ITL UpdateITL Conference 2003March 17-18.ppt

ITL UpdateITL Conference 2003March 17-18 Ed Garay Instructional Technology Lab /itl Academic Computing and Communications Center University of Illinois at Chicago ITL-East opens ITL-East The ITL-East officially opened this semester Room 401 CCC750 South Halsted Street Open Hours: Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 1-5pm, and by appointment ITL-West ITL-West The original ITL is now the ITL-West Room 181 BGRC1940 West Taylor Street Open Hours: Mondays and Thursdays from 1-5pm, and by appointment ITL contact info Email: itl@ Phone: 312.996.9824 Web: /itl Appointments No appointments needed during ITL-East or ITL-West Open Hours Otherwise, click on making reservations on ITL home page Other faculty development programs ITL Faculty-Focused Weekly Workshops Tuesdays, 10am-noon, in 408 CCC /seminars ITL Faculty Development Weeks /itl/workshops Getting Started Workshops Week 12: April 7-11, in 408 CCC Week after finals: May 12-15, in 408 CCC Advanced Topics Workshops Week 13: April 14-18, in 408 CCC Other faculty development programs ITL happy to schedule faculty development sessions at departments (in your building) A minimum of five (5) faculty members or teaching support staff is required Sessions could be standard ITL training in Blackboard CourseInfo, Web authoring with Dreamweaver, Acrobat, PowerPoint, and so forth, or specialized sessions on any topic related to the use of educational technologies Blackboard CourseInfo Blackboard continues to grow at UIC 1,800+ (pruned) course sites 1,400+ individual instructors Spring 2003 statistics 670 active courses 20,000 active students 790 individual instructors Support site: /itl/blackboard Blackboard 6 deployment Blackboard 6 Learning System is the enterprise version of Blackboard Blackboard 6 to go in production in mid-May Full migration of Spring 2000+ course sites Integrated with UIC netids and passwords (Bluestem) Possible BuildingBlocks installation: WYSIWYG authoring toolbar, WebBoard connector and Respondus (ba