Technology Grants Available

Submit your Technology Grant Applications soon for consideration at the ITC's September meeting. There are three outstanding national conferences this fall that should be quite useful to faculty.

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:

• STEMtech Conference
  League for Innovation in the Community College
  Indianapoils, Indiana
  10/2/11 - 10/5/11
  http://www.league.org/2011stemtech/
  



• SLATE Conference
  Midwest Blackboard Users Group
  Chicago, Illinois
  10/13/11 - 10/14/11
  http://slategroup.uchicago.edu/slateconference.html
  
  
• 2011 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference
  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  10/18/11 - 10/21/11
  http://www.educause.edu/E2011
  
  
  
• 17th International Conference on Online Learning
  SLOAN Consortium
  Orlando, Florida
  11/9/11 - 11/11/11
  http://sloanconsortium.org/aln



• eLearning 2012 Conference
  Instructional Technology Council
  Long Beach, California
  2/18/12 - 2/21/12
  http://www.itcnetwork.org/elearning-conference/general-information.html
  
  
• Midwest 2012 Regional Conference
  EDUCAUSE
  Chicago, IL
  3/26/12 - 3/28/12
  http://www.educause.edu/MWRC12
  
• 9th Annual Sloan-C Blended Learning Conference and Workshop
  SLOAN Consortium
  Milwaukee, WI
  4/23/12 - 4/24/12
  http://sloanconsortium.org/blended

ITC Brown Bag Presentation: Applying Online Course Design Review

Art History Instructor Karen Patterson will discuss her experiences in Matt Ensenberger's graduate class, Applying Online Course Design Review, at an ITC Brown Bag Lunch Session on Thursday, 4/21, in F124 at 12:30pm.

Karen will explain the process of applying the course design rubric to her online ART 105: Introduction to Arts class. She will also describe how her course changed and improved due to the process of peer review.

ITC Brown Bag Session: New Learning Module Feature in Blackboard 9.1

Join us on Tuesday, April 19 at 11:45 in F-124 as Dave Braunschweig, Computer Information Systems Associate Professor, shares his experiences with the new Learning Module feature in Blackboard.