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Green and Sustainable LearningPANEL Teaching online during lean times poses a challenge for the online instructor who wants to create interesting online courses on limited and reduced budgets. Fortunately, there are many no- to low-cost tools and resources readily available online for instructors to use, if you know about them. Discover a host of free online Web 2.0 tools that can be used to create presentations, webpages, blogs, wikis and that can enhance communication in online courses.
Multi-user virtual environments (MUVEs) such as Second Life, OpenSim, and others are changing the way we view online learning. It's no longer simply asynchronous or synchronous learning as we now have immersive learning at our fingertips. In this session, we will explore several MUVEs, identify ways in which MUVEs can be used to enhance your existing classes and professional development programs, and examine what the future potentially holds for MUVEs and education.
Sustainability is increasing as a topic of many curricula. How do you expand experiential learning in sustainability courses? Hands-on labs and field experiences are valuable but pose practical challenges in online and hybrid programs. This session will support dialog among educators, instructional designers, technology experts, students, and others who are interested in developing creative and cost-effective approaches based on new technologies to teach sustainability. This workshop considers the challenges, opportunities and limits of virtual environments, simulation-based learning, social networking, and other technologies, which provide immersive, engaging environments that support learning related to sustainability.
Learn how to use lecture capture in less than 15 minutes. Capturing your lectures can help you save time and money, improve retention, become more tech savvy, and most importantly increase your students’ success. Join us to learn how lecture capture delivers many benefits to your students—including the opportunity to review difficult lectures, make-up classes missed due to the college holiday schedule or emergencies, and help students prepare for exams. We’ll cover how lecture capture allows your students to take notes digitally within recorded lectures, download lecture notes, and upload lectures onto their iPods for added convenience. The implementation of this project at Ivy Tech Northeast under Andaz Ahmad’s leadership has been selected as a finalist in the IMS Global Learning Consortium.
Simulations provide meaningful learning experiences for students, yet they are often overlooked for online learning. Experience this enlightening, virtual simulation about the impact of production and the pressures of a market economy on the environment. This session will not only provide you with the simulation materials, but also it will model the tools available in a synchronous classroom to make this simulation and others possible. |
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The last few years have seen unprecedented leaps in the technology available to deliver instruction remotely. These revolutionary tools are making educational leaders rethink the concept of 'in-class' time in ways that early Distance Learning efforts could only imagine. Clayton Christensen's landmark work, "Disrupting Class," actually predicts that by 2019, 50% of all high school classes will be taught either fully online or in a "blended" fashion, with between 30% and 80% of the interaction happening online. I would extend this suggestion further to say that these technologies will reinvent K12 educational options just as iTunes revolutionized the music industry. A majority of students will soon be 'remixing' courses from various institutions to build their own class schedule as though they were picking out the best tracks from several albums to create their own mix. And teachers and curriculum designers will pick and choose only the best chapters and lessons from hundreds of digital textbooks to build their course textbook. Learn how to prepare yourself for this 'remixing' of traditional education.
Looking for media to grab your students’ attention? Engaging students can be challenging in today’s media-rich environment. Delivering SCORM compliant Flash may be a solution to provide rich interactive media from within your LMS. You will see a step-by-step demonstration of a Flash quiz template designed to interface easily with Moodle. Walk away with ideas to start your own Flash based interactives.
In today's economy, where even teachers do not have a solid promise of a job from year-to-year, it pays to diversify our talents. Teaching online may be just the career choice for you. There are many online job opportunities available. Learn how to find them. |
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Universal AccessPANEL Students with disabilities are part of the growing diversity on U.S. postsecondary campuses. This student population presents both challenges and opportunities for faculty, administrators, and staff to design programs and curricula that are accessible for all students. The movement toward the application of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles has started to gain momentum as institutions search for strategies and innovations to meet these challenges. This panel will highlight the achievements of faculty/staff who are applying UDL to their respective programs and courses in creative and innovative ways.
Did you know that most people can talk three times faster than they can type? Voice activation software can help both faculty and students improve learning and it increases accessibility through the use of adaptive technology. This session will demonstrate how Dragon Naturally Speaking voice activation software can help you provide more in-depth feedback to students to enhance learning, respond to email and discussion boards, and create universally accessible documents.
