Ontario College of Art & Design 2008 Update

LMS: My Courses Further development of in-house LMS - Permanent hire of one full time developer - Development of Gradebook application with integration to backend SIS ready for rollout Sept 2008 - Redesigned GUI - Expansion of second largest proprietary image database in Canada. Adding video. - Some addition of AJAX/Web 2.0 functionality

iTunes U - Purchase of Leopard Podcast Server - Podcasted lectures for 7 classes over course of year, plus Professional Gallery

Web Conferencing / Collaboration - Implemented Octopz collaboration software for students in laptop program, and all faculty - Will be implementing Acrobat Connect Pro for Admin and Academic Admin, Oct 2008

Video Conferencing - Installed, configured H.323 high-def video conferencing / Access Grid facility - Delivered two distance courses up to Dawson City, Yukon via video conferencing. Local prof, remote class. Pocasted lectures simultaneously. - Participated in VROC, ABEL other video conferencing initiatives

Web 2.0 - Pilot project for Blogging with implementation of Wordpress MU for curriculum - Pilot project for using MediaWiki for curriculum - Purchase of institutional Second Life island for student curriculum and art projects - Check out my Web 2.0 Presentation at [1]