Dear Faculty-

Today's email is from Gail Krovitz, who teaches for CCCOnline and also works for eCollege. She is looking for participants in a survey, the topic of which I find interesting.

********************From Gail**************

As you might know, I currently work for eCollege (in addition to teaching for CCCOnline!), and my team is doing a research study investigating the time it takes to teach online versus on-ground. The study starts in mid-April and I’m wondering if it would be possible to distribute this request to faculty teaching for CCCOnline. Anyone who is interested can contact us directly (at research@eteaching.ecollege.com) to receive the survey. The criteria for participation are listed below, along with more information. Essentially, an instructor must teach the same course online and on-ground (with comparable term lengths), and must have taught the class at least once.

Please feel free to pass this on to anyone who might be interested (LMS doesn’t matter)!

Gail

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Online vs. on-ground: How much time are you spending?

As online education becomes more prevalent, the academic consultants at eCollege are asked more and more questions about the medium. One question we continue to hear is, How much time does it take to teach online? Developing an online course is one thing, but there are also time considerations with teaching an online course.

A common perception is that it takes more time to teach online than it does to teach on-ground. We’ve seen many articles that anecdotally support this view as well. However, is this really the case?

That’s what we want to know, and we need your help!

In April of 2007, the Academic Services team at eCollege will be conducting a survey/short study to help us lay the foundations for ongoing studies of instructor time commitment, both on-ground and online.

In order to participate, you must meet each of these three criteria:

1) You must teach the same class online and on-ground, with a comparable term length.
2) You must have taught the class at least once in both environments (i.e., this cannot be your first semester teaching this particular class online or on-ground).
3) You must teach at the Higher Education level.

The survey will track faculty time requirements for “average” teaching weeks during the semester. We ask that you track your teaching time for a period of 2 weeks and then fill out our online survey.

Would you be willing to participate?

Sign up today if you’re interested, and we will send you the survey in April.

Please give this information to other faculty you know who might be interested in participating.

Sign up (or ask questions) by sending an email to:

research@eteaching.ecollege.com

best,
Lisa

Rick Hadley - Update

Rick is in critical care at St. Anthony Central. He has extensive head injuries. I can forward any messages you have for his family.

best,
Lisa

Rick Hadley

Hello Everyone-

Rick Hadley was in a serious auto accident late yesterday evening. He is in critical condition at St. Anthony Central with his parents and brother. They have requested no visitation except family at this time, but would appreciate your best wishes. I know many of you have worked closely with Rick and thought you would like to know about the accident.

Sorry,
Lisa

Preferred First Name- Reminder

Hi Everyone-

Carol has only heard from 16 of you regarding your preferred first name. I would have sworn we had more people using nicknames than that. If you would like us to enter a name other than the one on your social security card into Banner please send an email to Carol Verver at Carol.Verver@cccs.edu. This is the name that will appear in Vista for teaching purposes. Your official name is still what will appear on your pay advice and in other official communications.

Thanks-
Lisa

Questions About Phonecasting

Hi All,

Some questions have come in since yesterday's post about using Gabcast. "What's phone casting?" someone asked. It's creating a podcast using a telephone. I mentioned Gabcast. Gabcast is one of the services that allows the creation of sound files using a phone.

You can get a free account at gabcast.com. I paid for an account because it allows me to upload files I've created on my machine or link to external files. It is also possible to create files and not publish them or hide them from being placed on the web. I wanted this option because I don't intend student work to be published to the web unless the person would want it placed there.

My Gabcast podcast is at http://www.gabcast.com/index.php?a=episodes&id=6604.

There are other services, no doubt. This is the one I currently find very usable.

Cheers,

Alice

Phone and Pen (Cursor) ?

How do we articulate what we have learned—by our developed thinking, writing, and speaking skills. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about finding the balance between assessments requiring only writing.

The thinking also relates to a GT (Guaranteed Transfer Course) competency that is out there…“Communicate orally and in writing about the content.”

With the evolution of phone casting, there are now some opportunities to allow student to demonstrate some of the learning via the phone.

So today, I posted the option to a class to submit a case study in written or spoken format using my paid gabcast account ($6/month). Students could also submit sound files by recording them on their desktops using software like Audacity or Garage Band.

BTW, though the students will submit them via phone, they won’t be published on the web. Stay tuned…I’ll report back.

Cheers, Alice

Removing_the_Calendr_Channel_From_Your_CCCOnline_Login_Page

Hi Everyone-

The calendar tool remains problematic for some Vista users. It's not causing problems for everyone, so we don't want to turn it off at a high level. However, some of you may want to turn it off for yourselves both within the course and on your MyCCCOnline page.

Directions for the latter are now on the Vista FAQ in the Faculty wiki at http://www.facultywiki.ccconline.org/~www66/index.php?title=Removing_the_Calendar_Channel_From_Your_CCCOnline_Login_Page
(That is a very long link, so you may have to cut and paste or go directly to the wiki at www.facultywiki.ccconline.org, click on WebCT Vista in the upper section of the page, then on Calendar tool. IT's the last link under Calendar.

The fixes to the calendar tool are currently targetted for an update to Vista in the future, so nothing soon. We are as yet unsure why there are problems for some and not for others, so are also still working on that.

best,
Lisa

Using Creative Commons licensing

Dear Faculty,

I just read an interesting article on "Seven Things You Should Know About Creative Commons Licensing."

http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7023.pdf

As we move into using and creating more open content, this offers a way for you to share your ideas with the education community, while protecting your rights to attribution and how the content is used. The article also mentions several repositories where you can find open resources licensed under Creative Commons.

Rhonda

Rubric Workshop Opportunity: April 6 - 20

Need an easy way to grade your assignments?

Want to make sure your students understand exactly what is required in an assignment?

How about developing a Grading Rubric [rü-brik]? A grading rubric is a set of criteria for evaluating assignments/assessments and for giving feedback.

A rubric is useful for the students so that they understand exactly what is required of an assignment and how it will be graded before turning it in. A rubric will help you, the instructor by providing an easy guide for grading the assignments.

And……..Vista even provides a Grading Forms tool which will let you input your grading rubrics and then use them to grade your assignments through the Assignment tool.

What you will get from this training session:

• A virtual trip to France!

• An understanding of rubrics and their uses

• What comprises a good rubric- several examples of rubrics

• How to write a rubric

• How to use the rubric within your Vista course

What: Creating Grading Rubrics -- CCCOnline training workshop

Where: All Online

When: April 6-20

How: Register at http://cccs-lms.ccconline.org/RegistrationForm/

For more information: Training@ccconline.org

Preferred First Name

To All of You Who Don't Use Your Legal First Name on a Daily Basis:

We finally have the ability to change from your legal first name to your preferred first name. Banner will still use your legal first name, payroll will also still use your legal first name, but your students will see your preferred first name in Vista.

