Milestones for Educational Technologies

1995-2009

The following items represent significant departmental and personal achievements that furthered the mission of the unit, division and the university. This list illustrates the essence of what Educational Technologies provides the campus and the community.

Date Milestone
1995 First campus graphical web site designed and completed, first campus web committee formed - committee chairs from Educational Technologies
1995 First campus interactive TV Distance Educational (DE) room completed, first VTEL compressed video transmission occurs, Wing Building
1995 UW-L becomes charter member of the WONDER DE Network
1996 Broadcasted first UW-System Board of Regents meeting via videoconferencing
1996 UW-L broadcasts first campus 45MB distance education transmission
1996 Digital design and restoration for UW-L Special Collections begins
1997 Second campus ITV DE room completed, Morris Hall
1998-1999 Chair, UW-System Educational Media Technology Council (EMTC)
1999 Technology integration and design for the Health Science Center
1999 WONDER DE Network Technical Team Chair
1999 UW-System Board of Regents Towers of Excellence Program
1999 Technology stations and podiums are designed for the campus
1999-2000 Educational Technologies provides contractual technology services to the Health Science Center
2000 Designed learning spaces for new Wing Technology Center
2000 First campus radio system to improve campus technical support completed
2001 Third and fourth campus DE rooms completed- Wing Technology Center
2000-2008 Distinguished Lecture Series for Physics begins (video production and photography)
2003 Procured large format digital printer for campus
2003-2008 Begin University Undergraduate Research support
2004 UW-System Campus Web Council of Wisconsin (CWCW)
2005 Procured MGC-25 IP video bridge for videoconferencing at UW-L
2005 Frye Institute Leadership Fellow Chosen
2005-2007 HSC Federal Grant Clinics projects in Western Wisconsin Telehealth Grant
2005-2009 Web Oversight Committee (WOC) created
2005 Began 24-7 programming of UW-L television on Charter Cable 6
2005-2009 UW-L Passport to Technology Conference is held
2006 International Rivers Conference- Video, web site, conference staging http://www.rivers2006.org/
2006 iTunes U is integrated and deployed on campus
2006 Student technology fee allows purchases of podcasting and video production
2006 UW-System LTDC Community of Practice $80,000 http://www.uwsp.edu/education/lwilson/icop/icop_home.htm
2007 Web casting university graduation
2007 Federal grant used to replace video equipment in the HSC
2007 First Video Over IP videoconference for UW-System LTDC is webcasted from UW-River Falls to UW-La Crosse
2007 New campus web site developed and deployed. Uniform Web Templates developed and deployed
2007 Chair, UW-System Learning Technology Development Council (LTDC)
2007 Project Technology debuted at UW-L and at EDUCAUSE international conference
2007 First campus large scale wiki project introduced and deployed
2008 Web casting four video feeds for UW-L stadium complex www.uwlax.edu/stadiumcam
2008 Mediasite web streaming system and server are procured and deployed
2008 Mediasite resource catalog is publically available- www.uwlax.edu/edtech/mediasite
2008 Flash media streaming server procured and deployed
2008 New campus web site migration www.uwlax.edu
2008 UNLEASH Return on Investment International Award for Webcasting
2008 UW-System Board of Regents “The Stories behind the Numbers” program debuted