Teaching & Learning Technology at UIC
Designing Learning Spaces
October 2009

Teaching & Learning Technology at UIC - a Mid-Fall Update

• Blackboard Learn 9 Next-Generation pilot underway
  • for more info, visit ITL home at www.accc.uic.edu/itl
  • click on Blackboard Learn 9 Next-Generation under ITL News
  • click on Blackboard 9 Next-Gen faculty Intro sessions
    
    
• new ACCC Flash Media Streaming Server (FMSS) - available campus-wide
  • visit the ITL Flash Streaming Support Website
    
    
• campus-wide access to the entire library of Lynda.com online training tutorials
  • see www.accc.uic.edu/training.html
  • see also www.accc.uic.edu/itl/lynda (unannounced)
    
• new UIC Student Multimedia Lab (SML)
  • essentially, an ITL for students
  • SML Website: www.accc.uic.edu/sml (unannounced)
    
    
• support for student Response Systems (aka "clickers)
  • ITL support Website: www.accc.uic.edu/itl/clickers.html
    
    
• support for campus-wide lecture capture systems
  
  
• personal and group blogs and wikis (outside of Bb course sites)
  • aka same Blackboard site blogs and wikis UI
  • ITL support Website
    
• Next up: ACCC Fusion (ETA: 1Q2010)
  • a social networking environment for UIC faculty, staff and students
  • akeen of a private, semi-private, semi-public or public Facebook
  • providing a rich Web 2.0 communication & collaboration environment
  • email itl@uic.edu if interested in testing it in January