Category: Professional Development
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Canadian Economics Conference
Attended the Canadian Economics Associaton annual Conference at University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, CND, on May 28-31, 2009. Info here.
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Worth Economics Symposium
Attended the Worth Publishers Economics Symposium in Cincinnati, OH, April 25. Paul Krugman was keynote speaker along with Tyler Cowen, Alex Taborrak and others. Program here. Summary of the conference here, including this picture of yours truly chatting with Paul Krugman:
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Instructional Technology Conversations,
Participated in “Instructional Technology Conversations”, sponsored by LCC – CTE, March 27, 2009. The topic was social networks, such as Facebook.
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“Across the Metaverse: A Web 2.0 Primer”
Attended a Professional Development session presented by Dan Holt (LCC Writing) entitled: “Across the Metaverse: A Web 2.0 Primer”. It was hosted by LCC-CTE on Wednesday, March 25,2009. Dan discussed various kinds of Web 2.0 websites and how they may be used in teaching, such as Twitter, Facebook, Second Life, and numerous others.
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League CIT, 2008
I attended the League for Innovation in Community Colleges CIT Conference in Salt Lake City, Oct 19-23. I presented a forum session on “Thinking About an E-Portfolio?”. I also hosted three round-table discussions on: “Future Learning Mgt Systems: Web 2.0 Mashups?” “Prophware: A Social Network for Professors” “Web 2.0 Testbanks for Objective Tests”. Copies of…
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Online Retention of Students
I attended a 3 day conference in San Diego, Dec. 8-10 presented by Academic Impressions. The focus of the conference was Retention of Online Students. Their description was: Retaining Students in Online Education December 8-10 :: San Diego, CA The promise and potential to transform lives through online learning is enormous. All too often, though,…