To set this up we need to collect preferred first name from all of you who prefer something differnt from what is listed on your social security card. Please send your preferred first name, your full legal name and your S# to Carol Verver at Carol.Verver@cccs.edu.

For those of you who also have a preferred last name that is not your legal last name -- still working on it, but doesn't look like we will correct this soon. (I fall into both of these categories FWIW).

best,
Lisa

ADA for blind folks

Hi Everyone -

Kathy Miles sent the following email to me regarding tips for meeting the needs of our blind students. I thought you would all be interested in it also as you make changes to your courses:

All:

As reported by several chairs at our January A-Team meeting, we do now have blind students taking our online courses. This has ADA implications for how we list Web links in our course pages, which we need to begin addressing as we migrate courses into Vista and as we revise current courses or develop new courses. To meet ADA guidelines, please do your best when migrating, revising, and developing courses to create Web links with meaningful descriptions. Here's why, and what we need to be aware of:

Software readers for the blind "read" URL links (and other content) to a student when these links are encountered within the content on a Web page. These readers also are designed to place all URL links on that Web page in a list which may be "read" as the student scrolls through it for quick access to those links. This means that the links need to be meaningful to the student in terms of providing information about what the link will go to.

For example, what if a course page intends to tell the student that "to see research resources, go to this link"?
In our courses that link is generally specified in one of three ways within the content on a page: by telling the student to "click here" to see the site, by listing the complete URL for the Web site, or by specifying the name or purpose of the site itself as the link. So the list drawn up from a content page by the software reader might contain three links like these:

1. click here
2. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/index.html#writing
3. how to conduct research and document sources

I think you can see that #1, when "read" in a list without any referencing context, is totally meaningless in terms of what it will go to. Likewise, #2 - while potentially less meaningless - nevertheless requires the student to remember and decipher a lengthy reading of letters, words, and symbols to make sense of the URL ("h-t-t-p-colon-forward slash-forward slash-owl-period-english-period-edu-forward slash-handouts-..." etc.). Only #3 provides a meaningful description of what resource the link goes to, when listed without its surrounding content.

In order to comply with ADA guidelines, therefore, I'm requesting that whenever possible as you migrate courses and/or work with faculty in revising and developing courses, please ensure that Web links on content pages are written in the format exemplified by #3 above (or re-written if they currently exist in a form like #1 or #2 above) - i.e., please use a Web link format which specifies the name and/or purpose of the site. In some cases this will require re-phrasing the context surrounding the Web link for that link sentence to make sense.

Along with content pages, the Resources page in particular often contains a list of URLs as links rather than descriptive links, and time constraints might limit your ability to change all of these in courses migrating for summer - plus we haven't done this in most of the courses we've migrated so far since I don't think any of us thought much about this issue before. So you may need to create a list indicating which of your courses have had all the Web links redone and which have not, for future reference. However, re-doing Web links for summer courses now whenever possible - and certainly in a course's content pages - will be a good start.

Please let me know if you have any questions or think of something I've missed. Thanks!

Kathy

Best,
Lisa

Get Some Style--Teaching Style Workshop April 2 - 13

Teaching With Style

Style……….everyone has their own and we’re not talking What Not To Wear!

Learning Styles are how we take in and process information to effectively learn. You may like to read step-by-step instructions whereas your best friend may like to actually plunge in and do the task a number of times in order to understand it. Or perhaps you remember what you hear but your friend remembers best what she sees in a picture or a chart.. Because of such differences we most likely learn in very different ways.

Additionally, did you realize that for the first time ever, there are four possible generations of learners in our classroom: Veterans, Baby Boomers, Gen X, and Gen Y (The Millennials). All four generations come from a different mind-set based on personal and cultural experiences, and thus they each learn much differently.

How do these learning-style and generational differences translate into our teaching and its effect on our students’ learning? What implications are there for course design? You will engage in a variety of exploratory activities as you work individually and with each other in this fast-paced workshop examining the world of Learning Styles.

What you will get:
· Information on common Learning Styles and methods for measuring them.
· Information on Intergenerational Learning Styles and preferences.
· Information on your own learning style.
· Information on implications for designing course activities in alternative learning style.
· Practice in designing course activities to engage and support different styles.

What: Teaching With Style -- CCCOnline training workshop

Where: All Online

When: April 2-13

How: Register at
http://cccs-lms.ccconline.org/RegistrationForm/

Teaching-Blog Carnival #22 is Up!

Hi All,

About a month ago, I put up an interview with Liz Kleinfeld, who was about to host a teaching-blog carnival. So Liz's went up, and now mine has. I tried to replicate the actual carnival post here, but this blog keeps refusing to post the entry.

http://mocozone.blogspot.com

So step right up and visit the carnival! It was great to tour blogs created by our teaching colleagues. Who knows, you might even like the idea enough to want to host one (heh, heh).

Cheers,

Alice

Maintenance Window for Vista

Hi All-

From David:

I just got a call from our Vista TSM and there is a maintenance window scheduled for tonight at 1 AM MDT until 3 AM MDT. A message about this was supposed to be sent out earlier in the week for proper notification but that didn't happen. They are a little red-faced but they say they need to do this. They are doing some necessary maintenance for the entire data center, where we are hosted.

I hope you are all fast asleep in bed during those hours and were not planning on working in your classes then. Sorry for the late notice.

best,
Lisa

Student Opportunity

Dear Faculty:

I need your assistance finding a female student who fits into the category of Stuck in a Rut - just getting by with her job but needs some help moving forward.

Andrea Beaumont, a producer for Good Morning America has contacted CCCOnline for piece they are doing on March 30 in three different cities. You can see Andrea’s exact request below. She’s getting the most response in Denver on the “Stuck in a Rut” category and that’s where we fit. Here are our tasks:

I need to put Andrea in contact with our student to Andrea ASAP! They want to interview and profile the woman THIS WEEK. They have a career counselor who will meet with her and give her some free advice, etc. The piece will demonstrate how online learning is a great option to help you get OUT of a rut.

On March 30, starting at 5 a.m., GMA wants to host a gathering of about 200 women for this segment that will air live from Denver. Our student profile will air that day and she will be a guest. Andrea asked if there might be a location where WE could host the 200 women and live broadcast. She had that idea on the spot. We are still working on this piece, but it is completely separate from my request for faculty.

