TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY - RESOURCES FOR BU FACULTY

This page is an effort at compiling information about BU's instructional technology resources. Please write to us if you have anything you would like to add.

See also...

• The Center for Excellence in Teaching "Using Technology" pages
• BU Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLTR)
• The Office of Teaching, Learning, & Technology (MED)
• The Educational Media Center (MED)
• The (SED) Instructional Materials Center

Course e-mailing lists

Class mailing lists are available to faculty as described at www.bu.edu/cet/technology/email.html or www.bu.edu/computing/mailinglists/. It is not necessary to develop a class mailing list within your own e-mail program.

Development tools

Tools for building instructional materials are available through IT's Office of Networked Information Services (NIS) as described at www.bu.edu/webcentral/. As detailed at www.bu.edu/webcentral/training/, tutorials are available in Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, and other Web-development topics.

NIS also offers support and services related to instructional tools like Wikis, Courseware (Blackboard/WebCT), forums, polls, site statistics, News/RSS, PHP, MySQL, Apreso, and Webcasting. NIS will also provide information about departmental and individual Web sites.

Information and tutorials on the use of FileMaker Pro database software, PowerPoint, Photoshop, other office productivity software, and networking information is available through this site (the IT Help Center).

Classroom and conference technical support

Classroom media support is available through IT's Media Group, www.bu.edu/media/ which provides classroom equipment, a vast film library, and related services.

Faculty will find instructions for use of a notebook computer in a lecture setting at www.bu.edu/pcsc/desktop/projection/.

BU Connect, BU's Web Conferencing service, is described at http://www.bu.edu/telecom/admin/services/webconference/index.shtml.

Video and Web/Pod casting

Video production services are provided by Boston University Productions. BU Productions works closely with Networked Information Services and the Office of New Media, as needed, to provide distribution of video on VHS or DVD, and through sites like BUniverse or similar.

"Clicker"/student response systems

are available through The Center for Excellence in Teaching.

Professional development

Boston University is a member of NERCOMP which allows you to attend workshops at a member rate, and sometimes at no charge. Check the NERCOMP site at www.nercomp.org for a current schedule of sessions.

Tutorials offered by the Office of Information Technology are listed at www.bu.edu/computing/tutorials.

Self-paced tutorials are available as described at www.bu.edu/pcsc/tutorials/selfpaced/.