Karen Cox received first place in the California Virtual Campus Awards Program for her online course in advanced English composition. She teaches at City College of San Francisco and is a new online instructor.
She was interviewed by Dan Barnett at the Online Teaching Conference at Ohlone College on June 11, 2007.
Lisa Harrison received second place in the California Virtual Campus Awards Program for her course in lifespan development which she teaches at City College of San Francisco.
Harrison was interviewed by Dan Barnett on June 11, 2007 at the Online Teaching Conference in Fremont.
Patricia Delich (pdelich@elearningnetworks.com) is a master of online course design at the City College of San Francisco. The two faculty (Karen Cox and Lisa Harrison) who received awards for outstanding online courses at the 2007 Online Teaching Conference at Ohlone College worked with Patricia and adopted her "less is more" approach to design.
Delich was interviewed by Dan Barnett on June 11, 2007.
Michelle Pilati teaches psychology online and face-to-face at Rio Hondo College. She has most recently developed an online "biological psychology" course.
Pilati was interviewed by Dan Barnett on June 11, 2007.
Blaine Morrow directs two significant projects for the California Community College Chancellor's Office.
The first, CCCConfer (http://www.cccconfer.org), is a free service that makes setting up virtual office hours a snap, even for face-to-face faculty. The second project, 3C Media (http://www.3cmediasolutions.org, launching July 1, 2007), will eventually provide educational video on demand.
Morrow was interviewed by Dan Barnett on June 11, 2007, at the Online Teaching Conference in Fremont.
Donna Eyestone is the "podcast evangelist" for the California Virtual Campus project and provides extensive training for faculty who want to learn about and use podcasting. A self-paced podcasting course is available through @ONE (http://www.cccone.org) and she also offers a facilitated workshop in podcast development.
Eyestone was interviewed by Dan Barnett on June 12, 2007.
Butte College also offers workshops and hands-on training in podcasting through our Technology Training Center and Jerry Garcia (GarciaJe@butte.edu). We are an iTunes U school and Jerry can show how podcasts can be made available to students not only within Blackboard but in a subscription format on iTunes as well.
Pat James is Interim Dean of Academic Success and Technology at Mt. San Jacinto College. As an online instructor she chaired the State Academic Senate Technology Committee and is now working with @ONE (http://www.cccone.org) to develop faculty training in online skills.
She was interviewed by Dan Barnett on June 11, 2007 at the Online Teaching Conference in Fremont.
Barbara Illowsky teaches statistics online at DeAnza College and has developed a rubric for grading required discussion postings. Feel free to use and adapt the rubric, which is a available at
http://facultyfiles.deanza.edu/gems/illowskybarbara/GradingRubricEVC.doc
(the file will open as a Word document).
Illowsky was interviewed by Dan Barnett on June 12, 2007.
Ken Nather is a Specialist in Academic Planning and Development with the California Community College's Chancellor's Office. He oversees distance education at the System level and recently completed an 11-year overview of the growth of distance education. His presentation at the 2007 Online Teaching Conference at Ohlone College in Fremont was called "The View From 35,000 Feet."
Nather was interviewed by Dan Barnett; recorded June 11, 2007.
