FEBRUARY 9-23, 2009
  "Award-winning Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Online Instruction"
   24/7

This seminar is for the experienced online teacher.  It will feature successful teaching strategies and demos that
award-winning instructors have found to be their best practices.

Examples of strategies to be presented include:
        Ideas for going outside the restrictions of CMS
        Tools for student-centered instruction
        Ideas for linking classes worldwide
        Creating content that is not just content driven
        Social networking/community building mechanisms
        Rubrics for good student assignments

Presenters Include:

Curtis J. Bonk - Dr. Bonk has received the Most Outstanding Achievement Award from the U.S. Distance Learning Association, and the Most Innovative Teaching in Distance Education Program Award from the State of Indiana.  He is author of over 100 publications.

Terry Morris - Terry Morris is an Associate Professor at William Rainey Harper College. She has taught web development, e-commerce, programming, database, and instructional technology courses. Terry has also developed and taught professional development workshops for the faculty at Harper College.

Deepa Godambe - Dr. Godambe is the winner of the Glenn Reich Award for the effective use of technology in Teaching and Learning.  She is known nationally as a pioneer in the blended course delivery method.

Professor Peter J. Shea - Dr. Shea is with the Department of Educational Theory and Practice Department of Informatics at the State University of New York-Albany.  he is a recipient of several awards including the EDUCAUSE Award for Systemic Progress in Teaching and Learning and the Sloan Consortium Award for Excellence in Faculty Development.  Dr. Shea is also co-author of "The Successful Distance Learning Student."

Alexandra M. Pickett - Under her leadership in 2001 SLN was honored to receive the first Sloan Consortium Award for Excellence in ALN Faculty Development, and the Educause award for Progress in Teaching and Learning.  Most recently SLN was honored with the 2006 USDLA 21st Century Award for Best Practices in Distance Learning.