Reminder: COLTT Conference Scholarships

This week, Terry Reeves, Dean of Academic Instruction, wishes to remind you . . .

Hello everyone,

CCCOnline will be able to scholarship some CCCS staff and faculty for COLTT this year; please see the announcement below.  I hope some of you can attend.

Thanks!

Terry
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CCCS

Subject: Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology Conference (COLTT):

Call for Proposals, Registration, and Scholarships

The 15th Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology Conference (COLTT) needs your expertise and enthusiasm for this year’s conference, to be held on the University of Colorado Boulder campus, Wednesday, August 1^st and Thursday, August 2^nd, 2012.

Registration is now open. To register or request a scholarship please review our COLTT 2012 website and links at: https://www.cusys.edu/coltt/2012/registration.html .

CCCOnline has received funding to once again offer scholarship funds to qualified applicants for COLTT registrations. The funds are limited, and will be allocated on a first-come first-serve basis, with a waitlist as necessary.

This 15^th COLTT conference will be an amazing opportunity to network with faculty and gain access to new ideas and technologies to incorporate into your classroom. We hope you’ll join us for what will surely be a vibrant and inspiring event!

Questions about COLTT 2012 can be directed to Deborah Keyek-Franssen, Conference Director, deblkf@colorado.edu or Jill Lester, Conference Coordinator, coltt@cu.edu .

What We Learned at COLTT

Some of the CCCOnline academic staff attended COLTT (the Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology Conference) at CU-Boulder last week. Here’s what they reported:

The Best Ideas under the Sun
“One session of COLTT discussed the tool Voice Thread as used for enhancing student participation with each other in foreign language courses. Saturday after COLTT, I had the privilege of sitting in Sloan’s Lake Park with some of our vibrant Spanish instructors in a gathering arranged by Jeri Heinicke. Some of the instructors expressed interest in incorporating this tool in a couple of assignments for fall. We’ll let you know how it goes!”
-Karla Schorzman, Associate Dean of Arts and Humanities

Cool Tools!
“My experience of COLTT introduced me to or reminded me of some cool web sites and tools:

*Arounder.com, which provides panoramic views of various places around the world: http://www.arounder.com/
*VIMEO, which is like YouTube without the ads: http://vimeo.com/
*XTRANORMAL: http://www.xtranormal.com/
*Khan Academy: http://www.khanacademy.org/
*Zoomerang: http://www.zoomerang.com/
*Symphony of Science: http://www.symphonyofscience.com/”
-Karen Kaemmerling, Associate Dean of Social Sciences

“I learned about two interesting tools that have come on the scene recently.

The first is http://storify.com/; this is a tool to aid story authors using quick and easy drop-in content from other sites. The demo given is that you would intersperse text, online videos or other multimedia in way to tell a story. Their demos are interesting.

The second is http://instagrok.com/ which is a meta search engine for academic materials. It’s a Boulder, CO startup that looks very promising for students and instructors seeking high quality materials to embed into various works. It sorts from K-12 to college level postings by analyzing work usage, style, etc. and gives a word cloud so you can see at a glance the content without having to do a bunch of ‘go look and return to the index.’ ”
-Joseph Foss, AT Professional