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SoftChalk eNewsletter |
October 2009
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Fall SoftChalk Savings
SoftChalk has just announced its Fall promotion! The promotion features an amazing deal with specially priced licenses. Call 877.638.2425 ext 105 for details! |
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The SoftChalk Lesson Challenge is Happening Again
Our first SoftChalk Lesson Challenge was such a great success, we've decided to do another! The Lesson Challenge for 2010 will have a few exciting changes.
There will be 4 categories (the winner of each category will receive a $500 award!):
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Best K-12 lesson
- Best Higher Education lesson
- Best Corporate Lesson (new!)
- Best Course in any category (new!)
Stay tuned for more details and in the meantime get inspired by checking out the 2009 award winning lessons. |
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Innovator Vignette Highlight
Our Innovators in Online Learning presentations are so popular that we decided to give you quick look at what all the excitement is about. These short presentations might inspire you to check out the full archived sessions on our site.
Each month we will highlight one of these 5 minute presentations. This month Stephen Holland of Muscatine Community College describes how he uses SoftChalk features such as links, sidebars, text poppers, and activities to enable students to move through the lessons the way they want - and still comprehend the key points.
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October Innovator Webinar Series
This series highlights guest speakers from leading educational institutions who are using SoftChalk in innovative ways.
Create Content that Meets Quality Matters Standards for Online Courses
Sharon Rifkin, District Director e-Learning Programs/Faculty, Broward College, Florida
Samita Ghoshal, Instructional Designer/Faculty, Lone Star College, Texas
Sharon and Samita will be showing how SoftChalk provides the unique opportunity to build rich, interactive content material in compliance with Quality Matters (QM) Standards. Using SoftChalk, the QM rubric can be applied to meet the required standards easily and effectively.
Thursday, October 22, 2009 / 11am PT | 12pm MT | 1pm CT | 2pm ET
Click here to Learn More or to Register. |
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Fall Education Technology Conferences
The SoftChalk team will be traveling to conferences this Fall and we would love to see you.
Stop by our booth at the following conferences:
League CIT (booth #209) October 11-14 Detroit, MI
ESC XI Distance Learning (Table #8) October 14 Fort Worth, TX
TBUG October 14-16 Nacogdoches, TX
SLATE October 15 - 16, Chicago, IL
Northwest eLearning Conference October 29-30 Meridian, ID
Virginia Educational Technology Conference October 28-30 Richmond, VA
Sloan-C (booth #512) October 28-30, 2009 Orlando FL
Educause (booth #851&853) November 3-6 Denver, CO
Learning 2009 November 8 - 11 Orlando, FL
ASTD- TCC November 12 St. Paul, MN
iNACOL VSS (booth #25) November 15 - 17 Austin, TX
BACC- American Association of Colleges of Nursing November 19-21 Chicago, IL
VSTE November 30 - December 2 Roanoke, VA |
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Where to Learn More
Introductory Webinars
These 45 minute presentations introduce the key features of SoftChalk LessonBuilder. We will view example lessons, and then demonstrate how the lesson content was created using SoftChalk LessonBuilder. The session ends with a question and answer period. For more information or to register go to http://www.softchalk.com/webinar/.
Short Courses
SoftChalk is now offering online training sessions to everyone for FREE! Each Short Course is a live 1-hour training session conducted by a SoftChalk instructor using web conferencing. The course includes a presentation and examples, as well as, an opportunity to ask questions and receive assistance from the instructor. For more information or to register go to http://www.softchalk.com/training/.
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