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Choosing the Name for Your Avatar in Second Life

Useful Links

You’ve heard the buzz about Second Life MMORPG and its instructional potential, but don’t know how to dress and name your character? Try this random name generator. It will generate random names that sound Greek, Elvish, monster-like or heroic, depending on y...

3D
CMS
Second Life
avatar
CCLE
games
instructional tech
LMS
MMORPG
technology in teaching
virtual

How do I obtain software at UCLA?

UCLA Tech Resources

Software is available from many sources at UCLA. Where you get it from depends on several factors some of which are: Your status – Faculty, Staff, Student, Other Your department or schoolWhat kind of software you need – Commonly used or specialized Cost – Free...

software
technology in teaching

Where can I go to see if a classroom has audio visual systems?

UCLA Tech Resources

You can search for large lecture halls as well as smaller discussion size classrooms’ AVS availability by checking out this site here:http://www.oid.ucla.edu/units/avs/buildings/Please read the Office of Instructional Development’s AVS policies for more inform...

classroom
technology in teaching

What services are available for enhancing instruction?

UCLA Resources

There are a lot of services on campus to help you enhance your classes, such as video, interactive media, research collections, etc. These resources are available on campus and are constantly changing as new technology are introduced. Each group has specia...

services
new faculty
technology in teaching

What are some labs where I can use special multimedia for my class?

UCLA Tech Resources

Technology is constantly changing, and with that change comes new and innovative ways for instructors to present their course materials. On campus, there are many labs with a wide variety of multimedia tools available for instructors to tie into their regular...

labs
classroom
multimedia
technology in teaching

What is the best way to send/post documents for my students?

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The best thing to do with your documents prior to posting is converting it to a PDF. With Word documents, a lot of the times, when you save your document, other data is saved along with what you have on your document. This might occur when you have multiple w...

Classweb
PDF
technology in teaching
Word

Can I send an email attachment to my class roster?

Email

Social Sciences ClassWeb and my.ucla allows instructors to send mail to their class roster via their services. However, ClassWeb does not allow for email attachments, while my.ucla does. ClassWeb does not recommend sending email attachments to class rosters ...

email
attachment
class
roster
technology in teaching

Why is it important to use short names in Plone?

Programming and Web Development Plone

Short names become apart of the URL for Plone sites. Instead of an auto generated URL, you can create an easy to remember URL. For example, say you created a “General Information” page, your URL can show up like this: generalinfo or general-info, as opposed ...

Plone
names
short
technology in teaching

How do you enable short names in Plone?

Programming and Web Development Plone

By default Plone 2.1.x generates short names for you based on the title of your document, folder, etc in the same manner https://kb.ucla.edu does.For example, if you create a document with a title called “Plone is Great” the short name becomes “plone-is-great”...

Plone
names
short
technology in teaching

Where can I get the equipment I need for my class?

UCLA Tech Resources

Audio Video Services – Listing of audiovisual equipment installed in classrooms or available for rental CLICC Laptop lending and instructional laptops Video Conferencing and Distance Learning Instructional Media Production – Instructional Media Production...

borrow
equipment
loan
rent
technology in teaching

Where can I find information about software licensing?

UCLA Tech Resources

Software Central is responsible for negotiating, implementing and administering campus-wide software license agreements for UCLA.http://www.softwarecentral.ucla.edu

licenses
software
technology in teaching

Where can I find information about statistical computing?

UCLA Tech Resources

The statistical computing group is a team of four UCLA staff members who help UCLA researchers with problems with statistical computing using packages such as SAS, Stata, or SPSS. We offer a variety of services, including web pages on statistical computing, st...

Statistics
computing
technology in teaching

Innovative Teaching Ideas

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There are probably many other collections of innovating teaching ideas and examples. Please add them to this page as you come across them. MERLOT ELIXR is a collection of digital case stories about innovation in teaching. http://elixr.merlot.org/case-stories...

teaching
teaching tools
technology in teaching

Where can I find scanners on campus?

UCLA Tech Resources

Scanners and scan services available for faculty and teaching assistants (restriction may apply to department/divisions): Center for Digital Humanities – CDH and each Humanities Administrative Group also have multifunction copiers, which convert single or mult...

technology in teaching
scanning

Where can I find videos for class use?

UCLA Tech Resources

The Instructional Media Collections & Services (IMCS) is UCLA’s central resource for the collection and maintenance of instructional media. The IMCS primarily serves faculty and departmental personnel who use media in the classroom. The IMCS has a collection o...

media
video
class
technology in teaching