The Creative Commons: Share Your Work While You Protect Your Rights
by Alan Bilansky

Lunchtime Learning Showcase:
Preparation and Presentation

Join us for lunch during these quick and friendly explorations of technology and pedagogy. This month focuses on answering questions about the use of common technology tools as you prepare to teach and present to your classes. All sessions are from 12:00 P.M. ~ 1:00 P.M. and held in 23 Illini Hall. Registration is preferred and snacks will be provided.

Audacity to XnView: Promising Shareware and Freeware for Teaching and Learning Applications

After Netscape and Beyond Internet Explorer: New Breeds of Web Browsers Offer New Opportunities - and Challenges- for Teaching with Technology

Preparing Documents for Illinois Compass to Improve Student Access and Use

Please visit the EdTech calendar to register.

Lunchtime Learning Featured Events

Creating and Using Question Test Banks for Exams, Quizzes, and Other Activities

February 2, 2006
12:00 P.M. ~ 1:00 P.M.

Do you use Microsoft Word or any other software to create and print your exams? Do you save these exams to disk? Do you eventually type exams over and over again as textbooks change? We have the answer for you. Respondus and StudyMate software can make your jobs much easier. More...

Getting Started with Blogs

February 14, 2006
12:00 P.M. ~ 1:00 P.M.

Join us as we review popular and influential blogs, explore various types of blogs, and provide hands-on blogging practice with Blogger's free service. In the hands-on portion of the workshop we will build a new blog, apply a style template, create our first blog post with hyperlinks, images, and more.

Quick Uses of Media Resources to Enhance Course Sites

February 16, 2006
12:00 P.M. ~ 1:00 P.M.
We will demonstrate some of the straight forward ways course designers may enhance their Illinois Compass course site through the use of various forms of multimedia. More...

Space is limited for these sessions. Please visit the EdTech calendar to register.

Partner Events

Building a Basic Illinois Compass Course
October 4, 2005
10:00 A.M. ~ 12:00 P.M.
23 Illini Hall

Are the Students Getting It? Using Surveys, Self-Tests, and Quizzes
October 4, 2005
2:00 P.M. ~ 4:00 P.M.
23 Illini Hall

Respondus
October 6, 2005
10:00 A.M. ~ 11:30 A.M.
23 Illini Hall

Building a Basic Illinois Compass Course
October 18, 2005
2:00 P.M. ~ 4:00 P.M.
23 Illini Hall

Illinois Compass Grade Book
October 19 , 2005
10:00 A.M. ~ 12:00 P.M.
23 Illini Hall

Visit our Workshop Offerings for more information about these and other workshops offered by EdTech.

Resources

CITES Educational Technologies
http://www.cites.illinois.edu/edtech/

Illinois Compass Login
http://compass.uiuc.edu

Course Site Requests
http://www.cites.illinois.edu/edtech/teaching_software/compass/siterequest.html

CITES Classroom Technologies
http://classtech.cites.uiuc.edu/

CITES Help Desk
http://www.cites.illinois.edu/help/

Center for Teaching Excellence
http://www.cte.uiuc.edu/

Blackboard
http://www.blackboard.com

Educause Learning Initiative
http://www.educause.edu/eli

Emerging Technology Term

WEB 2.0

The term blog is a shortened form of weblog or web log. A blog uses a conversational style of documentation in which journal entries are posted on a regular basis and displayed in reverse chronological order.

October 5, 2005
Writing with Video
presented by
Maria Lovett
12:00 P.M. ~ 1:00 P.M.
130 Wohlers

October 18, 2005
Using Multimedia Blogs to Manage and Encourage Writing and Revision
presented by
Christian Sandvig
12:00 P.M. ~ 1:00 P.M.
27 Illini Hall

Contact Us

CITES Educational Technologies
2304 Digital Computing Lab (DCL) 1304 W. Springfield MC-256
Urbana, Illinois 61801
(217) 244-7000
edtech@uiuc.edu

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