2011 Conference Presentation Links Available!

Thanks to all our super CCCOnline instructors, staff, and sponsors who made this year’s Annual Conference a success. Here is a link to our Conference Archive page, where you’ll find copies of the presentations.

In the CCCOnline Community, please feel free to relate your conference experiences, comments, and anything you learned and would like to share.

Student Groups in the Online Classroom

You’re invited to our last webinar of the year! Join us for “Creating & Facilitating Groups in D2L” at 1:00 p.m. this Friday, Dec. 3.

In this webinar, you’ll learn about creating and managing groups with the D2L Groups tool and about resources to guide the design and facilitation of virtual team activities.

In the meantime, please feel free to share your experiences with student groups in the appropriate Cultivating Excellence discussion within the CCCOnline Community.

Learning Key Chain Webinar

Do your students sometimes appear not to connect to your subject, its materials, or even to you? Learning preferences play a great role in how much and how well we learn or want to learn anything. When we decide to learn something, we pick the key that works for us. A flexible "lock" allows for many keys to access content.

Join us for an interactive webinar on Friday November 5th at 1pm with Leecy Wise. Participants will explore how they learn and teach best. The webinar will provide instructors with a broad perspective on how students might prefer to learn. The webinar will introduce instructors to new ways of presenting content and engaging students with a variety of learning needs and abilities.

No registration required, just join us at https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2008363&password=M.7535BE50A6EE6D4A8B14AFA1F589FE

How do you customize content in your courses to meet different learner preferences? Share with us techniques you use or want to try in the Cultivating Excellence Blog in the CCCOnline Community before or after the webinar.

Visit the Recorded Webinars

Each month we conduct at least one webinar on pedagogical or technical skills. On Friday Oct 1, Turnitin joined us to do their presentation from the conference. As was true at the conference, the presentation was very well received by the attendees.

BUT, what can you do if Friday at 1pm doesn’t work for you? ANSWER: We record our webinars and post them on the wiki Webinar Archive page within a few days of the event. Over the last couple of years we have built quite a list of resources on a variety of topics that you may enjoy.

My favorite part of listening to a webinar is that I can pause the presentation, speed it up, rewind it, or stop it and return to it later. I can also run the webinar and try what a presenter is demonstrating immediately in my sandbox course.

If you haven’t checked this resource out lately, please do so. If you have ideas for additional webinar topics that you would like this year, please post your comments in the CCCOnline Community’s Cultivating Excellence discussion; look for thread “Visit the Recorded Webinars”. Also, please share which webinars you’ve found most helpful and informative whether you attended in person or listened to the recording. We love getting feedback and want to schedule these events to best meet your needs.

Also, check out the Upcoming webinar page for events we have scheduled this fall.