eLearning Community Online Learning Sessions - Intended audience: Community and Technical College Faculty

This Wednesday the 19^th at 3 PM there will be the first in a series of online sessions in Elluminate, planned for faculty who use or are interested in online learning technologies and associated teaching and learning best practices. The topics will cover use of ANGEL, Elluminate, Tegrity and other core technologies supported by the Washington State Board of Community and Technical Colleges and/or in common use in our system.  These sessions are open to anyone wanting to attend and will be facilitated by eLearning professionals from system colleges and state board, eLearning staff.  The list of topics is determined by the group of presenters and by suggestions to be made by attendees.

Also, beginning this week and continuing for the foreseeable future, there will also now be open office hours in Elluminate, every Wednesday at ten AM.  These sessions, which will be without topic or agenda, are for any staff member or instructor who wants to come ask questions or get help using ANGEL, Elluminate, or Tegrity.  The sessions will be attended by the same eLearning personnel who will make the weekly pres

Participants may log into Elluminate for all sessions and open office hours via this link:

Participant Link:

http://goo.gl/JpmfU

All sessions will be recorded and available via this link:

http://goo.gl/wi2Ab

To view the session schedule, follow this link:

http://goo.gl/cr2R5

If you have suggestions for how to improve the format of these sessions or a suggestion for a future topic, please fill in this form:

http://goo.gl/i6OGF

The session this week will cover getting started with Tegrity lecture capture:

January 19th - 3 PM -- Presentation Topic; Tegrity – Introduction to Classroom Capture, Configuring for Capture, and Getting Started – Scott Dennis, Jerry Lewis and Eric Waterkotte
·         Necessary Equipment and Software
·         Using Multiple Cameras, Microphones
·         Configuring Settings
·         Publishing, Un-publishing Recordings

Please feel free to send any questions to Scott Dennis at sdennis@sbctc.edu .  Also, if you work in eLearning and are interested in helping to create the schedule, make presentations, or otherwise help out, please let Scott know.  His contact information is: 

Scott Dennis

eLearning Professional Development Manager

WA State Board Community & Technical Colleges

sdennis@sbctc.edu

Voice: 360.747.7211

College Readiness Retreat

COLLEGE READINESS RETREAT

Co-sponsored by

the Washington Center for Improving Undergraduate Education and the

Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges

February 10-11, 2011
Dumas Bay Centre, Federal Way

The 2011 Winter College Readiness Retreat is just around the corner.

Please register as soon as possible.

Registration form

The college readiness retreats are designed for faculty

who teach pre-college (Adult Basic Education or Developmental Education) courses.

We encourage participants to attend with a  teaching partner or team.

I-BEST teams are encouraged to attend.

Registration fee is just $55 – the remainder of the cost is subsidized by the SBCTC.

Join us to:

·         Share successful strategies

·         Share possible solutions to struggles

·         Learn more about coaching students to think analytically and take charge of their own learning

·         Learn from successful team-teachers – what works when collaboratively designing and delivering curriculum

·         Use facilitators and peers as your resources, as you and your campus team members work together on integrative assignments, assessments, or other curricular work.

A detailed agenda will be posted soon, on the Assessment, Teaching and Learning pages.