Campus Web Development resources

Consultation

• The Office of Instructional Consultation provides guidance for the effective uses of technology in instruction, and can also provide coordination with OIC grant programs and Instructional Development production services.
• L&S Information Technology Services (LSIT) offers assistance on how to best use their services to design and develop course and departmental web pages through the Helpdesk (help@lsit.ucsb.edu) and on the web at http://www.lsit.ucsb.edu/.
• Training On Demand offers one on one training and consulting service on web technologies.

Training and Support

• The OIC, together with Instructional Computing offers introductory and advanced Gauchospace workshops for instructors.  Upcoming workshops are announced on the GauchoSpace Training and Documentation website.
• LSIT offers training on a variety of web-related tools (see http://www.lsit.ucsb.edu/training/) and provides online support and consultation on specific issues via the Helpdesk.
• Instructional Computing (IC) offers faculty members nine teaching labs for computer-base coursework. These labs are also available to enrolled UCSB students when courses are not being taught. For a real time schedule please visit: http://calendar.ic.ucsb.edu/
• Software training:  UCSB staff, graduate students, and faculty are eligible to enroll in training   programs in various popular software applications. For additional information, session descriptions and schedules please visit http://tnd.ic.ucsb.edu.
• In addition to the sessions above, IC provides undergraduate workshops on MS Office, Adobe’s Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and InDesign. For more information visit: http://training.ic.ucsb.edu/workshops/
• Moreover, IC offers archived short ‘how to’ visual tutorials in many software packages. To view or suggest a visual tutorial please visit: http://tnd.ic.ucsb.edu/tutorials/
• Each year before fall quarter, the 3-day  "Faculty Institute: Teaching with Technology"  offers for UCSB faculty members a series of presentations and hands-on workshops about teaching with technology, including Gauchospace.  The Institute is a joint effort of Instructional Consultation, Instructional Computing, and L&S Information Technology. For more information, contact George Michaels at george@id.ucsb.edu.

Production

• Instructional Resources’ Production Services provides a full range of media production services that can be used in support of web-based instruction, including Artworks graphics services, photographic services, sound recording, and video production. Faculty have access to an annual allocation of services available at no charge, and can use a variety of funding sources (including Instructional Improvement Grants and Minigrants) to purchase additional services.
• The LSIT labs have hardware and software tools to enable faculty to develop their own web-based instructional materials, including flatbed and slide scanners, multimedia editing applications, and web authoring applications.
  
• Instructional Computing labs have hardware and software tools to enable faculty to develop their own web-based instructional materials, including flatbed and slide scanners, multimedia editing applications, and web authoring applications.

Classroom Delivery of Web-based Instructional Materials

• Instructional Development's Classroom Services provides technical support for classrooms with computer, data and video projection, and network services, as well as equipment for pickup or delivery for those classrooms without built-in services. For information about specific classrooms and services, check the web page or contact J. O. Davis (davis@id.ucsb.edu, x2461).

Classroom Scheduling

• The Office of the Registrar can assist you in scheduling course meetings into classrooms with necessary equipment, such as video and data projection, internet access, etc. (hopwood-g@sa.ucsb.edu, x3602).
• Instructional Computing labs can function as classrooms with computers, data and video projection, network services, and fast web access.

Hosting

• There are many potential servers where course web pages may be hosted. It is important to identify where your web page will be hosted early in the development process to ensure you have access to the tools and technologies you will need. Check with your department to see where course web pages are usually hosted.
• LSIT’s web services provides web hosting for 36 L&S departments, dozens of projects, and hundreds of individual accounts. Available tools include MyWeb account management, template pages, a counter, search engine, chat portal, streaming media capability, mail cgi forms, access statistics and forums, with additional services always under development to better support user needs.
• Other possible hosting sites include departmental servers, and ERes (the library’s electronic reserves, at http://eres.library.ucsb.edu).
• Instructional Computing provides enterprise accounts for various faculty members and hosts files on their Mac and PC servers.

CourseWeb (http://courseweb.ic.ucsb.edu)

• For faculty and other instructors Instructional Computing provides facilities for adding your class web page to our index. Course web pages must be hosted within the .ucsb.edu internet domain to be eligible.

Student Computer Access

• Students can access web-based course materials at the LSIT labs, computer labs in the residence halls, and various departmental labs and access stations.
• Instructional Computing's labs contain expensive software titles that allow students who cannot afford these expensive titles do their work in a quiet and helpful environment.  Lab Access is available for any UCSB Student who either is enrolled in any of the classes scheduled in the labs at Phelps Hall, Kerr Language Lab or the LSCF.
• Additionally, Open Access computing environments are available for usage in Phelps Hall as well as the Student Resource Building.
• For a full list of computing labs available for students through Instructional Computing, please visit http://computerlabs.ic.ucsb.edu/location/
• To reserve computer lab time for instruction or discussion, to arrange for your class to have drop-in access to computer labs, or for an overview of any of Instructional Computing's services, please visit the Instructional Computing services web page.
• Student access to web-based course materials is also available at the LSIT labs, computer labs in the residence halls, and various departmental labs and access stations.
• The Digital Editing Lab in Instructional Development provides UCSB students with digital editing equipment and facilities. Lab use is restricted to students working on legitimate class projects approved by UCSB faculty. Contact Anita David, the Digital Editing Lab & Reserved Media Viewing Room Manager (david@id.ucsb.edu Ext 7420)

Funding Opportunities [as of 09/09, all OIC grant programs are on hold]

• OIC’s Instructional Improvement Grants and Faculty MiniGrants can be used to fund the development of technology-based materials to improve courses and curricula. (These grants are also available for non-technology-based improvements of instruction.) These grants can be used to fund production services and student assistance.
• Web Minigrants are intended to assist faculty members in using new technologies to improve courses and curricula. This is a new grants program offered on a trial basis as a collaboration between the Instructional Improvement Program, Instructional Computing, and L&S Information Technology.