ITL Update
ITL Conference 2003
March 17-18
Ed Garay
Instructional Technology Lab
http://www.accc.uic.edu/itl
Academic Computing and Communications Center
University of Illinois at Chicago
ITL-East opens
ITL-East
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The ITL-East officially opened this semester
 Room
401 CCC
750 South Halsted Street
 Open Hours:
Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 1-5pm,
and by appointment
ITL-West
ITL-West
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The original ITL is now the ITL-West
 Room
181 BGRC
1940 West Taylor Street
 Open Hours:
Mondays and Thursdays from 1-5pm,
and by appointment
ITL contact info
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Email: itl@uic.edu
Phone: 312.996.9824
Web: www.accc.uic.edu/itl
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Appointments
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No appointments needed during ITL-East or
ITL-West Open Hours
 Otherwise, click on making reservations on
ITL home page
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Other faculty development programs
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ITL Faculty-Focused Weekly Workshops
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Tuesdays, 10am-noon, in 408 CCC
www.accc.uic.edu/seminars
ITL Faculty Development Weeks
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www.accc.uic.edu/itl/workshops
Getting Started Workshops
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Week 12: April 7-11, in 408 CCC
Week after finals: May 12-15, in 408 CCC
Advanced Topics Workshops
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Week 13: April 14-18, in 408 CCC
Other faculty development programs
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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
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670 active courses
 20,000 active students
 790 individual instructors
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Support site: www.accc.uic.edu/itl/blackboard
Blackboard 6 deployment
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Blackboard 6 Learning System is the enterprise
version of Blackboard
Blackboard 6 to go in production in mid-May
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Full migration of Spring 2000+ course sites
Integrated with UIC netids and passwords (Bluestem)
Possible BuildingBlocks installation: WYSIWYG
authoring toolbar, WebBoard connector and
Respondus (batch upload of Bb quiz question pools)
Additional integration with Library systems, UIIntegrate (SCT Banner), etc. to follow in 2003-04
Blackboard 6: new features
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Integration APIs and BuildingBlocks extensions
Oracle back-end (speed improvements)
Over 150 new features
Ability to move/copy/link content objects
Seamless content linking within courses
User-controlled text-based navigation bar
Built-in math and science notation
Blackboard 6: new features
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Completely re-architected assessment engine
New functionality
More feedback and delivery options
Improved Gradebook (inc. advanced sorting)
Support for letter grades, custom gradebook
categories, weight final percentages
Ability to upload grades from spreadsheet
applications and text files
Blackboard 6: new features
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Completely re-architected online collaboration
environment
Free-form chat, chat lectures, Q&A chat,
chat archiving
Shared whiteboard
Class tours and group Web browsing
Blackboard 6: new features
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New assignment management functionality for
collection, storage and organization of student
assignments and teacher feedback
Student submission of assignments directly to
related course content area
Teachers manage student files, corrected
versions, rewrites and feedback through
gradebook
Bulk assignment download and deletion
Miscellaneous
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RealMedia Helix streaming server
December2002 upgrade: MP3, RealVideo,
QuickTime, SMIL, and Windows media
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WebBoard 6 Jan2003 upgrades
WebBoard 6 now available campus-wide
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computing@uic interactive tutorial CD-ROM
(www.accc.uic.edu/computing)
Miscellaneous
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Help available on Web Accessibility
PDA support for Pocket PC and Palm devices
New support for Tablet PC technology
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Expanded digital video production and DVD
authoring capabilities
Web conferencing system evaluation
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Mallard to be discontinued in Fall 2003*
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