Please get your answers to me as soon as you can so we don’t miss this opportunity! My email address is Jennifer.Frank@cccs.edu. Please don't email Lisa or Rhonda, just me.

Jennifer Elizabeth Frank

CCCOnline

Marketing Manager

Financial Aid Advisor

9026 E. Severn Place

Denver, CO 80230

720-858-2738 Work

720-323-8345 Cell

Respondus Workshop March 19 - 23

Got Questions????????????????????

We’ve got Respondus!

The Colorado Community College System has purchased a system-wide license for all system faculty to use Respondus, a tool which can be used to create and manage tests.

With Respondus you can

• Create hard copy exams or upload directly to an online course.
• Retrieve test banks from an online course and move them to another Learning Management System.
• Create up to 15 question types, including calculated and algorithmic formats.
• Add tables, bulleted lists, font changes, and other formatting similar to a word processor.
• Insert mathematical and scientific symbols.
• Embed graphics, audio, and video.
• And much more!

Online Respondus Training

When: March 19-23
How: CCCOnline Training
Registration: http://cccs-lms.ccconline.org/RegistrationForm/
Questions: CCCOTraining@aol.com
Join us online!

Daylight Savings Time

Hi Everyone-

Donna Welschmeyer wrote up this explanation of how the DST patches may have changed due dates in your exam and assignment settings in Vista:

A weekend Blackboard patch to the Vista CMS has created some confusion about due dates/times in Vista courses. Any assignment or exam with an end time of midnight for dates BETWEEN our early change to DST (March 11) and the normal change to DST (April 1) will have converted to 1:00 a.m. on the day following your original due date. For example, an assignment with a due date of midnight on March 15 will now have a due date/time of 1:00 a.m. on March 16. While this is only an hour difference, it may cause confusion for students because the date itself changes.

It appears that due dates/times for assignments that occur AFTER April 1 remained the same as originally set in your class.

If you think this may cause your students to think they have an extra day to turn in assignments or complete exams, please be sure to either change the dates/times back OR post an announcement or send an email explaining the situation.

Sorry for any confusion,
Lisa

Census Day

Congratulations Everyone! Our average drop rate between day 1 of spring session 2 classes and Thursday (day after census day) was 17.5%. That is pretty darn good. Everyone please give yourselves a hand!

Lisa

CCCOnline will offer another real-time Plagiarism session for Students in Elluminate on Wednesday, March 14th at noon. I’ve included the announcement that will appear on the Student News blog.

If this topic is especially important for learners in your cours(s), here’s an opportunity to offer “extra-credit” carrots to them :).

Best, Alice

For the Student Blog:

Avoiding Plagiarism Potholes: The Ethical and Correct Use of Sources

Every college student knows plagiarism is against the rules. It’s also very easy to do – even unintentionally! CCCOnline will show you how to recognize and stay away from plagiarism during a live, interactive, online student workshop:

Wednesday, March 14 th, from noon to 12:45 p.m.
Additional sessions will be offered if there is sufficient demand

Avoiding Plagiarism Potholes is a 45-minute online seminar during which students can discuss three key issues with moderator Alice.Bedard-Voorhees:
What is plagiarism?
What are the consequences of plagiarism?
What are some basic practices to avoid plagiarism in using sources created by others? (Best Practices include resources).

There are up to 50 "seats" available for each session and these are available on a first-come, first-served basis. CCCOnline will offer additional seminars if there is sufficient demand.

There are two steps to joining the meeting.

Download the Elluminate software and pre-configure your system by going to the support page at:

http://elm1.elluminate.com/support.html.

The process may take anywhere from two to 20 minutes, depending on your Internet connection speed. You won’t be able to participate if you have a dial-up connection! In addition to the software, you’ll need speakers to hear the session and a microphone if you want to ask questions or participate in the discussion.

Before the seminar start time, participants can join by using the following link:

http://elm.elluminate.com/FRONTRANGE/join_meeting.html?meetingId=1170366918332.

You DO NOT need a password to join!
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Last Day to drop reminder to students

The following email was sent to all session 2 students and posted on the student blog.

Thanks!
John

This note is a final reminder that you have until tomorrow, Wednesday March 7, 2007, to drop your CCCOnline delivered Spring session 2 course(s) with a refund.

If you do not plan to drop your course(s) or have already dropped your course(s) please disregard this reminder.

Session 2 courses are those courses with a section ID starting C2* (example ENG 121C21)

Please note that due to the large size of CCCOnline courses, we split courses into multiple sections (C22, C23, etc.), therefore, your online section may not be C21, however, if you want to drop the course, you will need to drop the C21 section at your college.

**Contacting your instructor(s) will NOT result in your being dropped or withdrawn from your course(s)**

To DROP your course(s):

- go to http://ccconline.org/start/college_table.htm or your home college web site
- click on the Self-Service Banner link for your home college
- select Login and enter your Student ID and 6-digit student PIN
- click Enter
- select the Student Menu and then the Registration Menu
- select Add or Drop Courses and follow the steps to get to your Current Schedule of
courses
- on your Current Schedule, use the Drop Down box under Action and select Drop
Web
- Click Submit Changes at the bottom of the page
- check your Current Schedule to make sure the course(s) has been dropped

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us or your home college.

For any technical questions or problems with your course, please visit http://ccconline.org/support/

Thank you for your time and we hope you continue to have a great and successful semester!
CCCOnlineStudent Services1.800.801.5040
http://ccconline.org/support/

Financial Aid and Textbooks

Hi Everyone-

Phyllis D. had a question about textbooks and financial aid yesterday and thought the rest of you might like the information also.

We process textbook orders for students using financial aid to purchase their textbooks through the CCCOnline offices. That adds about a day to the time it takes for a student to receive their books and it requires them to use the official bookstore - MBS.

When a student receives financial aid the college sets up an account for them at the college. The college uses the funds in that account to pay for tuition, fees, and books, then eventually disburses any remaining funds to the student. When CCCOnline orders books for the students we pay for the books, then send a statement to the colleges. The colleges reimburse CCCOnline out of the financial aid account they have for the student.

That means we have to be careful not to order books for the students after the financial aid funds have already been disbursed to the student. To ensure that we stop ordering books for students the week before classes begin. If a student registers late for session 1 classes and does not immediately order their textbooks they will have to cover the cost of the textbooks from their personal funds until they receive their financial aid check. Session 2 students are in a slightly better position. They generally receive their financial aid funds the fourth week of the semester and can use that money to purchase books for session 2 classes.

