Conference News

This week, Aarthi Ramesh, CCCOnline Coordinator of Training & Professional Development, reports:

It's been a very productive experience so far and I'm learning a lot. Karen Kaemmerling, our previous CCC training Coordinator, has been a fantastic guiding beacon through this transition process. I'm excited we'll also be working together on the Annual CCCOnline Faculty conference committee along with Elizabeth Dzabic, Beth Kitts, Ben Vega, Carol Verver and Lisa Marie Johnson. Yes, the plan is on and we are scheduled for September 30th, 2011:)).

We'll be sending out an announcement soon, but meantime friends, please feel free to chip in with ideas and suggestions you think Training and Professional Development needs to consider in the weeks to come as well as sessions you want to see at the Annual conference.

Next week, due to staff schedules, we will not be posting to the Cultivating Excellence blog.  We’ll be back the week of 5/30.  Have a happy Memorial Day.

Welcoming Our New Coordinator of Training and Professional Development

It is our pleasure to introduce Aarthi Ramesh, the new CCCOnline Coordinator of Training and Professional Development.  Welcome, Aarthi!  Please read on to make her acquaintance:        

Aarthi’s contributions to CCCOnline have included being the # 1 requested instructor each term, a Vista Volunteer, a D2L mentor, Gold Medal Faculty award winner numerous times, a facilitator/presenter at several CCCOnline conferences and higher education meetings, and Associate Chair of Health Sciences. She's married to a computer engineer and has 2 girls. His first name is her last name - a cultural thing, she says. She lives in Denver with her family for most of the year but loves traveling a lot and has successfully instructed from various parts of the world on numerous occasions. The world indeed has shrunk on the virtual medium!

Virtual collaboration, she believes, is an evolving process that is molded through our successes and setbacks and team work is one of the critical components to making this machinery function effectively. Having been part of CCCOnline for close to a decade though in an adjunct position, Aarthi looks forward to the innovation, challenge and outreach the Training and Professional Development Coordinator position brings her way as she joins Lisa Marie Johnson on the Training and Professional Development team.

Ending the Term / Most Successful Wrap-Ups?

Last semester, we posted some quick reminders about wrapping up the term.  Check them out here and also, please let us know the most successful wrap-up strategy you’ve used in your own classes.

See you in the Cultivating Excellence discussion in the Community!