Intro to Wolfram's Computable Document Format (CDF)

Please join us for an afternoon presentation by Math professor David Clydesdale. Dave attended the AMATYC Conference last year with an Instructional Technology Committee mini-grant and looks forward to sharing details regarding a free software product that may be of interest to others:

DATE: Thursday, Nov. 1st, 2012

TIME: 3:30 – 4:15PM

LOCATION: F124 (CII Lab)

TITLE: An Introduction to Wolfram’s Computable Document Format (CDF) Free Software Product

PRESENTER: David Clydesdale of the Harper Math Department

DESCRIPTION: Drop by the CII Lab (F124) on Thursday afternoon for a brief introduction/demonstration of the free Wolfram Computable Document Format (CDF) Software Product (www.wolfram.com/cdf-player/). Wolfram’s CDF product enables easy creation and deployment of interactive documents that can be used in a variety of courses. Just bring your questions and your curiosity along to the session.

SPONSORED by: The Instructional Technology Committee

Registration/RSVP: Not required

Technology Grants Available!

Harper College full-time faculty are invited to submit an application for a Technology Grant. Technology Grants are available for discipline-specific, technology-related professional development projects as well as for information gathering as to how to utilize technology as a tool in the teaching and learning process, such as attending related conferences or taking related courses.

Here's a quick list of conferences related to teaching, e-learning, and instructional technology that are on the horizon:

• EDUCAUSE Annual Conference
  Anaheim, California
  10/12/10 - 10/15/10 (an online option will be held 10/13/10 - 10/15/10
  http://www.educause.edu/E2010
  
  
• SLATE Conference (Blackboard Users Group)
  Chicago, Illinois
  10/21/10 - 10/22/10
  http://slategroup.uchicago.edu


• League of Innovations STEMtech Conference
  Orlando, Florida
  10/31/10 - 11/3/10
  http://www.league.org/stemtech
  Virtual Conference: http://www.league.org/stemtech/online
  
  
• Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning
  Orlando, Florida
  11/3/10 - 11/5/10
  http://sloan-c.org/aln
  Virtual Conference: http://sloanconsortium.org/aln/2010aln_virtualoption


• eLearning 2011
  St. Petersburg Beach, Florida
  2/19/11 - 2/22/11
  http://www.itcnetwork.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=214
  
  
• International Online Conference for Teaching and Learning
  Typically held in March
  http://www.internationalonlineconference.org/
  
  
• Cyberlearning Tools for STEM Education
  San Francisco, California
  3/8/11 - 3/9/11
  http://cyberlearningstem.org
  
  
• EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference
  Chicago, Illinois
  3/14/11 - 3/15/11
  http://net.educause.edu/content.asp?page_id=1351&bhcp=1
  
  
• TechEd - CUE Conference
  Palm Springs, California
  3/17/11 - 3/19/11
  http://www.techedevents.org/future/
  
  
• TCC Online Conference
  Typically held in April
  http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu
  
  
• Sloan-C Blended Learning Conference
  Oak Brook, Illinois
  4/19/10 - 4/20/10
  http://sloanconsortium.org/blended

See Faculty Development for information on Technology Grant applications and deadlines.