3rd Annual CPCC eLearning Conference
 | The 3rd Annual CPCC eLearning Conference: e-Learning, Instructional Design, and Instructional Technologies Training You can attend great FREE sessions on e-learning, learning systems, online teaching, and emerging instructional technologies at the 3rd annual "CPCC eLearning Conference" series during THE Geek Fest hosted by CPCC Instructional Development / eLearning. We encourage educators, faculty, and those interested in distance learning to participate. The "CPCC eLearning Conference" is an annual outreach and training initiative that is timed to coordinate with the National Distance Learning Week (NDLW) which is sponsored by the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA). |
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 | Free Cool Tools, Tips, Tricks, and Innovations What's in your toolbox? There are amazing tools, web sites, and digital resources available to enhance your online experience. Attend this session and you will be introduced to best practices, tips, tricks, and some fun geeky stuff that can help deliver innovative and engaging environments for communicating, collaborating, teaching, and learning.
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 | Click, Text and Poll Attention Students - Technology for improving today's classroom! This session will allow participants to experience the hands-on technology available in today's classroom environment. Clickers, Poll Everywhere and Google Moderator are some of the technologies that will be used.
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 | The Social Network: Social Media Panel Discussion Social media isn’t just for socializing – learn how you can put social media to good use in your career and in your job search. In this panel discussion, we will review: trends in social media, socialnomics, building personal brand and online presence, and building career opportunities through networking.
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 | Geeking With Google Apps In this session, attendees will be introduced to Google Apps services and tools as well as receive some exciting tips, tricks, and highlights for using Google resources for collaborating, publishing, and managing your digital lifestyle through "cloud" computing.
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 | Harnessing the Power of Microsoft Office Live Meeting Eliminate Travel Barriers and Increase Employee/Student Participation in Real Time! Explore how to keep your students or attendees engaged using integrated audio, video, and media while hosting an online “Live Meeting’ in real time. The power of Microsoft Office Live Meeting is that meeting attendees can deliver a presentation, brainstorm ideas, edit files, collaborate on whiteboards, or demonstrate assignments from any computer without the hassle of traveling and meeting in person. In addition, multiple communication options are offered, including live and recorded video, chat, slide and application sharing, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) audio, and audience feedback tools. Moreover, you can use Live Meeting to record, store and play back entire meeting or presentation for those who were not able to attend!
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 | Using Technology to Change the World This session will discuss how technology is being used to change the world. Examples are drawn from Imagine Cup, the premier technology student competition in the world today, and various projects underway at Microsoft Research. You will see how technology is being used to impact difficult world problems such as child mortality, environmental sustainability, and women’s rights.
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| Think Outside the LMS: Using Google Apps for Student Interactivity, Collaboration and More! In this session, attendees and educators will be introduced to Google Apps services and tools, as well as receive some exciting tips, tricks, and highlights for using Google resources for collaborating, publishing, and enhancing the teaching and learning environment through "cloud" computing. Come and share the experiences of faculty members as they demonstrate their uses of Google Apps to provide new learning, assessment, and collaboration options for their students and helpful tools for themselves.
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 | Give Your Students a Front Row Seat with Custom Online Video Imagine a situation where every student in your class has a front row seat, can see and hear you clearly, and can view every bit of the action taking place. What a great way to learn! By embedding custom video clips in your course website, you can provide all of your students with this type of authentic eLearning experience. And as our faculty members demonstrate, it can be a very satisfying way to make your course unique, engaging, and effective. Come join us and explore the possibilities of using a similar approach to enliven and enhance your classes.
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 | The Value of Undergraduate Research: For Students by Students Undergraduate research allows students to help researchers with their projects and gives students within the Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics (STEM) fields hands-on experience while making a global impact. We will discuss how Undergraduate Research helps students become highly competitive when they transfer to four-year institutions. Students are highly encouraged to attend this session!
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 | Microsoft Office Web Apps Working On Your Microsoft Office Documents Without Microsoft Office Applications! Microsoft Office Web Apps are online companions to Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, giving you the ability to process Office documents with a browser. Integrated with the latest collaboration technology, Office Web Apps further enable users to work on Office documents without a locally installed instance of Office 2010. In this session we will begin with an overview of the Office Web technology followed by user scenarios including sharing and co-authoring. Attendees will learn and can get online and try immediately to create, edit, and share Office documents without a locally installed instance of Office 2010.
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 | Panopto Lecture Capture A pilot of lecture capture software has been underway at CPCC. This technology could allow for multiple components of lectures to be recorded live in class or from any computer on campus or off. The end result is a ‘rich-media’ output that students can use to listen to their instructors, watch PowerPoint presentations, and see in real-time everything that has taken place on the computer. Concluding the pilot of Panopto Coursecast Core Lecture Capture software, faculty and staff are now using this technology in exciting new ways. Attend this session to learn how Panopto can record multiple components of a lesson and seamlessly share it online. See what sets this technology apart and learn how you can begin to use this valuable instructional tool.
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 | Top 10 Things Your Parents Told You That Still Apply to Social Media This session will introduce attendees with relevant and thoughtful best practices practices for social media and online networking through the feature the work of Iggy Pintado, a renowned Social Media / Business networking expert and author of "Connection Generation." Iggy resides in Syndey, Australia and as a “super-connected” networker on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, has earned his place in the Top 25 list of the most connected business networkers in Australia.
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 | Mobile Applications Attend this discussion and demonstration on how apps for the iPad, iPhone, Blackberry and Android devices can help in the classroom and with general productivity. Share what you already use and find out what else is out there. Some specific apps we will discuss are Evernote, Dropbox and Instapaper.
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