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Lynda.com online training tutorials available at UIC (permalink)
Created on Wednesday, 04/01/2009 2:35 AM by Ed Garay
Updated on Wednesday, 04/01/2009 12:15 PM by Ed Garay

free online training tutorials
from Lynda.com

available during April 2009
to everyone at UIC

Dear UIC faculty, students and staff,

The Academic Computing and Communications Center (ACCC) is looking to expand and enhance its computer training workshops program. To that end, we are running a free campus-wide trial of the entire library of the Lynda.com online training tutorials during April.

Lynda.com has over 900 well-done easy-to-jump-around just-in-time self-service tutorials, available anytime, anywhere, with basic to advanced titles on Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Adobe Creative Suites, Flash, multimedia authoring, Apple Macintosh software, Google Docs, OpenOffice, Podcasting, Blogging, Web Accessibility, Databases, and much more.

Please tell your fellow students, faculty and staff!

Accessing Lynda.com tutorials

On-campus :: simply visit www.lynda.com, search for a title you wish to explore or take and click away to begin the tutorial(s).
Off-campus :: login with your UIC netid and password using the special UIC URL: http://proxy.cc.uic.edu/login?url=http://www.lynda.com and proceed as if you were on campus (see above)

Getting help
For more information, see www.accc.uic.edu/training.html, contact the ACCC Instructional Technology Lab (ITL) at itl@uic.edu or 312-996-9824, or email ACCC Computer Training Workshops directly at workshops@uic.edu.

Please tell us what you think
Tell us what you think about these Lynda.com online tutorials. Direct your comments (good or bad) to workshops@uic.edu. A survey will be posted at www.accc.uic.edu/training.html by April 15.

Sincerely,

Ed Garay
Assistant Director for Academic Computing (ACCC)

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Using Student Response Systems (clickers) (permalink)
Created on Wednesday, 04/01/2009 1:15 AM by Ed Garay
Updated on Wednesday, 04/01/2009 3:03 AM by Ed Garay

Student Response Systems (clickers)

Wednesday 4/8 demo/presentations
East campus, Richard J. Daley Library
Room LIB 1-210

ITL Clickers Support Website

Student response systems (aka "clickers") can bring very effective dynamic interaction and instant feedback to classrooms and presentation rooms. Clickers are small devices (like remote controls) that students use to transmit their responses to questions asked by instructors and presenters. Responses are typically recorded for attendance and/or class participation credit.

UIC faculty and teaching staff are cordially invited to two clicker-related demo/presentations hosted by the ACCC Instructional Technology Lab (ITL) on Wednesday 4/8, on the East campus, on the first floor of the Richard J. Daley Library, in room LIB 1-210 (right next to the ITL-East):

10:30am-12pm Using the eInstruction/PRS clickers at UIC
Susan Junior, eInstruction Corporation
Ed Garay, ACCC Instructional Technology Lab
1:30-3pm Using the iClicker at UIC
Liz Tassell, iClicker Corporation
Ed Garay, ACCC Instructional Technology Lab

Imagine surveying your class of 200+ students and instantly seeing how well they are understanding your lectures. Imagine modifying the rest of a lecture based on the immediate feedback from the class. Watch your class come to life whenever you spend a couple of minutes doing a handful of pedagogically sound clicker activities.

Today, these systems use wireless (radio frequency technology) for communication, the student response data is temporarily stored on instructors' hard drives, flash thumb drives or WebDisks, and later moved easily and seamlessly to Blackboard or to other class Websites.

For some time now, the ITL has been unofficially supporting two student response systems: i>Clicker and eInstruction/PRS. Today, the ITL is pleased to announce the official support of these systems. Several faculty from various colleges and departments already use clickers on campus: Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Psychology, Sociology, Math, Nursing, Engineering, Education, Medicine, Pharmacy, Latin American Studies, Kinesiology, Anthropology and Political Science.

The ITL looks forward to helping instructors use either one of these student response systems in class, helping instructors use the free clicker instructor's software for preparing the clicker activities ahead of time or ad hoc, as well as collecting the student response data for further analysis and/or seamless integration with Blackboard for attendance and/or other class participation purposes.

For more information, visit the ITL Clickers Support Website at www.accc.uic.edu/itl/clickers.html or contact the ITL at itl@uic.edu or 312-996-9824.

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