University of Illinois Monthly Announcements
s The New Illinois Compass: What You Need To Know Between May 21st and June 9th (2007) we will be transitioning to new and improved hardware for Illinois Compass, and upgrading from WebCT Vista 3 to Blackboard Vista 4. This Illinois Compass Upgrade offers an improved look and feel, smarter navigation, and new teaching and learning tools and options, as well as a more robust and powerful backend. The transition should be relatively seamless for students, but instructors and designers are encouraged to learn about the new system through at least one other method beyond self-guided clicking around. Instructors and designers using Compass can request individual consulting, attend a 50 minute Orientation Session or Brown Bag event, explore our soon-to-be-revised online documentation, or attend formal, hands-on training, beginning June 9th. Just like moving from one home to another, our move to a new Compass home means that we have to decide what stuff we need to throw out, recycle, give away and actually take with us. The “movers” (CITES) will automatically move over all Compass timetable courses from Fall 2005 to Spring 2007. Older courses, non-traditional courses, as well as development or practice courses will not be automatically included in the move. IMPORTANT NOTE: Development courses and practice courses (“Designer and Instructor Experience Course for . . . [your name]”) will no longer be available once the new system is online. For these courses we encourage owners to backup old grades, download files, and so forth. If you really, really, really want to save that old stuff and pack it up for the move, you'll need to contact CITES EdTech. You can contact us any time for assistance by emailing or calling our offices at: 333-1078. For those who can’t wait until May to see the latest version of Illinois Compass, we will have several demonstration sessions in April and May where we will preview some of the interface changes and new features in the upgrade. For those who will be teaching in the Fall 2007 semester and want to develop their courses before the system upgrade, please contact us to setup a consulting appointment. Feature Announcement Educational Technologist Forum The Educational Technologist (ET) Forum is envisioned as a community bringing together staff, faculty, and graduate assistants involved in the creation, delivery, and support of digital (web-based) instructional material on the U of I campus. The ET Forum is intended to be informal in structure, combining open meetings, structured professional development programs, listserv, web site, and networking opportunities. The goal is to help participants achieve the missions of their units and/or their academic pursuits by: Sharing ideas among members Exploring and organizing professional development opportunities Conceiving and implementing new projects Facilitating collaboration Increasing campus awareness of the important work done by these professionals. To subscribe to the ET Forum Discussion listserv, email: EFORUM-request@LISTSERV.UIUC.EDU Partner Events Upcoming Events Orientation to the New Illinois Compass April 4, 2007 10:00 A.M. ~ 11:00 A.M. 23 Illini Hall Orientation to the New Illinois Compass April 10, 2007 1:00 P.M. ~ 2:00 P.M. 23 Illini Hall Orientation to the New Illinois Compass April 12, 2007 10:00 A.M. ~ 11:00 A.M. 23 Illini Hall Orientation to the New Illinois Compass April 18, 2007 3:00 P.M. ~ 4:00 P.M. 23 Illini Hall Orientation to the New Illinois Compass April 20, 2007 9:30 A.M. ~ 10:30 A.M. 23 Illini Hall Orientation to the New Illinois Compass April 24, 2007 11:00 A.M. ~ 12:00 P.M. 23 Illini Hall Orientation to the New Illinois Compass April 26, 2007 12:00 P.M. ~ 1:00 P.M. 23 Illini Hall Visit our Workshop Offerings for more information about other workshops offered by EdTech. Resources CITES Educational Technologies http://www.cites.uiuc.edu/edtech/ Illinois Compass Login http://compass.uiuc.edu Course Site Requests http://www.cites.uiuc.edu/edtech/teaching_software/compass/siterequest.html CITES Classroom Technologies http://classtech.cites.uiuc.edu/ CITES Help Desk http://www.cites.uiuc.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 VLOG Webopedia and Wikipedia describes a Vlog as a blog that includes video, also known as a video blog. Regular entries are typically presented in reverse chronological order and often combine embedded video or a video link with supporting text, images, and other metadata. Vlogs often take advantage of web syndication to allow for the distribution of video over the Internet using either the RSS syndication formats, for automatic aggregation and playback on mobile devices and personal computers. Brown Bag Event Teachers Taking Advantage of Web 2.0 April 11, 2007 23 Illini Hall 12:00 P.M. ~ 1:00 P.M. Contact Us CITES Educational Technologies 2304 Digital Computing Lab (DCL) 1304 W. Springfield MC-256 Urbana, Illinois 61801 (217) 333-1078 edtech@uiuc.edu This list is used by CITES Educational Technologies for the sole purpose of updating Teaching with Technology users about upcoming events.
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Monthly Announcements

The New Illinois Compass: What You Need To Know

Between May 21st and June 9th (2007) we will be transitioning to new and improved hardware for Illinois Compass, and upgrading from WebCT Vista 3 to Blackboard Vista 4. This Illinois Compass Upgrade offers an improved look and feel, smarter navigation, and new teaching and learning tools and options, as well as a more robust and powerful backend.

The transition should be relatively seamless for students, but instructors and designers are encouraged to learn about the new system through at least one other method beyond self-guided clicking around. Instructors and designers using Compass can request individual consulting, attend a 50 minute Orientation Session or Brown Bag event, explore our soon-to-be-revised online documentation, or attend formal, hands-on training, beginning June 9th.

Just like moving from one home to another, our move to a new Compass home means that we have to decide what stuff we need to throw out, recycle, give away and actually take with us. The “movers” (CITES) will automatically move over all Compass timetable courses from Fall 2005 to Spring 2007. Older courses, non-traditional courses, as well as development or practice courses will not be automatically included in the move. IMPORTANT NOTE: Development courses and practice courses (“Designer and Instructor Experience Course for . . . [your name]”) will no longer be available once the new system is online. For these courses we encourage owners to backup old grades, download files, and so forth. If you really, really, really want to save that old stuff and pack it up for the move, you'll need to contact CITES EdTech.

You can contact us any time for assistance by emailing or calling our offices at: 333-1078. For those who can’t wait until May to see the latest version of Illinois Compass, we will have several demonstration sessions in April and May where we will preview some of the interface changes and new features in the upgrade. For those who will be teaching in the Fall 2007 semester and want to develop their courses before the system upgrade, please contact us to setup a consulting appointment.

Feature Announcement

Educational Technologist Forum

The Educational Technologist (ET) Forum is envisioned as a community bringing together staff, faculty, and graduate assistants involved in the creation, delivery, and support of digital (web-based) instructional material on the U of I campus. The ET Forum is intended to be informal in structure, combining open meetings, structured professional development programs, listserv, web site, and networking opportunities. The goal is to help participants achieve the missions of their units and/or their academic pursuits by:

Sharing ideas among members
Exploring and organizing professional development opportunities
Conceiving and implementing new projects
Facilitating collaboration
Increasing campus awareness of the important work done by these professionals.

To subscribe to the ET Forum Discussion listserv, email:
EFORUM-request@LISTSERV.UIUC.EDU

Partner Events

Upcoming Events

Orientation to the New Illinois Compass
April 4, 2007
10:00 A.M. ~ 11:00 A.M.
23 Illini Hall

Orientation to the New Illinois Compass
April 10, 2007
1:00 P.M. ~ 2:00 P.M.
23 Illini Hall

Orientation to the New Illinois Compass
April 12, 2007
10:00 A.M. ~ 11:00 A.M.
23 Illini Hall

Orientation to the New Illinois Compass
April 18, 2007
3:00 P.M. ~ 4:00 P.M.
23 Illini Hall

Orientation to the New Illinois Compass
April 20, 2007
9:30 A.M. ~ 10:30 A.M.
23 Illini Hall

Orientation to the New Illinois Compass
April 24, 2007
11:00 A.M. ~ 12:00 P.M.
23 Illini Hall

Orientation to the New Illinois Compass
April 26, 2007
12:00 P.M. ~ 1:00 P.M.
23 Illini Hall

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

Resources

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

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

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

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

CITES Help Desk
http://www.cites.uiuc.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

VLOG

Webopedia and Wikipedia describes a Vlog as a blog that includes video, also known as a video blog. Regular entries are typically presented in reverse chronological order and often combine embedded video or a video link with supporting text, images, and other metadata. Vlogs often take advantage of web syndication to allow for the distribution of video over the Internet using either the RSS syndication formats, for automatic aggregation and playback on mobile devices and personal computers.

Brown Bag Event

Teachers Taking Advantage of Web 2.0
April 11, 2007
23 Illini Hall
12:00 P.M. ~ 1:00 P.M.

Contact Us

CITES Educational Technologies
2304 Digital Computing Lab (DCL) 1304 W. Springfield MC-256
Urbana, Illinois 61801
(217) 333-1078
edtech@uiuc.edu

This list is used by CITES Educational Technologies for the sole purpose of updating Teaching with Technology users about upcoming events.

Subscribing

This e-newsletter is sent to Teaching and Learning with Technology users who have received consulting or training from CITES Educational Technologies.

Please forward this message to anyone interested in Teaching and Learning with Technology.

To subscribe or unsubscribe from the list, please email us at training@edtech.cites.uiuc.edu