Darcy Trask's Professional Development Accomplishment

Hi All,

There's a very nice post in eNews about Darcy Trask's recent certification in hospitality education:

http://enews.coloradomtn.edu/index.cfm?method=c.profileDetail&ID=356

Darcy, one of the 2007 - 2008 recipients of faculty professional development funding, had this to say in sharing back about this opportunity:

With the support of CMC’s Faculty Development Program, I was able to attend the American Hotel and Lodging Association (AH&LA) Certified Hospitality Educator (CHE) Workshop. The CHE workshop prepares participants to complete a practical teaching demonstration and to sit for the CHE certification exam.

With the help of the workshop, I was able to successfully pass the exam and practical lecture demonstration and to earn my CHE in September 2008. It is exciting to be able to tie current professional knowledge from the AH&LA’s Educational Institute (EI) to our student’s classroom experience. CMC’s Management program utilizes the AH&LA EI curriculum and students take supervisory-level certification exams at the end of each CMC course. It is a wonderful link with both the student’s experience and the industry to have faculty involved in this executive-level AH&LA professional certification.

If you are interested in submitting a proposal to the Faculty Professional Development Fund, you will find information to do so attached. The next submission date is January 15th: The%20Faculty%20Prof%20Dev%20Funds%20Info.doc

Holiday Gifts or Breaktime Reading?

Whether it's thinking of holiday gifts or putting together your leisure reading, here's a list for 2008 from Publishers Weekly.

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6610357.html

Notes and Resources from AECT

I've been at sessions at the AECT (Association for Educational Communications and Technology). In addition to participating in sesssions that were presented in a room but audio cast into Second Life where others participated in Second Life, there are many good tips to bring back.

One great session among those was Bill Freese's on SL safety issues--really well presented and helpful: the links to those resources were already available through his social bookmarks on Delicious.com: http://delicious.com/willfree/AECT2008handouts

Chris Haskell at Boise State shared he podcasts his syllabus and first assignment, and let's students know they can email him for a text copy of the syllabus.

If he has students using phones, he has them text him and grabs those addresses into an email list so he can send announcements that way as well.

Since we start our hybrid faculty workshop, Tuesday, I've also been keeping eyes and ears out for sessions and resources. I attended one round table about a hybrid program study and picked up a reference to a video from that presenter, also picked up a book on the prepping for hybrid deliveries.

This morning I was at a session which stressed the incorporation of online interactivities as part of a learning process: http://uwgtech.pbwiki.com/. Many of these resources came from sources on the web. As at a conference, many educators continue to be generous in their sharing of resources through the web.

Onward, there's one more session this morning. In the meantime, I've been wrangling with the hotel IP (cost and access) and Blackboard.

"Social Media and Education..."

http://hosted.mediasite.com/hosted5/Viewer/?peid=5eb9cd4798a4488288e0b6d117f5c99c

Sarah Robbins-Bell has become widely known in the world of higher ed and social media. She gave this hour session at Educause this week. You can also flip through her slide show.

It has a challenging title, but what she is really talking about is how social media has changed how we get and share knowledge, and what the learning implications are for institutions of higher ed in preparing our learners for their roles in an information economy.

It's worth the hour--she is smart, part of the higher ed community, and names strategies.

Let us know what you think.