Adjunct Faculty Newsletter OCTOBER 2009

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Fulbright to Increase Invites to Community Colleges

According to the Chronicle of Higher Ed., the Fulbright will increase invites for participation from the community colleges:

Fulbright Article

Free Lectures

PBS and NPR make openly available thousands of lectures by some of the world's foremost scholars, authors, artists, scientists, policy makers and community leaders. Lectures can be accessed through the site called Forum Network.

Conference on Information Technology

I will be attending the Conference on Information Technology from Oct. 10 - 14.
My hope is to concentrate on the Teaching and Learning Track sessions. I will be posting thoughts and ideas within this blog during the conference. This link to the conference might give you some ideas of topics for this year’s conference.
http://www.league.org/2/conferences/cit/2009/profile.cfm

New CMC Virtual Library Resource

CMC Virtual Library offers access to a new language learning tool, Tell Me More. Tell Me More provides lessons for Spanish, Spanish (Latin American), English, French, German, Italian, & Dutch.

Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning

Here is a very good meta analysis on distance learning.
I particularly appreciated this table that has some great ideas.
http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/tech/evidence-based-practices/finalreport.pdf

Free Chat on TH, Sept. 3 at 9 am on Mobile Devices in the Classroom

Hi All,

Cell phones and other devices are high on the radar screens in education. For a free chat session with panelists who are following these developments, join this session via the internet, TH, Sept. 3rd at 9 AM.

http://www.edweek.org/ew/events/chats/2009/09/03/index.html

Best, Alice