Instructional Technology Resources

Patrick works with a faculty member

Staff of the office of Information Technology are available to help faculty use technology for their teaching and research. If you'd like assistance from an instructional technologist, please call the IT Help Desk at 309-556-3900 to schedule an appointment.

Patrick McLane and Rick Lindquist are located in the Ames Library Thorpe Center.

Here are just some of the instructional technology resources available

Image Processing

  • color scanners, slide scanners, digital cameras
  • images from video, images from the web
  • manipulate with photo editing software (Photoshop)
  • OCR (optical character recognition)
  • photocopying directly to PDF via campus copiers

Audio and Video Processing

  • audio capture and manipulation with Audacity
  • audio file conversion, recording audio files on CD
  • video editing and projection, video file conversion
  • digital video cameras and video editing
  • working with QuickTime,  RealMedia,  Windows Media, Podcasts and YouTube

Classroom Presentations

  • color enlargements (PPMS), color transparencies, Poster printing (Thorpe Center)
  • PowerPoint presentations, Web Pages
  • document cameras

Intranet / Internet

  • creating homepages with Course Tools (MyIWU)
  • delivering courses via Moodle
  • web page assistance
  • discussion groups, message boards, blogs and wikis
  • Electronic Reserves (Ames Library)