MPICT Director James Jones and MPICT Regional Partner/Santa Rosa Junior College Instructor Michael McKeever show ICT faculty members how to use incredibly powerful online collaboration tools to improve ICT teaching and learning. These resources are free in California and affordable everywhere, and you will gain hands-on experience with them in this lab session.

Learn how to use CCC Confer (and similar tools like Elluminate, Adobe Connect, WebEx and Wimba) to improve student, department and faculty experiences and outcomes. Increase course enrollments and make under-enrolled and more advanced and specialized courses go. Connect more conveniently and better with students using interactive online office hours. Conduct webinars. Make learning experiences more engaging and dynamic. Integrate remote access to lab equipment into interactive online courses. Bring remote guest lectures into the classroom. Serve dual enrollment high school students without anyone having to leave their desks. Have effective academic department meetings from home... This and more is available free to California community colleges and at reasonable rates for all. Learn how in this interactive demonstration session.

James Jones, Director, MPICT
Rick Graziani, Instructor, Cabrillo College, Santa Cruz, CA