On campus we often attend diversity training in an effort to “manage” diversity in the classroom. This kind of training can help to create a positive learning environment for all students and ultimately a welcoming campus climate. But when we move instruction from the campus to the virtual classroom, how can we continue this work? This session will examine ways to be aware of diversity-related issues in the classroom and ways to manage them in an effort to create a positive online learning environment.
In order to provide access to all students and to comply with federal and state law, some components of online classes need to provide captioning or transcriptions. This obligation is sometimes perceived to be a barrier to developing and delivering high-quality, media-rich distance learning courses. The Distance Education Captioning and Transcription grant provides community colleges with funding for live and asynchronous captioning and transcription in order to expand student access to online classes and to support faculty innovation. In this session, you will learn who qualifies for funding and how to apply.
Space Log…2010…it is the future, what does your classroom look like? Students today use different modalities for learning, so how can educators help students meet their achievement needs? Alexandria City Public Schools has brought the 21st century alive by providing their students with the access needed to move into the virtual realm. After this session, you will have the resources and strategies to incorporate these same principles in your classroom or school district. Presenters will share online textbooks, vetted search engines, open source materials, and much more that will serve all students including ELL and Special Education populations. |
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Leadership, Planning & Evaluation Join us for a panel discussion on the current state of hybrid online learning in K-12. Panelists will be educational leaders in online learning in California. The session will be an informal discussion on the current state of hybrid online learning in K-12: the benefits experienced as a result of deploying hybrid courses, the primary challenges to implementation, the pedagogical shift that takes place when implemented, discussion of exemplary course design, and ideas for creating support for this type of program in local districts. Panelists will represent a variety of districts and programs, large, mid-size and small from throughout California. Each panelist brings a unique perspective on deploying, funding, and supporting online courses in their local setting.
Blackboard? Moodle? Sakai? Etudes? Desire2Learn? WebStudy? Epsilen? eCollege? Which course management system is right for your institution? How do you go about systematically reviewing alternatives? The discussion will include strategies for conducting a faculty needs assessment of course management features as well as a sample decision-matrix for gathering input from all stakeholders. The discussion will also include the pros/cons of alternative course management systems. Bring your opinions and your personal experience to the table!
How does a college make Distance Education a substantive part of its mission? Find out what Moorpark College learned in the process of applying to the Western Association of Schools and Colleges - Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (WASC-ACCJC) for substantive change. Find out how to turn an accreditation-reporting task into a useful tool for planning and program development.
Online learning is revolutionizing education across the globe. The best teachers can now reach the most remote students. Discover how online learning offers a solution for expanding opportunities, global collaboration, and 21st century skills, so all schools can deliver on the promise that every student should have access to the best education available, regardless of his or her neighborhood and geography.
Tired of the old, cold, static text-and-graphics online delivery formats? Learn how "human presence" is the missing link that is transforming distance education today. Dr. Douglas E. Hersh, Dean, Educational Programs, Santa Barbara City College (SBCC), will discuss his research in human presence and how SBCC transitioned from Blackboard to a customized version of Moodle that students and faculty love to use.
What are the experiential differences between successful and non-successful students in online courses? This presentation will focus on the 2009 results of a longitudinal study of the interaction factors which promote retention and success for online students attending general education and transfer level courses at a community college. These site-based research findings demonstrate the different experiences of students – as told by students – which contribute to success or failure in online courses. Let’s discuss how this research can be put into action to help promote student success in online courses.
Many barriers exist for incarcerated youths to complete their high school diplomas. Public schools can’t verify, translate, or transfer the education of incarcerated individuals. Web-based learning provides clear documentation on student progress and a secure conduit between schools, corrections facilities, and half-way houses. Building cohesive alliances between responsible parties, web-based learning provides effective education transition for students, teaching staffs, and schools. Learn how this approach is helping youths behind bars graduate from high school.
This session will review what was learned in developing a fully online CTE course. The Orange County Department of Education received an SB70 grant to develop an online Production & Design course. Discussions will include incorporating synchronous and asynchronous elements (Elluminate, Google Docs, etc.), local and cloud-based curriculum development software (SoftChalk, UDUTU, etc.), as well as student-centered constructivist tools such as interactive, web-based activities and tactile manipulatives. Additionally, the structure and process of the curriculum development team will be reviewed.
