Upcoming ITL-East Faculty-Focused TechTalks (every Wednesday)

• Week 9 - Wednesday, October 22
  • 2pm  Creating Narrated PowerPoint Mini-Lectures with PointeCast Publisher
  • 3pm  Authoring Web-based Class Materials, Easily, with (free) LessonBuilder
    
• Week 10 - Wednesday, October 29
  • 2pm Using Digital Cameras, Image Compression, Sharing Your Pictures
  • 3pm Making Graphic Banners and Logos for Blackboard Sites or Any Website
    
• Week 11 - Wednesday, November 5
  • 2pm Collecting Homework Assignments Electronically
  • 3pm Expanding Class Office Hours over the Internet

LessonBuilder available for (free) downloading at e-Sales
SoftChalk's LessonBuilder, the easy-to-use and free Web authoring tool for instructors, is now available as a free download for UIC faculty and teaching staff from the ACCC e-Sales Website.  LessonBuilder makes it trivial to write syllabi and all sorts of class materials, from simple Web documents to engaging lessons with pop-up windows, lesson navigation, built-in online assessment and/or multimedia.  LessonBuilder is available for Windows and Macs.  If you need help using LessonBuilder, please contact the ACCC Instructional Technology Lab (ITL) at itl@uic.edu or 312-996-9824.

ACCC e-Sales Changes
As of Monday 10/20, ACCC e-Sales has now merged with Urbana's Webstore.  For the most part, everything looks the same to UIC folks, except we now have to login using our UIC email address (e.g. netid@uic.edu) and your UIC password.

Upcoming ITL Weekly (Tuesday) Webcasts
more-to-come

Wimba Voice Outage
more-to-come

Blackboard Next Generation System Overview & Faculty/class beta testers needed
more-to-come

Sloan Consortium Annual Conference in November
more-to-come

ITL Mobile Computing Week
more-to-come