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Participate in Our Programs :: Educational Technology Showcase Series (ETSS)

2007-2008 Series

The Educational Technology Showcases demonstrates technologies available on the Illinois campus that can be used in teaching and learning. Showcases are presented by CITES and other IT units on campus. This series includes Web Collaboration, Web 2.0, Visual Communication, Content Management Systems, Course Management Systems, and Web 3.0 Technologies. Showcases are held on Thursdays for 50-minutes in 23 Illini Hall.

February 7, 2008
Wiki

Teachers are finding wikis powerful enhancements for student writing assignments and group work. Additionally, campus teachers, researchers, and departmental staff have begun using wikis as platforms for web sites that require no special software or web design expertise to easily publish professional-looking content. Examples of successful campus wikis hosted by CITES and Computer Science on the Confluence wiki system will be showcased along with significant features of the system.
This showcase is presented by Robert Baird of CITES and Drew MacGregor of Computer Science.

February 14, 2008
Beyond Bullet Points: Suggestions for Effective PowerPoint Lectures

Do you use PowerPoint slides in your teaching? Are you looking for ways to make your slides more effective? We'll provide an overview of text and graphical design issues so you can leverage the power of visual displays in your lectures, and improve the usefulness of posting your PowerPoint presentation slides to your course management system.
Presented by Brian McNurlen of CITES and Jim Witte of Applied Technologies for Learning in the Arts & Sciences (ATLAS, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences).

February 28, 2008
Elluminate

Over the past few years, there has been an increasing demand for a synchronous component to deliver distance education courses online. Elluminate is a live Web Conferencing tool designed to meet this growing need by allowing instructors to incorporate extensive levels of live and interactive components from face-to-face classrooms into an online environment. At Illinois, the use of Elluminate to deliver online courses has increased fivefold over the last four years. This presentation will showcase a variety of Elluminate tools instructors may incorporate in teaching their distance courses.
This showcase is presented by Hannah Choi and Tony Suttle of Academic Outreach.

March 6, 2008
Digital Media

There are many approaches to taking advantage of audio and video in teaching for use in-class or outside. From recordings of class lectures and instructor-produced podcasts, to lab demonstrations and videos of student performances, instructors at the University of Illinois are making use of a wide array of techniques. Examples of audio and video used in campus courses will be showcased.
This showcase is presented by Richard Langlois of CITES and Paul Riismandel of Applied Technologies for Learning in the Arts & Sciences (ATLAS, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

March 27, 2008
Moodle

Moodle is an open source course management system which has been adopted by many large institutions, including UCLA, the Department of Mathematics at The Ohio State University, and the Open University of the United Kingdom. Here at UIUC, Moodle has been deployed by the College of Education, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences, and the Curriculum, Technology, and Education Reform distance education program. This presentation will cover:

  • The pedagogic philosophy of Moodle and an overview of its general features
  • Importing or creating class materials in the Moodle environment
  • Using Moodle to create a highly interactive environment for both on-campus and distance education courses
  • Moodle server specs and design
  • User administration

This showcase is presented by Tony Hursh of Curriculum, Technology, and Education Reform (CTER, College of Education) and Geoffrey Brewster of Applied Technologies for Learning in the Arts & Sciences (ATLAS, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences).

April 10, 2008
iTunes U

This educational technology showcase will focus on iTunes U on the Illinois campus and how it can be used in teaching and learning with technology as well as other uses for departments and units.
Presented by Leslie Hammersmith and Ed Glaser of CITES.

April 24, 2008
Segue: A Campus-wide Web Publishing Service for the Illinois Community

Ever wish you had an easy way to publish to the public web? Are you an instructor who wishes for a way to have all your students to use the same system to publish projects or presentations to the public web? Applied Technologies for Learning in the Arts & Sciences (ATLAS) provides "Segue" (segue.atlas.uiuc.edu) as a service to the Illinois community, as a way to facilitate web publishing for instructors and students. Illinois faculty, staff, and students use Segue to write blogs, provide podcasts, publish reports, and develop portfolios. Using Segue does not require pre-approval, just log in to get started. The presentation will show examples of what instructors and students are currently doing with Segue, and demonstrate how to get started with Segue.

This showcase is presented by Jim Witte of Applied Technologies for Learning in the Arts & Sciences (ATLAS, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences).