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 |