father, Gary Otter, makes in order to uphold his promise to the cavalry.

New Web content editors and creators are invited to bring sign-on credentials (username and password) and their converted site URL (http://unlcms.unl.edu/~/ and spend a couple of hours with Mark Hiatt, going over the basics of creating, editing and deleting pages and components of your Web site in the new UNLcms. Learn to edit pages, footers, navigation and headings and learn to assign roles and permissions to users. A short break is provided, along with plenty of time for questions and answers. http://training.unl.edu