Session 1 students who don't order books promptly may be caught in the donut hole between the closing of the CCCOnline process and the disbursement of their financial aid funds. Unfortunately right now there is not a lot we can do about that. It's another reason we like the digital content project as the cost to the student is included on their tuition bill and access to the content runs with the class.

best,
Lisa

Daylight Savings Time

Hi Everyone-

Sunday morning we all spring forward an hour to daylight savings time. This may be a little problematic in that our computers don't expect to spring forward for another three weeks. Blackboard is updating the Vista server and Vista itself, but it's a complex process, so they do request that users check the time on their various tools after the daylight savings time change this weekend. There are too many variables like when the particular tool function was created, when the time was set in a section tool, when the patch is run on the server. To be safe, faculty should check after the daylight savings time takes effect and make sure the hour time hasn't changed by one hour.

David also sent me information re Java: "JRE 1.5.0 Update 6 has the daylight savings time update. System computers are supposed to have the update. They can check their version on their home computer and get needed updates and information at www.sun.com."

Your learners may or may not update their computers to match the correct time, so please be aware that we may have three weeks of students with assignments that are 1 hour late or at least time stamped one hour late.

You may also need to update your own personal computers. For those of you with windows PC's Microsoft has more information on that available at http://support.microsoft.com/gp/cp_dst. I also glanced at the apple website and it looks like there is a patch there for apple users.

Some very good news -- John tells me only 5% of our spring learners have dropped so far; census day is Wednesday, so that is very good news. Thanks you so much for all of your retention efforts!

best,
Lisa

Faculty Practice: Mid-Term Student Survey from Linda Rowley

OSH Faculty Linda Rowley recently shared this mid-term practice--she sends this anonymous survey to her students and makes mid-course corrections to improve the course experience rather than waiting till the end of the term. Thanks for sharing this practice, Linda!

SURVEY

Instructions: For simplicity, rate each on a 1-3 scale. 1 – needs improvement 2 – satisfactory 3 – excellent OR respond to open-ended questions with your own remarks.

1. About the course
a. The syllabus was clear and easy to understand.
b. The schedule page is organized and lists the course assignments and due dates.
c. The Start Here page adequately explained how to begin the course.
d. The assessment techniques (discussions, quizzes, assignments) used in this course allow me to demonstrate and build my skills and knowledge.
e. Instructions for course navigation (e.g., turning in assignments, taking exams, participating in discussions) were adequately explained.
f. Other comments?

2. A student self-assessment
a. Are you achieving your learning and educational goals in this class?
b. I am engaged in the weekly discussions.
c. My responses to other learners helps build on information, offer new perspectives, and engage in discussions.
d. I am motivated to read other materials related to the chapters or discussions.
e. How would you rate on a self-assessment?
f. Other comments?

3. About the class
a. Other students help me to learn.
b. Other students provide meaningful discussion postings.
c. Other students post frequently.
d. Students in the class are supportive, and provide a good network for me.
e. Other comments?

4. About the instructor
a. The instructor encourages students to actively participate in the class through email, announcements, and discussion.
b. The instructor challenges students to think/analyze/evaluate.
c. The instructor relates the subject matter to other classes, college programs, life and/or employment.
d. The instructor encourages the students to ask questions and/or express opinions.
e. The instructor is engaged and responsive to students.
f. Other comments?

5. What is working well in this course?

6. What could be better?

7. Other comments?

To all CCCOnline Faculty: Do you have some course feedback and response techniques you use with learners in your courses? Please share yours in the Comments :).

Last day to drop reminder sent to students

The following reminder was sent to all session 2 students today.

Thanks!
John

This note is a reminder that you have until Wednesday March 7, 2007, to drop your CCCOnline delivered Spring session 2 course(s) with a refund.

If you do not plan to drop your course(s) or have already dropped your course(s) please disregard this reminder.

Session 2 courses are those courses with a section ID starting C2* (example ENG 121C21)

Please note that due to the large size of CCCOnline courses, we split courses into multiple sections (C22, C23, etc.), therefore, your online section may not be C21, however, if you want to drop the course, you will need to drop the C21 section at your college.

**Contacting your instructor(s) will NOT result in your being dropped or withdrawn from your course(s)**

To DROP your course(s):

- go to http://ccconline.org/start/college_table.htm or your home college web site
- click on the Self-Service Banner link for your home college
- select Login and enter your Student ID and 6-digit student PIN
- click Enter
- select the Student Menu and then the Registration Menu
- select Add or Drop Courses and follow the steps to get to your Current Schedule of
courses
- on your Current Schedule, use the Drop Down box under Action and select Drop
Web
- Click Submit Changes at the bottom of the page
- check your Current Schedule to make sure the course(s) has been dropped

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us or your home college.

Thank you for your time and we hope you continue to have a great and successful semester!
CCCOnlineStudent Services1.800.801.5040
http://ccconline.org/support/

From BB last night around 8:00:

"We are seeing improved performance through our monitoring and will continue to work with our network vendors this evening until we return to 100% operational efficiency. Currently the average response time for all VA2 requests (all clients) is averaging just about 2 seconds. We normally maintain right around 1 second or below. At its worst, we were seeing slightly over 4 second average response times today.

ASP Notify alerts continue to update all clients and will contoinue to do so until this issue is resolved."

This morning the latency issue is supposed to be fixed... so let me know if you think it really is. FWIW it was affecting everyone hosted out of that datacenter, not just us. It wasn't supposed to be related to our surge in use yesterday, but I have to think we exacerbated the issue. The good news is that network issues are easier to correct than Vista issues. :^)

More updates when I have them. David is participating in a support call with BB later this morning. (I'm hanging out at the coffee shop waiting for the Suburban to finish visiting with Bruce at the autoshop - they are buddies you know.)

Oh, other good news - yesterday by the end of the day Deb, John, and Roxanne were under 100 support forms and about the same in calls. It was a very smooth start! (With the exception of Jake Camp's PHI section -- sorry Jake.)

Lisa

WebCT CE Courses Should Be Visible Now

Hi All,

Students in CE courses should be able to see them on their desktops now.
Please let us know if that is NOT the case in any of your courses, please have the student fill out an ticket with the Student Help Desk, including the S number.

Best,

Alice

Turtle 2

Here's an update from one of the hosting managers at BB:

"We are currently experiencing a firewall issue at our VA2 Datacenter. This has the full attention of the entire ASP team and we hope to have this issue resolved on or before 6:30 pm EST. We have been sending out a regular “ASP Notify” with updated information as it is available and will continue to do so. I will also update you with any information that I receive moving forward. "

I notice that Vista is a little slow, but not unusable. Hope it's okay where you are.

