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What is the virtual conference?
- JSRCC Virtual Conference
- Richmond, Virginia, United States
- From October 22 to November 2, 2012 the third largest community college in Virginia will host its Annual Virtual Conference for Teaching and Learning Online. All presentations and discussions will be offered online via AvayaLive Engage.
2012 Virtual Conference
Hi Bev this is so wonderful ! I am looking forward to the whole experience !
ReplyDeleteTTFN Debby Wilkerson
Greetings from home. It's good to see you are using your blogging powers for good instead of evil.
ReplyDeleteSteve
Howdy, y'all. I understand there will be a strand for program heads and deans, which is why I joined the conference. Although I've been a program head for about a year and a half, I still feel like a rookie. Currently, I'm wrestling with how much I can expand the reading program in view of the DTC demand and the PRC renovation.
ReplyDeleteEric
Debbie, Eric, and Steve:
ReplyDeleteThank you for a lively start: Eric, I'll be sure to listen in on the program head conference as a trusty roving e-reporter.
Debbie, what does TTFN mean? I have a unit on texting--ironically I don't text (!).
Steve, I visit your Men's Health blog from time to time: conferencers: check out http://healthpost.blogspot.com/
Ummm...this is Steve Brandon. If I had that body, I might run a blog as well, but--sigh--I suspect few, if any, would want to follow the advice I'd have to give concerning how have my body.
ReplyDeleteOoops!is this Steve the Assessment Wizard? Rather than Steve the Health Guru: no matter both Steves are swell!
ReplyDeleteI have very little online experience. Will I be able to learn as I go?
ReplyDeleteWow chatter ! :-) how nice
ReplyDeleteTTFN = Ta Ta For Now when signing off... I don't use alot of letters but love that one !
To "tking": Using the tools is a productive and active way to learn the tools as these interactive tools are intuitive. When the conference opens on April 13, follow the links of interest to you. As you interface with the online conference, you will most likely target some areas of interest. With your wish list of 'need-to-knows,' do please register for the JSRCC Distance Learning Summit (bricks & mortar) on Friday, April 24 where you will have the chance to attend sessions to learn more--and even get some hands-on practice. Thank you, TKing for your question.
ReplyDeleteDebbie, Bev's English 112 classes have compiled a texting vocabulary list: TTFN will be an elegant addition--more elegant than LMAO.
ReplyDeleteIt's great to see the activity on the blog! As of Friday afternoon there were 91 people who signed up for the Virtual Conference. Looking forward to seeing everyone in cyberspace! JoyceB
ReplyDeleteOk I'll bite what is LAMO?
ReplyDeleteI said I don't use a lot of the letters :-)
LMAO (Laugh my you-know-what off).
ReplyDeleteOh my that is funny! :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks for giving me a chuckel on Easter Sunday no less....
D.
Ok so what happens on Monday ? am I suppose to log into a special site? living and learning thanks for the help
ReplyDeleteD.
I think that what we do on the site will be self-explanatory. There will be links that lead to conference presentations. The conference presentations will also be linked to Q&A Discussion Boards.
ReplyDelete. . . but before we end our chatter. . . I learned from my students, who compiled a texting glossary, that the lexicon is built on something like one-upsmanship. Example, first it was LOL, followed by ROTFLOL, not to be outdone by ROTFLMAO. When I first designed the Texting (BB Discussion Board module), as a decided outsider I referred to "Text Messaging"; students soon tutored me in "texting." Cool.
ReplyDeleteA recent conference and "Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants" caused me to spend time this semester speaking with all my classes about generational differences between their uses of digital literacy and that of their parents. One result was an expression of dismay at how old fashioned email is. Think how we might have compared email to the postal service in 1999. Most students communicate with each other via the cell, either speaking or texting. They see email as a genre used in school and in the professional world, and they are dismayed by the rules and delay in response which govern its use. When they go online, they tend to do so for specific purposes--shopping, finding and exchanging music, or doing school work; and, they tend to tap into the social network of their friends and family for information about weather, who is doing what, etc. They also don't tend to value knowledge for itself or by their selves.
ReplyDeleteSteve Brandon
Welcome! This is DAY ONE of the Reynolds 2009 Virtual Conference.
ReplyDeleteOur Conference Developers, Marian and Joyce, will soon be publishing Announcements: please check these out to be directed to the day's activities.
Of great interest are links at the left-hand margin of the conference screen: I reviewed "Creating a more connected campus" and the NYT's article on neighborhood news blogging "'Hyperlocal’ Web Sites Deliver News Without Newspapers."
To Steve: Then the generation we are teaching is focused on the specific and present tense: that might be why an instructor's request for reflection is a hard task for students to fulfill. Perhaps that is why a request to students to download attachments and SAVE in an electronic folder is a hard task to fulfill. Their 21st century psyches prompt them to focus (briefly and quickly) on the immediate moment.
ReplyDeleteHello All,
ReplyDeleteI am new at JSRCC. I do not know many of you, but I am in the process of learning about the people, JSRCC culture, and various available modes of learning. I teach technology (IST) courses and excited to be part of this virtual conference.
Tahir Aziz, Ph.D.
So, on a blog, the comments just stack up in the order they are sent in? I much prefer the threading and reply options of a discussion board. For example, I wanted to reply to Steve Brandon's distinction between generations by noting that responses get faster and shallower each generation. "Nobody writes letters anymore," the lament of the older generation once the Internet spread widely, seems now to be supplanted by "Nobody emails anymore" (except in school and business, as Steve noted).
ReplyDeleteYes, I-M and Twitter and such speed responses between pals and throughout networks of people with at least one common link, which has its place, but thoughtful responses don't seem to be the norm.