2001 FDI Northern Virginia Campus Track:
Using the Web for Instruction
Presenters:
Ed Schwartz
Phone: 231-4975
E-mail: ed.schwartz@vt.edu
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Interactive Resources at Virginia Tech

A. Instructional Support

Organizations at Virginia Tech that offer course development support, offer on-campus grant funding, support development tools, or provide other information in support of the creation of instructional courseware.


 
 

Course Development

Information Systems at VT-NVC http://computing.nvgc.vt.edu/
Information Systems http://www.vt.edu/IS/
Distance & Distributed Learning http://www.iddl.vt.edu/
VT Online - http://www.vto.vt.edu/
Faculty Development Institute - FDI (Summer, Spring and Fall workshops)
Educational Technologies - 3000 Torgersen Hall, 231-5879
Multimedia Lab - 2080 Torgersen Hall, 231-3356
New Media Center - 1140 Torgersen Hall 231-4826
Resources Available on www2.cyber.vt.edu - http://www2.cyber.vt.edu/docs/resources.html
Courses Offered by Educational Technologies - http://www.fdi.vt.edu/
Evaluating Internet Resources - http://www.lib.vt.edu/research/libinst/idle/evaluating.html
Copyright Information - http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/copyright/
More Copyright Information - Copyright PDF Document
On-campus Grant Funding
Center for Innovation in Learning - CIL (in Burruss Hall)
Center for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching - CEUT (118 Hillcrest Hall)
Tools
Virginia Tech Web Publishing Information - http://www.vt.edu/vt97/publish/wpihome.html
Virginia Tech Web Publisher's Toolkit - http://www.vt.edu/vt97/publish/wtkhome.html
Hokie SPA (Student Personal Access) - access grades, bills, class schedules - https://www.ban-vtweb.vt.edu/bprod/owa/twgkwbis.P_ValLogin
Creating and Managing Listserves - http://www.ucs.vt.edu/services/listserv/
Modify your PID information - https://www.ucs.vt.edu/pidtool/Default.asp
Modify your Name Server information (finger, ph) - Contact your departmental
HRIS liaison Courseware Server http://courseware.vt.edu/
Virginia Tech's Generic Mailer - takes the data gathered by a form and emails it to a user. Can format data into FilemakerPro, mini-SQL or Oracle formats if desired. Can specify the web page to return to users to thank them for submitting. - http://www.vt.edu/vt97/publish/generic-mailer-doc.html
MIT's CGIEmail, installed on www2.cyber.vt.edu - formats an email message using a template that you design. Can specify the web page to return to users to thank them, as well as a custom page for handling errors. Can mark some fields as required. -
http://web.mit.edu/wwwdev/cgiemail/user.html
http://web.mit.edu/wwwdev/cgiemail/example.html
http://web.mit.edu/wwwdev/cgiemail/advanced.html
Netforms for Macintosh - this package will save form data as new web pages, insert data into existing pages, save as tab delimited format, or send an email message. - http://www.econ.vt.edu/NFStart.html
Other Sites of Interest
CyberSchool http://www.cyber.vt.edu
VT Net - http://www.ucs.vt.edu/software/vtnet99/
Net Basics - http://www.lib.vt.edu/learning
History of the Internet http://osiris.sunderland.ac.uk/%7Ecb5awi/nethist.htm
What is a URL? http://www.thunderway.com/faq/te0001.htm
Yahoo's Listing of WWW Topics (hundreds and hundreds) - http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/Internet/World_Wide_Web/

 
   
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Instructional Development Initiative
Educational Technologies
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0232
John F. Moore
Director, Faculty Development Institute
Director, Educational Technologies
John.Moore@vt.edu, 540-231-8991