Lisa

WebCT CE Courses that Students Can't See

Hi All,

Students in a random number of courses are calling Student Support to say they can't see their course(s) on their CE desktop. AT is working on the resolution of this issue as we speak.

We will update as soon as possible.

Regards,

Alice

Turtle Talk

Hi Everyone-

Vista users are experienceing some slow downs today due to latency issues in the Blackboard hosting facility. I don't have a timeline yet for a fix on that.

Other than that the start to spring 2 is going very well -- John Schmahl just wandered by to let me know that student services has had only around 100 calls and emails today (2700 new students start today).

And last, anyone interested in using the wiki as a teaching tool is welcome to space on the faculty wiki. Just set your own up or talk to Jonathan Fuller (Jonathan.Fuller@cccs.edu).

Lisa

Roster Link

Hi Everyone --

Roster information from David Chatham for each of you teaching is spring 2:

Spring 2 rosters are available, as they were last semester, using your Vista/Banner ID and Password at this secure location: https://www.cccodevelopment.cccs.edu/roster/

If you do not see your Spring 2 course(s), it may be because you haven't been assigned yet in Banner, which is an administrative task that follows the actual Chair decision to assign a particular section to faculty. Let us know, if you don't find your roster.

David Chatham

Dean of Academic Technology

CCCOnline

Classes open tomorrow, technically at noon, but students have access at midnight tonight. If you lose the above link, remember that I posted this to the blog, so you can always look there.

Happy start of term!

Lisa

Spring 2 start time

Hi Everyone-

Spring 2 begins Monday at 12:00 noon...... only it turns out we can't set the hours any longer, so students can actually get into classes in Vista at 12:00 midnight. We still tell them noon, but you may see a few early arrivals. Most of you should have access to your sections already, we hope to take care of all last minute section dupes tomorrow.

Enrollment for spring 2 is up just over 8% today as compared to the same day last year, so not as much as we had hoped, but certainly better than it could be.

best,
Lisa

Welcome to Teaching-Blog Carnival w/ Dr. Liz Kleinfeld

Dr. Liz Kleinfeld is an English faculty at Red Rocks Community College, is a blogger, has used student blogs in her courses, and is also participating in an event known as a teaching-blog carnival.

I had heard Liz present at last year's Telecoop conference about blog carnivals and was really interested in knowing more about how they worked. I learned from her blog she was going to participate in a teaching-blog carnival.

Having observed the a large amount of enthusiasm for teaching practices with CCCOnline faculty, I asked if she would be willing to be interviewed.

So here it is, with Liz explaining what a teaching-blog carnival is, and how she got involved in the event. A link for the carnival she is hosting appears at the end of this post, as does the site that lists former blog carnivals, and an invite for any of you who might be interested in doing the same!

INTERVIEW
Gabcast! Mo Co Zone #7 - Teaching Blog Carnival: An Interview w/ Dr. Liz Kleinfeld

Dr. Liz Kleinfeld, English Faculty, talks about her participation in a teaching-blog carnival.



Link to Teaching-Blog Carnival #20 (hosted by Liz)
http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/teaching_carnival_20.htm

Link to Teaching-Blog Carnival Site:
http://teachingcarnival.blogspot.com/

PS. This weekend, Liz shared that it took her about 8 hours to prepare Blog Carnival #20.

Notes about the audio -- Here is one of my early attempts with audio formats, so I appreciate your patience with the learning curve. I do want to thank Rick Hadley for helping me "clean up" the file quality. I get better volume when I play the file through my mp3 software.
Another option might be to download the file to your desktop to see if you get better volume.

Cheers,

Alice

Featured Faculty: CIS Faculty, Designer, and Trainer Marilyn Godfrey from CIS

Editor's Note: Thanks Marilyn for this update on your bio. Marilyn characterizes the gusto that seems to be a trait shared by many who teach with us. Notice she mentions what she does in her "free time"!

I have been involved in Computer Information Systems in one way or another for the past 20 years. For most of my career, teaching about computers and software has been my specialty. I have also held positions in Systems Administration, Support, and Programming. I am currently employed as the Training Administrator with Douglas County Government in Castle Rock, Colorado. I am in charge of all course development, scheduling, e-learning and delivery of training to a staff of 1100 employees. I have been teaching Computer Information Systems courses for Colorado Community Colleges Online for the past 4 1/2 years and have enjoyed every minute of it!

I have a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Information Systems from University of Phoenix Online and a Master of Science Degree in Education, specializing in Instructional Design for Online Learning from Capella University.

On the personal side, my daughters are 17 and 15. My oldest daughter is a high school senior getting ready to head off to University of Wyoming in the fall of 2007. My youngest daughter plays harp and piano, as well as percussion in the school orchestra and is a member of the Colorado Springs Youth Symphony comprising musicians from all over the souther Colorado area. They perform locally as well as internationally.

In our free time, we enjoy travelling in our RV. We also enjoy boating and 4-wheeling on Colorado's many mountain trails. I also enjoy needlecrafts, sewing, gardening, reading a good novel and simply relaxing outdoors!

Update on Vista Issues

I know several of you have continued to experience issues/bugs in Vista this semester. Here's an update from David about where those issues are in terms of support:

New Discussions Icon – Not working for some faculty; shows all discussions as new. This seems to be a java issue for many but solutions not complete for all faculty. Not a BB issue as far as we can tell. (Sorry everyone). We (David and Rick) have been working with faculty individually to resolve.


Non-course Calendar entries - We are contacting BB about why this is occurring. Work-around is to use the Course Only View to filter out extraneous information.

Student Menu Missing in Student View - (Can test with jenny also). Change Course Menu settings to Horizontal only if Menu is not showing for students.

No Create Printable Icon - No immediate fix available. Work-around: If BB can not repair the five courses affected, the courses may have to be rebuilt before the next term. Work-around: In Firefox, you can put the cursor on the page to be printed and use the right mouse menu to This Frame / Open Frame in new window / then use the File / Print menu to print out. In IE, you can use the File / Print Preview choice and then choose “Only the selected Frame” to make the print.

Annoucement Tool - tool produces random coding in the finished message if the text editor is used. Use the HTML editor and type your message there.

Assignment Drop Box - In the Assignment Dropbox, under the Submitted Tab, the “Assigned To” sort does not list alphabetically. It will be fixed in future application upgrades.

Search Tool - Search Tool returns a message of “no results” when there should be results. This is being assessed by BB Development. No work around.

