Faculty Administration

Useful Links

Wimba is a web-based conferencing tool designed to support online courses and meetings. Users can set up a web "room" for virtual office hours, consultation, teaching, or meetings. Wimba also integrates seamlessly with Blackboard and other CMS systems for web-based or web-supported courses. Your campus faculty assistance center and/or distance education staff will have more information about Wimba. Training is online and free -- and your students will be happy they didn't need to drive to campus. You can also visit the UEN Wimba page for quick teaching tips called "Wimbits."

http://www.uen.org/wcs/

 

UEN Faculty Lounge offers 30 rewarding minutes of technology instruction for more advanced users. The web-based conferences are held live every Thursday from 3:30 to 4:00 beginning Sept 4th and sessions are also archived for on-demand viewing. To view archives of past sessions or sign up for a weekly faculty lounge email reminder, visit: http://www.uen.org/facultylounge

 

CollegeMedia is a collection of thousands of video programs from PBS and other providers. You can download the programs for free, and they are iPod compatible. Some collection highlights:

 

* Follow Me in Chinese and Fun Ways with Chinese (715 clips)

animated video with PDF lesson sheets

 

* KUED local productions including the Governor's Monthly News

Conference and Utah NOW

 

* A People's History of Utah Series (188 items)

 

* Foothill Native Plants (13 items)

 

* Geography of Utah (545 items)

 

* Hispanic Culture of Utah (111 items)

 

* Utah History Encyclopedia (221 photos, 578 articles)

 

* Utah Place Names (4617 items)

 

You can access CollegeMedia through Blackboard, your campus library, or request access here http://www.uen.org/collegemedia/access/index.jsp

with any valid campus email address. http://www.uen.org/collegemedia/

 

Using the UEN-hosted Blackboard Course Management System, many campuses are able to share templates, orientation modules, and other course content. It's a real time-saver for faculty. Several SCORM modules and templates are also available for the UEN-hosted Blackboard system. Check with your campus faculty assistance center http://www.uen.org/distance_ed/resources/faculty.shtml to learn more about these tools and resources. http://www.uen.org/cms/

 

To continue to get UEN updates:

Higher Ed website http://www.uen.org/highered/

 

RSS NetNews (paste this link in your RSS feed reader) http://www.uen.org/feeds/netnews.rss

 

Email resources@uen.org