Evaluation is often an anxiety-provoking experience. In University and College settings instructors typically are evaluated annually on both their content expertise and pedagogical approach. However, beyond the instructor's perceptions,,what value does this add to the institution? This session will offer vantages on online instructor evaluation from a variety of perspectives: the administrator, the instructor, the faculty member, and the student. The presenters, who are faculty members and online evaluators, will deconstruct each of the roles. Preliminary research and the value that consistent and reliable online evaluations can provide will be discussed. |
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Online Teaching Effective PracticesPANEL Multimedia tools such as videos and other technology tools can help bring students and teachers "closer" than the physical presence of the instructor and student. According to the Chickering and Gamson's Seven Principles of Good Practice for Undergraduate Education, that contact between students and faculty and among students is a key component of learning. In this session, Beaver and Jones demonstrate practical applications of technology tools to create teacher presence.
Step-by-step directions and demonstrations of how to capture an online instructional session via CCC Confer are presented. This session will demonstrate the archive process, the use of Publish to make an archived session portable, the use of various editing packages to edit the session, and the options available for sharing the end product. Participants will learn the best techniques for capturing the session, formats for making the archive portable and sharable, video editing packages (high- and low-end), and available (and free) options for posting the end product, including YouTube, iTunes, 3CRSS, TeacherTube, and portable media.
Presents the year's best examples of Web conferencing from CCC Confer instructors, with captured (and edited) archives and presentations from the instructors themselves. Examples will demonstrate:
Still using email as your primary form of communication? That's so '90s! There are a variety of free and paid programs that you can use to communicate with your students in a more efficient and engaging manner. Learn how to use Google Voice to send and receive free text messages. Send group text messages using TextMarks. Screen capture in video using Jing or Camtasia to deliver instructions and grading feedback. Make a live course calendar with Google Calendar. Use Google Docs to create a library of detailed grading comments. Learn these tools and you too can join the 21st century.
Are you looking to move beyond asynchronous online instruction and want to offer live webinars but don't know where to begin? In this session we'll explore tried and true ways you can make synchronous virtual instruction more engaging, motivating, and effective for students.
Are you a new BlackBoard user? Or have you been using it a little bit but want to get more out of it? Come to this session to discover the features of BlackBoard and the best practices for getting the most out of the tools it provides. We’ll be covering Course Content builder, Menu options, Learning Context, e-Syllabus, BlackBoard Mail, Discussion Boards, Group setup, Announcements, Learning Modules, Video lectures using Camtasia, Assessments, Web Links, and Grade Book.
Yes – synchronous sessions do have a place in online courses. They have proven to be successful in the retention of students in online classes in California and Florida. Live e-learning and conferencing using CCC Confer’s Elluminate has been incorporated into a traditional online course in Spanish. Students interact synchronously with Guatemalan native language teachers to supplement their college Spanish online course. This session focuses on how live-learning outcomes help engage students and promote retention and persistence in the online classroom. Strategies will assist instructors in designing courses online that reflect the constructivist theory of student-centered learning.
Planning to convert your class to an online format? Looking for a simple, effective strategy for organizing and preparing your online course? This session will provide you with the tools you need to transfer your current face-to-face course materials to a hybrid or online environment. Determine your objectives, plan your activities, and decrease your stress! Bring your challenging assignments, and we'll brainstorm as a group how you can make the same material come alive online!
It can be difficult to find assignments for online courses that engage students with diverse learning styles. I will share a few successful assignments for my online courses. In one assignment self-selected groups must pick weekly from a list of topics and devise a way to teach that concept to high school students. Students are encouraged to create interactive games or video for lesson plans. Other assignments use a similar model but require group podcasts submissions, video interviews, public service announcement posters, and more. After assignments are graded, projects are shared with the class for upcoming exam preparation. Projects are graded based on understanding of topic, individual contribution, and lesson creativity. Devising effective assignments, grading schemes, and example student projects will be discussed.
Ever feel like teaching an online class is like running a marathon? Just when you think you’ve got your pace, a hill comes along. How do you maintain momentum? This session will focus on the path, including the peaks and valleys, to successful unit design by incorporating strategies from the Understanding by Design series. Join us as we show you one teacher’s online race-to-the-finish line using backwards design.
Dramatically improve the success of nursing students by using Wimba Live Classroom to supplement learning. Discover how the use of Wimba to record and archive lectures thereby freeing class time to review case studies can lead to student success and a thriving nursing program!
Middle School Online? Absolutely! Join three Julian Charter School teachers as we discuss our experience teaching writing, math, and science to students online in grades 6-8 for the past 2 years. We will share classroom management techniques for student engagement and collaboration in a synchronous distance learning environment via Elluminate. We will also be showing examples of our student-created technology projects, which we also use for authentic assessment.
Parenting a teen is tricky at best. Tracking and mentoring a teen who is attending an online high school sends that parenting into another dimension. This session focuses on strategies learning coaches/parents have used and can use to keep their online students actively engaged and on track. It covers some of the pitfalls, and highlights some of the rewards that the learning coach might experience. It concludes with a section about how to find a quality online program and what to be looking for.
The availability of online education for high school students is growing rapidly. As online education grows, the provision of skills and knowledge necessary for students to function in the world beyond high school depends on qualified teachers. Qualified online teachers are a necessity. To be effective, online instructors must be trained in the technology needed to deliver a course, communicate with students, assess activities, and troubleshoot basic issues with the Learning Management System. Teachers must have the ability to organize and deliver material differently than in the classroom. Online education is a significant method of teaching and learning. Since lack of technical support and training is one of the biggest teacher inhibitors, training needs to promote effective teaching strategies and bridge the difference in perception and reality of online education. Teachers need to see the learning benefits involved, and understand their role as facilitator. Students are the central focus in online education.
Safety must always be considered when adopting new technologies and integrated them into lessons. This session will focus on a variety of ways to integrate digital citizenship into existing lessons. In addition, standalone lessons about Internet safety and Internet source citation will be shared. After this session, teachers will have a simple first aid kit to explore new frontiers and blaze a trail through the expanse of the web.
Get creative with attendance! Learn how to use frequent and fun ways to communicate with your students (personalized HTML based emails, greetings, and MP3's). Learn how to use creative techniques to solve low synchronous and asynchronous attendance. Our school's prior average of synchronous attendance was lower than 17%; by using innovative techniques, our attendance is now averaging about 60%! Learn how to replicate this at your school.
You have been asked to develop an online class on a short deadline. Besides panicking, what do you do? Go to Disneyland! Amusement parks allow visitors freedom to explore, while also channeling traffic by target locations, such as gift shops. Learn how to balance individual learning and differing abilities with the learning outcomes of your course.
Presenting online material in alternative media formats allows us to appeal to a wider variety of student learning styles. Watch this demonstration or follow along on your laptop as the presenter shows how fast, easy, and inexpensive it is to record lectures and upload them to course management systems and free websites. In a matter of minutes--and for very little or no cost--you can supplement your online course to better reach your auditory learners.
Are you feeling challenged about transferring your face-to-face course to the online environment? Don’t worry. In this session, you’ll learn how to rethink and restructure your course by starting with the syllabus. You can then apply your targeted syllabus to define and guide the rest of your online classroom.
Many students prefer asynchronous online classes because they are so convenient. Even so, don’t be afraid of using some live (synchronous) sessions as well in your online courses. Find out how to organize and engage students by seeing a demo math session and how students interact with their class assignments. Students’ comments and success rate data from three different community colleges will also be covered. For a preview, check this link: http://www.onlineteaching.com/comments.asp
Teaching a foreign language course online can be a challenge. How do you teach and evaluate oral language abilities and create experiences for learners that make the language useful and meaningful? This session will showcase a variety of ways to make second-language learning applicable and meaningful for learners in an online course.
Webs, charts, diagrams and more--visual organizers are valuable learning and instructional tools and can easily be adapted for use in the virtual school environment. This session will offer some practical uses for visual organizers in the synchronous and asynchronous online classrooms. Teachers who have successfully implemented these in the virtual classroom will share student examples, teacher-created materials, and online resources.
One of the major focuses of education--especially online education--is student retention and satisfaction. This presentation will concentrate on outreach practices inside and outside the classroom. These practices will include measures such as drafting positive emails, promoting dynamic discussions, developing a classroom community, offering motivational feedback for grading, as well as providing general outreach efforts. When put into practice, these measures will help to create a positive experience for instructors and students alike.
A well-designed course sets the tone for successful online education, yet the complexity of teaching presence makes this task just so extremely difficult! What is the first step? Where do I go from here? This presentation provides a quick start for faculty with limited online teaching experiences. Key principles and best practices will be presented to provide guidelines for effective online instruction.
During California's five-year textbook moratorium, learn how you can take advantage of free, high quality, Open Source textbooks as part of the Digital Textbook Initiative. As the textbook publishing industry charts their future course, where will the revolution lead us? We'll compare the mistakes made during the music wars and the current college textbook missteps, and we'll share probable models for future resources. |
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How do we help students choose a major and a career for their college success? Online classes can help students explore various careers and majors. Learn online tips and tricks on vocational assessment, personality assessment, career exploration, career research, and how to choose a major. Learn how to engage students online with practical community assignments such as informational interviewing, resume writing, and personality/vocational assessment. Learn how to invite guest speakers and conduct career panel sessions online. This session is great for counselors, career advisors, CTE instructors, and non-credit educators.
The San Diego Community College District’s Online Learning Pathways unit supports faculty and students engaged in over 1000 online and web-enhanced courses with approximately 30,000 student/course enrollments every semester. We provide faculty training and 24/7/365 support for students and faculty. Our unit includes 5 full-time and 2 part-time employees. We’d like to share with you the tools and techniques we employ to make this possible, including our unit website, our 24/7 helpdesk (provided by Presidium Learning), our Online Faculty Resource Center, our EdTech innovations Blog, our online multimedia tutorials, and various support tools such as Jing, Camtasia, and GoToAssist.
Want to liven up your online or Web-enhanced course with digital media? Want the ability to upload your own digital files and create your own playlists? Want access to a video library with over 3,000 captioned, ADA-compliant volumes of video specifically developed for community colleges? Want all of these for FREE?! Come find out how you can access one of the newest instructional technologies developed by a California Community College for community colleges.
Are you interested in technology and looking for new ideas for teaching college success? Cuyamaca Community College has designed a college success course that appeals to the technology savvy New Millennial generation. Learn how technology is successfully integrated into traditional, blended and online courses. This college success course has increased student persistence by 27%. The course includes topics from college, career and lifelong success. This student success course has been approved for transfer to four-year universities and serves as a bridge from high school to community college to the university.
Thinking about adding an online component to your writing center or tutoring program? Come and see how Sierra College has built a successful synchronous online writing center program that boosts retention and success rates for both online and on-ground students. We will share methods and first year data. Bring your questions--we'll save time for discussion!
The increasing cost of textbooks and instructional materials have limited access to education for many. This presentation will provide one response to this challenge, namely the development of a content “playlist” consisting of pointers to Open Educational Resource (OER) content as an alternative or supplement to traditional textbooks.
Research indicates that students choose online education for convenience and flexibility. Even though they are online, these students still want the same opportunities to socialize and the same sense of community usually only available to campus-based students. This presentation demonstrates strategies to engage distance students in a closer affiliation with the department, university, and discipline, through 1) development of an online student organization mirroring traditional campus-based academic clubs in terms of service, involvement and activities; 2) use of social networking sites (i.e., Facebook and Twitter) to promote ongoing communication, awareness and networking; 3) development of an email newsletter to explore issues and share department updates; and 4) promotion of academic competitions (i.e., essays, posters, multimedia) to encourage exploration of the discipline and sharing of academic discovery. We'll also explore both the successes and the challenges of these student outreach efforts.
Are you responsible for or involved in providing faculty support services on your campus? Organizing faculty support services for online teaching can be daunting. Find out how developing and communicating a flexible faculty support plan can help set priorities for your department, your staff, and your budget. Come explore possibilities, learn about resources, and integrate ‘best practices’ for organizing faculty support services on your campus. |
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Technology & Social NetworkingPANEL Social networks such as Facebook are certainly popular with so many of our students in their personal lives. This panel discussion will focus on both the possibilities and challenges in adapting such networks for use in the virtual classroom.