Email forwarding - does not work. The tool has been turned off at the Institution level. Blackboard is actively investigating this and will try to provide an early solution.

We (David and Lisa, sometimes more) have a monthly conference call (down from weekly) with BB support, hosting, and product development to go over these and other issues. When dealing with bugs in the product BB decides whether the issue belongs in a hot fix or in a future service pack. The decision is based on the severity of the problem for the client and the complexity of the problem. BB has doubled the size of the staff assigned to maintenance of the Vista product as compared to last summer. We continue to emphasize that rapid and frequent communication between us and support is critical to our ongoing relationship.

While it may sometimes feel like no one is looking into these issues, David, in particular, is spending most of his time on them. :^)

Lisa

5 Things - Designers - Aaron

Today I'd like to introduce you to Aaron Leonard, also a member of the CCCOnline Design Team. Aaron is one of the best idea guys in the office (which in our office is saying quite a lot) and if you suddenly need a great graphic to teach some oddball concept he's probably your best option.

Aaron's 5 Things:

1. Fun (or funny) jobs I've had: corn detasseler, sales associate at a toy store, on-air personality (DJ) at a country radio station, photographer for a heavy metal band. I also worked in the kitchen of a “retirement village” for one night, but I burned my hands in the industrial dishwasher and they told me not to come back. But my favorite jobs have been in education.
2. I have degrees in English and Graphic Design. I've been working in the Graphic and Web Design fields for over 12 years. Some cool stuff I've been involved in: designing collateral for the New Jersey Nanotechnology Consortium and learning more than I ever thought I could know about nanotechnology and working on the website for Incyte Genomics, a large company that did genetics research and work on the human genome – another eye opening experience. I received the graphic design degree after being in the industry, so it wasn't as difficult as it could have been. I have also been speaking English all my life but, try as I might, they wouldn't give me an English degree just for that. I'm working on a Master's in Graphic Design right now – online through the Savannah College of Art and Design.
3. I love technology and design. I don't always need the latest and greatest, but I certainly like to know about it. If there's something new out there that can do something cool, I'm all in :) And when there are educational applications for that technology, that makes it so much better. I still do graphic design projects just for fun. If I have a few free minutes, chances are I'll be working on a desktop wallpaper or a new website or a logo. I love design and I do it for fun and for work. How great is it when you can get paid for doing what you love? Bringing design, technology and education together is just a passion for me.
4. Voracious reader of anything by Christopher Moore, Matt Ruff, and Michael Connelly, but my two children make sure that I read plenty of stories involving wild things and Curious George. I also like to read books on typography, instructional design, graphic design, etc.
5. My wife, Kristina, is a college instructor. She teaches for several different schools including CCCOnline. My daughter, Katie, is four and my son, Liam, is 2½. Also, I know more about My Little Pony than any grown man (albeit one with a 4-year-old daughter) should be allowed. (Lisa's side note -- Aaron, My 14 year old daughter wants to have a My Little Pony birthday party this year, so you may have a long road to go with the pastel ponies....)

Lisa

New (and Old) Professional Development Workshops

CCCOnline introduces new Training Sessions!

Want to improve your teaching techniques or learn new technology skills? Join us for our new series of online training sessions beginning in March.
See http://www.facultywiki.ccconline.org/~www66/index.php?title=Portal:Training for descriptions, dates and registration.

Please join us! If you have any questions, please contact Phyllis Dobson, Training Director at CCCOTraining@aol.com.

Software Training

• Respondus: Create, import or edit tests to upload into your Vista course.
• StudyMate: Create Flash-type activities for your course such as flash cards and other games.

Best Teaching Practices

• Mapping Your Course: Have you lost your way in your course? Learn how to identify all the pieces of your course and match them to required competencies.
• Teaching with Style: Each one of your students has a dominant learning style, which might not match your individual teaching style. Identify different learning styles and design different assignments to match those diverse styles.

Online Teaching Techniques with Vista tools

• Writing Performance Objectives: Review the elements of performance objectives so that your students understand the purpose and desired outcome of a unit or assignment. Use the Goals tool in Vista to enter your objectives and match assignments and assessments to these objectives. Objectives are also part of a course map.
• Creating Rubrics: Learn to write grading rubrics for specific assignments or sections of your course. Use the Grading Forms tool in Vista to set up a rubric for assignments and grade those assignments from that grading form. Rubrics are also part of a course map.
• Creating Virtual Teams: Learn more about using the group management tools in Vista to facilitate collaborative learning. This training session combines theory, best practices and technology.

Oldies but Goodies

• Measuring What Matters: Learn about assessment techniques and practices in an online environment.
• Managing Discussions: Discussions are an important part of the online course. Learn and share with your colleagues best practices in facilitating the online classroom.
• Vista Next Steps: This session is for faculty who have experience in teaching with Vista and will provide practice in using the more complex design and teach tools in Vista.

Now don't you think this person (cheeshead) has a lot to teach you about teaching?

Open Content Resource Now Available to Faculty

Dear Faculty,
CCCOnline is proud to be part of a growing online community called the NROC Network. The members of this non-profit organization are working together to support the continuous improvement of online content and instruction. CCCOnline has joined NROC at the institutional level, which means we have full access to the NROC content and community. Part of NROC is truly open content (meaning it's freely available to the world) at www.hippocampus.org. Our institutional membership means we also get "back-end" access to all the materials, which we can place directly in our courses rather than linking out to them. In addition, we have access to instructor guides and other related assets not available at the public website.

Other membership benefits include links to rich media content in a searchable database called FLORA (Faculty Learning Object Repository Access), downloadable media content for iPods, opportunities for collaborative course development, as well as articles and columns. Below are instructions on how to access the "Members Only" NROC resources.

Please use the "key" provided below to join the NROC Network. Once you have joined, be sure to look around the "What's New" page and check out the "Getting Started" information to learn more about using the Network.

TO JOIN, CLICK HERE NOW:
http://www.nrocnetwork.org/nroc_commons?invitation_key=365-110A4B3A323
Next, press the "Join" button to apply for membership. As a member, you will be permitted to login and participate in the community. It may take up to 24 hours after joining until you have complete access at the “Institutional Member” level. NROC has a complete list of CCCOnline faculty e-mail addresses, which they will use to validate your membership.

Please take a few moments to join, and check out the site. They really do have some excellent content that you may find useful for your courses, and that meet our standard course outcomes. And if you find something you want to use, and need help, let us know. The design team can help you decide how best to integrate it. Any questions, let me know at rhonda.epper@cccs.edu.

