EIU Instructional Technology Center

ITC Launchpad

Welcome to the EIU Instructional Technology Center

The ITC Launchpad provides a quick and easy way to navigate the many online teaching and learning with technology resources available 24/7/365. 

From low-tech to high-tech the ITC is here to help with your educational technology needs. The ITC is a division of the College of Education where we believe in a "Pedagogy First" approach to implementing technologies and always focus on the learning first and foremost with a Minds-On Always, Hands-on Often teaching philosophy.

Instructional Technology Center

The ITC is one of the premiere teacher education resource centers in the State of Illinois. We have a growing online presence and you will find many resources of value related to teaching and learning via our blogs, podcasts, YouTube Channel, and OneNote Notebooks.

While at the ITC students will find spacious work areas for group projects and one of the best selection of bulletin board supplies in the area with over 400 Ellison dies for your use while visiting the ITC. In addition the ITC provides checkout equipment to CEPS faculty for classroom use including, projectors, digital cameras, digital video cameras, student response systems, video conferencing equipment, and five mobile wireless laptop computer carts.

The Instructional Technology Center (ITC) provides frontline technology support for faculty, staff, students, and alumni of the College of Education as well as the general EIU community. Dr. Grissom retired from EIU in the summer of 2020 but he left a wealth of resources accessible online from the many years of work at EIU. Many of those resources can be accessed below.

Our TechTalk4Teachers podcast has a world-wide audience with listeners in over 120 different countries and our EIU ITC YouTube Channel provides many examples of “flipped learning style” videos for convenient and timely on-demand professional development opportunities for teachers and students. The ITC Sway provides a mobile-friendly view of the ITC website that looks great on mobile phones. The ITC Chronicles blog is a place where many new and innovative learning practices are shared. ITC OneNote digital notebooks provide a dynamic view into the many demos, projects, and workshops we routinely provide at the ITC.

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