The Office of Instructional Consultation

Web Development Resources for UCSB Faculty

The Office of Instructional Consultation (http://www.oic.id.ucsb.edu/) 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/web/.
Training On Demand (http://tnd.ic.ucsb.edu/); One on one training and consulting service on web technologies.

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.

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 (http://www.lsit.ucsb.edu/web/) 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.

Instructional Resources’ Production Services (http://www.id.ucsb.edu/IR/PRODUC/produc.html) 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 (http://www.lsit.ucsb.edu/facilities/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.
The Faculty Media Center (http://www.id.ucsb.edu/IR/TP/fac.html) consists of five networked workstations for non-linear video editing, scanning, multimedia authoring, and so forth. These stations are reserved for use by faculty and graduate students working on instructional improvement projects under the auspices of Instructional Consultation and are also available on a recharge basis.
Instructional Computing labs (http://www.ic.ucsb.edu/faculty/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.

The OIC offers Faculty Workshops on Technology and Teaching (http://www.oic.id.ucsb.edu/ under Technology and Teaching).
LSIT offers training on a variety of web-related tools (http://www.lsit.ucsb.edu/training/), and has online support at http://www.lsit.ucsb.edu/web/web_help/ as well as support and consultation on specific issues via the Helpdesk (help@lsit.ucsb.edu).
Instructional Computing (IC) offers training on a variety of web-related tools (http://tnd.ic.ucsb.edu/).
This year, the first "Faculty Institute: Teaching with Technology" will be offered for UCSB faculty members June 17-19, 2003. The Institute is a joint effort of Instructional Consultation, Instructional Computing, and L&S Information Technology, and will consist of three all-day series of presentations and hands-on workshops. For more information, contact George Michaels at george@id.ucsb.edu.

Instructional Resources’ Classroom Services (http://www.id.ucsb.edu/IR/classroom/classrm.html) provides 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).

The Office of the Registrar (http://www.registrar.ucsb.edu/) 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 (http://www.ic.ucsb.edu/faculty/labs/) labs can function as classrooms with computers, data and video projection, network services, and fast web access.

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.

At this time, most students have access to networked computers at their residences, so student access to web-based course materials is not the issue that it once was.
To reserve computer lab time for instruction or discussion, or to arrange for your class to have drop-in access to computer labs, visit the Instructional Computing Faculty Services web page at http://www.ic.ucsb.edu/faculty/.
Student access to web-based course materials is also available at the LSIT labs (http://www.lsit.ucsb.edu/facilities/labs/), computer labs in the residence halls, and various departmental labs and access stations.