Rhonda

Supporting Retention and Success: Checking In w/ Students

It is just far enough into the term where students are already providing indicators about how they are doing. Mid-term is very often too late for a student to get tutoring, pay attention to time lines, or pick up tips to improve both learning habits and the resulting grades.

Providing Encouragement and Direction

• Sending email or posting announcements that express your wishes for learner success.
• Letting students know that grades are up and you welcome any communication or questions.
• Providing updated grading posts in the gradebook.
• Providing learners w/ their own grading spreadsheet/scorecard to encourage them to keep track of their own progress.
• Sending email w/ tips to specific learners about what is good, yet what is needed to gain more points in an assignment.
• Calling learners to let them know how important participation is.
• Inviting learners to set a call with you with questions.
• Letting learners know about tutoring services and providing a link and possible incentives for using the service (better grades, bonus points for submitting the tutoring transcript).

Do you have tips or success stories you are willing to share? Please post them in the comments!

Best, Alice

Hi Everyone-

Today I want to introduce you to Amy Sorenson. Amy began as faculty with CCCOnline, then was talked into joining the design team back when she worked for NJC in Eastern Colorado. She tried to leave last year, but as many of you know we almost never let that happen. Now she's migrating courses from CE to Vista. Once that project is finished I am sure we have other project.

Here are Amy's 5 things:

1. I’m a Wyoming native-graduated from the University of Wyoming with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Education. I’ve lived and taught in Colorado for 13 years. I currently reside North of Sterling, CO. In December, I received my Masters Degree in School Counseling.
2. I have three children-Bailey 12 (almost 13 in less than 2 weeks…eeeeeeek), Sydney 7, & Sterling 4. Two of which are redheads. You can determine which one is which from the pictures. The old saying… A picture is worth a thousand words. I think these pictures truly describe the personalities of my children.
3. I enjoy photography. I included a picture of a beautiful sunset. To follow Mary’s view from her deck… From my deck enjoy seeing many deer, coyotes, rabbits, sunrises & sunsets out on the Northeastern Plains of Colorado. Although, especially this winter, I haven’t been able to see anything but blowing snow!
4. I have taught the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)/Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA) courses for CCCOnline for a few years now about 3 or 4 years. Times flies when you are having fun!
5. My husband coaches 6 man football in Peetz, CO. Yes, they actually play football with 6 guys on an 80 yard field and no Peetz is not in Nebraska but if you blink when passing through it you might think so. (Peetz is 1.5 miles South of the Nebraska border). If you ever visit Cabelas in Sidney, NE you may pass through Peetz depending on your route.

Live Student Workshop on Avoiding Plagiarism Feb. 14

Student Services has provided this announcement for CCCOnline Students for the Eluminate Workshop on Avoiding Plagiarism Next Wed., Feb. 14th, at
noon. It was sent to the student list this afternoon. (Thanks, Jennifer Frank!).

Feel free to promote it to learners in your courses (could even have an extra-credit carrot attached!).

Key logistics you may want to stress: A person needs to check out the Elluminate site and do the tune-up before noon on the 14th. There is a limitation of 50 seats--so it's first come first serve as far as login to the conference. (No password required!).

Best, Alice

From Jennifer--

Avoiding Plagiarism Potholes: The Ethical and Correct Use of Sources

Every college student knows plagiarism is against the rules. It’s also very easy to do – even unintentionally! CCCOnline will show you how to recognize and stay away from plagiarism during a live, interactive, online student workshop:

Wednesday, Feb. 14, from noon to 12:45 p.m.
A repeat session is scheduled for Wednesday, March 14 from noon to 12:45 p.m.
Additional sessions will be offered if there is sufficient demand

Avoiding Plagiarism Potholes is a 45-minute online seminar during which students can discuss three key issues with moderator Alice.Bedard-Voorhees:
What is plagiarism?
What are the consequences of plagiarism?
What are some basic practices to avoid plagiarism in using sources created by others? (Best Practices include resources).

There are only 50 "seats" available for each session and both are on a first-come, first-served basis. CCCOnline will offer additional seminars if there is sufficient demand.

There are two simple steps to join the meeting.
Download the Elluminate software and pre-configure your system by going to the support page at: http://elm1.elluminate.com/support.html. The process may take anywhere from two to 20 minutes, depending on your Internet connection speed. You won’t be able to participate if you have a dial-up connection! In addition to the software, you’ll need speakers to hear the session and a microphone if you want to ask questions or participate in the discussion.Before the seminar start time, participants can join by using the following link:http://elm.elluminate.com/FRONTRANGE/join_meeting.html?meetingId=1170366918332. You DO NOT need a password to join! You may add this meeting to your scheduling application with the following link: http://elm.elluminate.com/FRONTRANGE/build_calendar.event?meetingId=1170366918332

5 Things - Designers - Beth

Beth is our flash programmer - the person you call whenever you want to design something interactive for your course (don't forget we actually pay for interactive activities, so talk to your chair if you have ideas along those lines.) Beth is incredibly creative and loves helping faculty take ideas from the vague thought stage to reality.

This is Beth:

I'm a triplet - hard to believe there are two others just like me. (Really, I'm the black sheep).

I'm a fishing fool - love to be on the river and my favorite summer past time is catching night crawlers.

I love solar energy. I catch it for everything - solar heat, solar water - my son even made a solar hotdog cooker. Next on the agenda - rig up something that will melt this ice.

I love camping - all year round. Survived last year's Fraser campout at minus 22 degrees.

Favorite stores - hardware store and quilting stores...that's right. I love designing and creating quilts. :)

Lisa

Welcome Jennifer Frank!

I am pleased to welcome the newest member of the CCCOnline family, Jennifer Frank. Jennifer has accepted the position of Advising/Financial Aid Coordinator. In addition to the advising/financial aid portion of her new job, she will be working very closely with the Program Chairs and Jonathan on the Web Site re-design as well as keeping the Schedule and Academic Calendar current. Jennifer will also be overseeing the development of our communication plan and will work on student e-mails and the Student Blog as we continue to build our online community.

Jennifer comes to us from the CCCS office where she worked as Senior Copy Writer in the Marketing Department, prior to that, she was the Communication Specialist at CCD. We are very excited to have her expertise in marketing and communication and look forward to working with her.

Thanks!
John H Schmahl
Director, Student Services
CCCOnline

5 Things - Designers - Cheryl

I bet many of you have already met Cheryl (on the left in both of these picures), but there may be things here you do't know about her. She was just here enthusing about Second Life and various reading she has been doing about using games and simulations in education, so be prepared for more exciting educational applications here at CCCOnline!