Are you ready to take the dive into Wave--Google's latest game changer? Join us as we explore Wave as both a synchronous and asynchronous, collaborative learning tool that can enhance face-to-face and online courses. Participants will learn about Wave blips, waves, gadgets, robots, and more.
Web 2.0? It sounds cool, but just how do you integrate Web 2.0 platforms in the blended or online classroom? What collaborative and user-generated content tools work best with your lesson objectives? This session will review various Web 2.0 tools and offer a systematic method for selecting and utilizing these platforms in your courses. The session will include examples of how Web 2.0 tools have been integrated in online and traditional courses in both K12 and higher-education. Both presenters have years of experience training faculty to utilize technology in the online and traditional classroom.
Student access to new technology has increased dramatically. Why not engage students with the tools they use themselves? Students love Facebook and Twitter, which are both easy to use. Find out how you can integrate them into your teaching. You will learn basic terminology and use, creative educational uses, caveats, and security features.
RSS=Really Simple Syndication--we've worked hard to actually make it simple. Throughout my years of teaching faculty to create amazing podcasts, I always heard loud groans at the mere mention of XML and coding. And then there's getting permission from your school to host the podcast. It just wasn't simple. Come find out about the 3CRSS solution we created. Find out how it's a great solution for a large system, and how you might benefit from a central repository (or use ours if you're a CCC).
Have you ever heard about podcasting and wondered how it could enhance student learning? Hear (and see) some inspiring examples of audio, video and enhanced podcasts, both student and faculty created! Find out what goes into creating and then regularly delivering your own podcast. Trust me, you won't need a fancy studio to do it—your PC or Mac will do just fine!
California State University, San Marcos (CSUSM) is creating satellite campuses in nearby communities and aggressively pursuing online programs. The CSUSM Kellogg Library Virtual Reference Working Group has experimented with free and low-cost tools to engage online learners. Presenters will briefly demonstrate free or low-cost tools for screencasting, document sharing and collaboration, instant messaging, and creating online research guides. Presenters will organize "Speed Geeking," where attendees visit multiple stations for mini-presentations on each of the different technologies and ask questions. This presentation format allows for more intimate conversation to take place and for online teaching technology sparks to fly.
The average student spends about eleven hours per day on "screen time" with mobile phones, computers, televisions or video game systems. As these devices are converging into fewer and thus more capable and connected IT tools, how will their current and future capabilities change your students’ expectations of their learning environment, both inside and beyond the classroom? Join Dr. Markus Geissler for a journey into the future of teaching and learning technology and for some tips on how you can get there with your students.
With generous support from the Interwork Institute of SDSU, we have created a desktop Personal Video Studio that we would like to share with you. With 20 minutes of training using this tool, any faculty member can produce sophisticated, accessible instructional video from a variety of inputs including cameras, computers (screencasting), document cameras and other video sources. Production is live-to-tape with no editing needed. The system includes the software and hardware necessary to make the video accessible via captioning. We will demonstrate the studio and invite audience members to try it out. See more at: http://online2.sdccd.edu/dgiberson/pvs_demo/.
Trying to persuade your high school to offer online courses but facing resistance from the administration or school board? Convince them with online service learning. Learn how to integrate the seven elements of high-quality service learning (integrated learning, quality service, collaboration, student voice, civic responsibility, reflection, and evaluation) into an online course that could supplement classroom work, be offered as an online club, or stand alone as a graded online elective.
Give your students an added dimension to their learning! This session shows you how to incorporate audio cheaply and easily in course platforms using SONY Sound Forge 8.0. We’ll walk through recording and editing/enhancing an audio and saving and uploading it to a CMS. You can put it online so your students can listen while scrolling the text script, or you can put it on an iPod making your course truly portable--anytime, anywhere. (Who says learning can't occur while at the gym or out jogging?) Participants also get the lowdown on free online storage for their recordings for later deployment. |
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The event is brought together through a joint effort of the California Educational Technology Consortium (CETC), and Computer Using Educators (CUE). Both groups focus their efforts on improving K20 education through the use of technology. www.k20cetc.org | www.cue.org
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