• LTAs, "cool tools," favorites
  Receive or offer descriptions or free/easy to use Teaching/Learning/Tech resources that can be described effectively in just a few minutes each.     More...

• Compassionate Pioneers & Compassionate Pioneering 
  Receive or offer descriptions of local Compassionate Pioneers, acts of Compassionate Pioneering.  More...

• Brief Hybrid Workshops, eClips
  View/hear or play/demonstrate some of your own.  More...

• Visions/Theories/Metaphors Worth Working Toward
  Discuss:  Are we having a NEW kind of Support Service Crisis?  What can we do about it?  More...

• Assessment - Flashlight Online
  Receive or offer descriptions of ways of collecting and using information to guide improvements in teaching and learning with technology.  More...

• "Open Mic" -
  Ask for or offer to co-present a topic that is more timely, important, or fascinating to you that some of the above!  Use your headset, be heard!   More...

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• LTAs, "cool tools," favorites
  Receive or offer descriptions or free/easy to use Teaching/Learning/Tech resources that can be described effectively in just a few minutes each.
  A Low Threshold Application (LTA) is a teaching/learning application of information technology that is reliable, accessible, easy to learn, non-intimidating and (incrementally) inexpensive - having low INCREMENTAL costs for purchase, training, support, and maintenance.
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• Compassionate Pioneers & Compassionate Pioneering
  Compassionate Pioneers are those who not only reach beyond their own limits and lead the way in developing or trying new options, but who also encourage and help their colleagues to take the same path. Perhaps only a few of us can be “Compassionate Pioneers,” but most of us can engage occasionally in acts of “Compassionate Pioneering” – and we should do so as often as we can.
  To nominate a Compassionate Pioneer, you can use this form .
  To provide a Web-accessible audio recording about a Compassionate Pioneer, you can use a toll-free phone call to our Gabcast Channel.
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• Brief Hybrid Workshops, eClips
  A Brief Hybrid Workshop (BHW) is a group activity that usually requires less than 15 minutes. A BHW includes the use of one or more media clips (eClips) AND some other files, instructions, activities, documents, plans, guidelines, etc. A single Web page serves as the home base for the Workshop by including links to all essential elements. In a BHW, participants interact with each other and with leaders/presenters/facilitators - face-to-face, online, or both; synchronously, asynchronously or both.  A BHW is intended to help a group of people to produce or learn something useful to them.
  An "eClip" is a pre-recording produced as a single computer file.  It may include a variety of media elements:  sound, images, text, etc.   “A media clip is a short segment of media either an audio clip or a video clip. ” - From Wikipedia, 4/17/2007 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_clip. 
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• Visions/Theories/Metaphors Worth Working Toward -
  Visions, theories, and metaphors can help us clarify, shape, and focus our work.  And enable us to accomplish what is important to us.
  A "Vision Worth Working Toward" is more than an expectation and less than a prediction. It must be an inspiring but plausible goal that participants can work toward and make visible progress - soon.
  Are we having a NEW kind of Support Service Crisis?  What can we do about it?
  What are the new opportunities and challenges posed by educationally attractive technology options that cannot be owned, controlled or fully supported by any college or university?  E.g., by Google Docs; Flip Video Camcorders; FaceBook?
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• Assessment - Flashlight Online
  Productive Assessment - collecting useful information that guides improvements in teaching and learning with technology and in the programs that support those improvements. Flashlight Online is a powerful web-based tool that includes item banks, model surveys, and the ability to adapt surveys created by other authors.
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• "Open Mic" - use your headset, be heard! 
  What do you want to talk about?  What advice, information, resources do you want to ask for? What advice, insights, guidelines or accomplishments can you offer to colleagues?  Click here for advice about obtaining, connecting, and using a headset with your computer.
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