The CTL sends out a lot of communications! Naomi sends out general readings about the profession and ways to grow professionally. I (Shelley) have been sending out tons of material about events at the CTL and occasionally information about other professional development opportunities (reemphasizing some MCLI stuff, local conferences, grants, etc.). JoRita sends out the adjunct newsletter. Melanie sends out information about the status of WebCT. We have a blog, which we haven’t been posting to as much lately. We also have the CTL website and CTLpedia, which is a part of the website. Bonnie, the director of Distance Learning and not necessarily a part of the CTL, has also started sending out distance learning related professional development suggestions, readings, etc. (more…)

Fantastic use of blogs for education…tracking your movement through the maze of an academic conference session. “Walk” with Shelley Rodrigo, MCC faculty of English, this week as she attends and documents her experience at the CCCC conference.

I’ve worked with Martin for almost 8 years now (gee I’m not that old), and when we shared office space and were working on some project together occassionally he’d slip into frustration with a growl that went something like “Arggh!!” — Just like a pirate. So anyway for lack of other material to post, and in honor of his style of getting things done under frustration at times, I ran his narrative blog post this week through the pirate talk translator: http://www.syddware.com/cgi-bin/pirate.pl

Read on to see how it sounds on paper…I can’t help but laugh

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In the CTL we have opportunities of trying out new services for the purpose of experimentation and growth for new methods of instruction. While we have had a blog before, currently, this blog is the first official blog hosted on the same website as our main page. Thanks to Martin Lehner, and James Bowles, our website is able to support more dynamic content than in the past. Anything PHP based is now a thing of reality, whereas before it was harder to support on our server. However, we aren’t quite there yet in terms of supporting a broad campus-wide instructional blogging community. In the interim, if anyone wants to do blogging for themselves or collaboratively with your students or co-workers, there are many free alternatives. (more…)