I’ve prided myself for a long time on being a liaison for technology and people who aren’t technologists or those who at the very least tolerate it. However I still would like to contribute to the web development community regardless of whether they are developing e-Learning or educational software interfaces or not. With that said, I would like to emphasize that my first degree was in software engineering, so I am an engineer at heart. Therefore I will proceed to get a little tech-y…

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We’ve tabulate the results from the ticket out from Fall 2007 Convocation. The following list groups the various "Retaining Students" ideas into trends that Naomi Story identified. Please read through and consider responding to this post. Things to consider:

• Which of these suggestions will you do? when? where? how?
• Which of these suggestions have you done in the past? How did they play out?
• What other categories do you see emerging in this list of suggestions?

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TITLE: Scholarly Editions Grants

FUNDING SOURCE: National Endowment for the Humanities

SCOPE: NEH invites applications to support preparation of significant literary, philosophical and historical texts and documents that currently are inaccessible or are available in inadequate editions.
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We’ve tabulate the results from the ticket out from Fall 2007 Convocation. The following list groups the various "Challenging Students" ideas into trends that Naomi Story & Shelley Rodrigo identified. Please read through and consider responding to this post. Things to consider:

• Which of these suggestions will you do? when? where? how?
• Which of these suggestions have you done in the past? How did they play out?
• What other categories do you see emerging in this list of suggestions?

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Beloit College’s annual listing of the mindset of incoming freshmen is yet another reminder we can’t work from those crusty yellow lecture notes (not that any of you do of course!). Personally, I always find the class assumptions behind these types of lists fascinating. These students have never had to roll down the car window? Somehow I think many of our students still have access to cars that require rolling down the window. However, I love the recognition of media as historian while discussing that these freshman only know JFK and Malcolm X from the films. Be sure to realign your thinking and check out the list!

TITLE: Community Based Job Training Grants
FUNDING SOURCE: U.S. Department of Labor

SCOPE: The grants are designed to support workforce training for local/regional and global high growth/high-demand industries through the national system of community and technical colleges.
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In the CTL we are trying to promote and support faculty and staff applying for various grants to support teaching and learning at MCC. Note this grant is emphasizing two-year colleges.

TITLE: Advanced Technological Education (ATE)

FUNDING SOURCE: National Science Foundation

SCOPE: With an emphasis on two-year colleges, the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program focuses on the education of technicians for the high-technology fields that drive our nation’s economy. The program involves partnerships between academic institutions and employers to promote improvement in the education of science and engineering technicians at the undergraduate and secondary school levels.
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Good Morning All,

I’m writing a quick post to let all who read know that I will be ‘gone’ temporarily from the CTL as I will be completing the requirements for a Masters degree in the Ed Tech program at ASU on a sabbatical leave award. Everyone here has been very supportive of me doing this and I’m grateful for that. So grateful, in fact, that I couldn’t leave until the very last minute. Today is my last day here and I will be tying up some loose ends for a short while.

I will occasionally post a thing or two to the blogcast whilst I’m on leave as well as documenting my more routine educational experiences and findings at my other website, EduTechnorama. (I know it sounds goofy but I had to come up with something to call it)

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We’ve tabulate the results from the ticket out from Fall 2007 Convocation on Monday. The following list groups the various "Reaching Out to Students" ideas into trends that Naomi Story & Shelley Rodrigo identified. Please read through and consider responding to this post. Things to consider:

• Which of these suggestions will you do? when? where? how?
• Which of these suggestions have you done in the past? How did they play out?
• What other categories do you see emerging in this list of suggestions?

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I liked Jim Mancuso’s metaphor that MCC is not just turning a new page this academic year, but an entire new chapter. I think the CTL is also starting a new chapter with the recent return and/or turnover of new staff in the CTL. As a part of our new chapter, the CTL is kicking off a new program called “Focus On“. The purpose of this program is to give the CTL a pedagogical topic to focus on for each semester. Our kick off topic is Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs). We hope this semester that everyone will participate by talking about, and possibly trying, CATs sometime during the Fall semester. Hopefully you all filled out your “ticket out” at the end of the Convocation. Those of us in the CTL will look at those results and report back to you all later this week.