Cheryl's 5 things:

1. Like to snowshoe in the winter with mom and friends whenever possible With all the recent snow, it should be a most favorable season. Our favorite place to go is up the Poudre Canyon, where I spent much of my youth.

2. Motorcycles and girls rule! I have always enjoyed the freedom this sport has brought to my life, and often wonder how much money I have saved by riding instead of visiting the psychiatrists couch (Okay, I like Harley's and Indians, so I may be breaking even on that choice). More of my girlfriends are riding these days and hope to join up for an all girls trip this coming Summer.

3. I have a wonderful companion, Johnny. We have no children but a most beautiful cat daughter, Jesse (I dream of some day having a puppy). Jesse is more enthused with dad's earplugs than any other toy in the world (with exception of course the occasional field mouse and birds that try to sneak in the house when I'm napping). As you can see, she is also well-versed in WebCT.

4. I'm SUPER excited that I will have my Master's degree in Educational Technology at the end of Fall 2007. While it has been a long road to the top of the mountain, I have met some of the most interesting people in my life and gained many new friendships during the ascent. I'm not planning on another degree, but I am committed to being a life-long learner.

5. Although I haven't had the opportunity to travel much in my life, Victoria, B.C., Canada is one of the most beautiful places I have visited. I look forward to the opportunity of traveling more, once I graduate.

Lisa

Design Team - 5 Things

Hi Everyone-

I am continuing to introduce you to CCCOnline "office" staff. This week you get to read about the design team. The design team is coordinated by Cheryl Comstock. Full-time designers are Aaron Leonard and Mary Cash. We've also talked Amy Sorenson and Marge Vorndam into joining the team on a part-time basis. Kathy Miles is technically in charge of special projects, but that seems to mean mostly design team activities. And last, Beth Kitts is our in-house flash programmer.

Today I'd like to introduce you to Mary Cash. Mary joined the CCCOnline team back when we were an eCollege shop. Kathy Miles brought Mary to CCCOnline both as English faculty and as a course designer and faculty support just before we began the move to WebCT CE. Since then Mary has continues to design courses, spent some time as ENG faculty, and has been the primary developer of the learning object repository. The snowy picture is the view from her deck! Here's what Mary has to say:

Five things:

1. I was born and raised in Pueblo. My husband is also from Pueblo (we went to rival high schools); we met during college while working at a restaurant called Hobo Joes, but didn’t get married until around 10 years later (long and complicated story).
2. I have fraternal twin girls who are freshmen at Conifer High School. Our zoo family includes an aging dog, an even older cat, a nippy love bird, two guinea pigs, two Russian Tortoises, and 7 fish (had 8 but one recently went to the fishbowl in the sky). Kind of hard to do a group pet photo shot, so here’s a picture of Kathy (left) and Marie (right) instead.
3. I’m one of those perpetual student types, so I have BAs in Psychology and Journalism from the University of Northern Colorado, a bunch of undergrad business courses, an MA in English Studies from the University of Minnesota-Duluth, and a Masters in Library Science from Southern Connecticut State University (got the last one all online). I will say that the last round (MLS) rather did me in and I don’t seem to have any more urges to obtain more degrees. I would, however, take a class, if someone offered it, on how to avoid aphids and whiteflies in the greenhouse!
4. Before I became a designer, I taught college composition for 13 years. Now that I’ve recovered from paper-grading burnout, I keep getting urges to do it againJ
5. We live at 8,450 feet between Conifer and Bailey off Highway 285. This was my view off of our deck right around Christmas. True Fact: My 4Runner’s been in 4-wheel drive for at least part of my drive every day since that snow before Christmas!! (and to think!! I moved home from Duluth all those years ago because of the cold and snow!! What was I thinking??)





Kathy and Marie









Lisa

Spring Training

Hi Everyone-

Here is the spring training schedule (also posted on the website at http://cccs-lms.ccconline.org/Calendar/ ):

Spring Professional Development Schedule

March	April	May
Vista Next Steps 3/12-3/32	Teaching with Style - Learning Styles 4/2-13	Getting Started (Summer) 5/7-25 F2F 5/18
Writing Performance Objectives 3/5-19	Creating Grading Rubrics 4/6-20	Managing Discussions 5/14-25
Measuring What Matters 3/5-16	Mapping Your Course 4/16-20	Vista Next Steps 5/14-25
Creating Tests with Respondus 3/19-23	Creating Virtual Teams in Vista 4/16-27
	Creating Interactivities with Studymate 4/23-27

Wed. Feb. 7th Faculty Preview of Student Plagiarism Workshop

Ethical and correct use of sources in course work continue to be topics of concern. CCCOnline will be offering two live, student workshops on Wednesday, February 14th, with a repeat session Wednesday, March 14th – the time is noon – 12:45 on each of those days.

Avoiding Plagiarism Potholes will last for 45 minutes and intends to communicate with students about three key issues: what it is, the consequences, and basic practices to avoid plagiarism in using sources created by others (Best Practices includes resources).

You are invited to the faculty preview of the session this coming Wednesday, Feb. 7th at noon to provide feedback on this trial run, and to see if you would like to recommend it to your students.

Here are the details:

Meeting Name:Faculty Review of Avoiding Plagiarism Potholes
Start Date and Time:02/07/2007 12:00 MSTEnd Date and Time:02/07/2007 13:00MST

Attendees may join this meeting up until this time. The meeting will remain in session until the last person leaves.Public MeetingThis is a public meeting and will be displayed on the public schedule page. Attendees may join by using the following link:http://elm.elluminate.com/FRONTRANGE/join_meeting.html?meetingId=1170366918332Attendees may add this meeting to their scheduling application with the following link:http://elm.elluminate.com/FRONTRANGE/build_calendar.event?meetingId=1170366918332

Meeting Password:This is an open meeting. Attendees don't require a password to join.

Moderators:Alice.Bedard-VoorheesParticipant

Teleconferencing Instructions:

Welcome :)

To participate in this conference you will need to have downloaded the Elluminate software, have internet connection other than dial-up, have speakers for this session; a mic is optional. This session requires no password and has seats available on a first-come, first-serve basis. If you cannot get access when you come online, and it is very near conference time opening, this may be the reason.

If this is the first time you will be using Elluminate, you may be prompted to download some software which may take anywhere from 2 to 20 minutes depending upon your Internet connection speed. You can pre-configure your system with the required software by going to the support page located at: http://elm1.elluminate.com/support.html

If you need technical help during the session, feel free to call 303.918.7303.

Thanks for joining this session!

Best, Alice