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ITCWeb: Multimedia Meta-Index


UVa Multimedia Meta-Index

This page, maintained by The Instructional Technology Group is a collection of local resources for creating and using multimedia at the University of Virginia. For your convenience, the page is divided into the following categories:

Centers a list of UVa technology-related resource centers
Courses links to various technology-related courses offered at UVa
Help Resources links to various help resources
Newsgroups addresses of newsgroups
Mailing Lists addresses of mailing lists

Centers

Digital Media Lab
Located in Clemons Library's Robertson Media Center, the Digital Media Lab offers tools and support for faculty, staff and graduate students who participate in instruction.
 
Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Humanities
IATH, located in Alderman Library provides researchers in the arts and humanities with an opportunity to employ sophisticated technical support and advanced computer technology in the service of their scholarship.
 
 
The Electronic Text Center
The Electronic Text Center, located in Alderman Library, combines an on-line archive of thousands of SGML-encoded electronic texts (some of which are publicly available) with a library-based Center housing hardware and software suitable for the creation and analysis of text. The E-Text center offers ongoing training sessions and support of individual teaching and research projects.
 
UVa Medical Education
The Office of Medical Education provides resources in the area of curriculum support and advanced multimedia applications for Health Sciences.
 
The University Press of Virginia
A member of the Association of American University Presses, it currently publishes fifty to sixty new titles annually and maintains a backlist of 1,000 titles in print. The UPVa also creates online electronic publications.
 

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Courses

InTech Classes
The UVa Faculty Instructional Toolkit Classes
Web Overview
Multimedia in the Classroom
Image Acquisition (basic scanning of images)
Image Editing (basic editing of a digitized image)
Digital Video
Advanced Web Topics
Advanced Photoshop
 
ITC Training
Day and Evening Workshops
 
Conferences
Other Training Services
 
Library Short Courses
Web I: Introduction to the World Wide Web
Web II: Searching the World Wide Web
HTML I: Introduction
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Basics
Introduction to Scanning
HTML IIA: Formatting
HTML IIB: Images
HTML IIC: Image Maps and Frames
Geographic Information Resources
Social Sciences Data Resources
Introduction to Lexis-Nexis
Introduction to the CARL UnCover Database
New VIRGO Basics
Introduction to the MESL Image Database
 
 
 

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Help Resources

The UVa Faculty Instructional Toolkit
A collection of World Wide Web-based tools to help faculty create class home pages, administer courses, and utilize University resources to manage courses.
 
Help and Internet Tools
How to Put Your Information On the UVa Web
Information for Beginners
Departmental Home Pages
Individual Home Pages
About the Internet
Help Browsing
Help with HTML
Copyright and Fair Use
Search Tools
Virginia WWW Servers List
 
The University of Virginia Guide to On-Line Academic Publishing on the World Wide Web
A Web style guide from the Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Humanities
 
Spinning Maintainable Web Structures
Information about creating Web documents and maintaining them on UVa Web servers from the Curry School of Education and ITC
 
University of Virginia Library Educational Resources: Online Help Documents
Archie, a way to search for files at FTP sites
CD-roms
Electronic Texts at UVA
Email
FirstSearch
FTP, File Transfer Protocol--a way to retrieve files across the Internet
Gopher, a hierarchical menu system
HTML and Web Document Creation, the language and tools used to write documents for the World Wide Web
The Internet
Lexis-Nexis, a means to access full-text newspapers, journals, and law
Listservs, electronic mailing lists/discussion groups
Scanning
Science Citation Index
Style Guides for Citing Electronic Resources
Technical Information
  • General
  • Macintosh
    • Local UVA Support
    • External Support
  • Windows
Telnet, a way to log onto a remote computer
Unix
Veronica, a way to search Gopher space
Virgo
The World Wide Web
 
The Electronic Text Center Online Help Sheets
HTML
SGML
Text Scanning
Image Scanning
CD-ROM helpsheets
Software helpsheets
 
Help Using the Web
If you are new to the Web
Setting up a new Unix account
Installing Netscape at home
How to write HTML documents
Creating personal home pages on the server
Helper Applications
Creating departmental pages on the server
Classroom Technology Initiative at UVa
 
Knowledge Base from the Teaching and Technology Initiative.
Introduction to Web Authoring
Converting Existing Document Files to HTML Format
Web Authoring Software
Using "Slide Show" Programs in the Classroom
 
Web Tools from the Curry School of Education
Clickable Graphics (Icons and Imagemaps)
Mail-To Forms
Server-side Includes
Spinning Maintainable Web Structures
Alternative Resources
 
Meta-Index of WWW Resources
A comprehensive resource of reference sources, new technology information, tutorials,tools, scripts and other Web topics. By Joe Burch from ITC.
 
WWW Tools and Documentation
Index of HTML documents, authoring tools, resources, client and server scripting tools. By Steve Strickland.
 
Systems Engineering Help Page
Computing guides, manuals, references, FAQ's
 
InTech Class Notes Index
HTML Advanced Topics (Spring 96)
Web Overview
Multimedia in the Classroom
Image Acquisition
 
ITC's WWW Support Page
Index of documents and tools relating to Web publishing.

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Newsgroups

If you get an error when trying to access newsgroups, make sure your news server is set to news.virginia.edu in your Web browser configuration.

uva.www
General Web issues
 
uva.www.announce
Web-related announcements
 
uva.multimedia
General multimedia issues
 
uva.www.itc-toolkit
On ITC Faculty Instructional Toolkit classes, announcements, new enhancements and features and for discussing using the Toolkit in classes
uva.tltr
The Teaching, Learning, Technology Roundtable discussions and announcements of meetings, speakers and events.
 
uva.comp.java
On Java at UVa
 
uva.comp.sgml
On SGML at UVa
 
uva.org.mess
Local Macintosh Users group
 
uva.mailing-list.net- happenings
Newsgroup from an international mailing on new Internet sites
 
uva.mailing-list.acrobat
Newsgroup from an international mailing list on Adobe Acrobat
 
uva.mailing-list.etextctr
Newsgroup from a mailing list on the Electronic Text Center
 
uva.educ.itforum-list
Newsgroup from an international mailing list on instructional technology
 
uva.mailing-list.wwwedu
Newsgroup from an international mailing list on the World Wide Web
and education
 

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Mailing Lists

For more information about mailing lists, send a message to majordomo@virginia.edu with the body of the message "info (name of list)".

 
uva-trc
From the Teaching Resource Center
 
uva-techfellows
From the Teaching Technology Initiative (TTI)
 
mm-grp
General UVa multimedia list
 
itc-classes
ITC course information
 
uvamesl-l
Information about the UVa MESL project
 

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Please help maintain this list for the University community. We will attempt to keep this list as current as possible. Please mail the Instructional Technology Group any additions or changes or suggest new categories. Thank you.