• How does texting in classroom change pedagogy?
• How much of technological consumption is passive versus active? How does that change how students engage?
• Should there be questions about the infallibility of the databases we expect our students to use?
• Students need to know how to make a basic MLA paper template.
• They also need to know how to backup their work. Where is that taught?
• Should the MLA template be submitted and assessed? (This is a great idea)
• What about accessibility issues?
• Students need to know what a URL is!
• There needs to be a logic to file naming for both professor and student.

Here are William’s notes…

• How to bridge gaps between the two required composition courses here at BCC.
• How to deal with differences between hypothesis and thesis?
• How to deal with creative students versus those who need more formal training?
• Differences between peer review via wikis versus Google Drive.
• Reader versus writer based feedback.
• Peer review speed dating.
• Class size is a concern for face to face versus digital peer review.
• Bias versus agenda in secondary sources.
• How do we teach what is RIGHT about a source?

How can we help students who sign up for distance education classes succeed when they have low technology skills?

8am-930am Checking in and session voting
930am-10am Schedule Elves Will…Schedule
10am-1120am Session 1
1130am-1pm Lunch
1pm-220pm Session 2
230pm-350pm Session 3
Done!

What are the most important technological skills that a community college student needs to know? This session will further explore this issue and how it relate to community college teaching.

What I would like to propose is a workshop on backing up your Google Drive. Google has a very high level of backups on their end, but we should not only rely on them. I would like to show a few of the options for keeping an offsite copy of your drive.

How can we make better connections between CCs and high schools?

You may register for ThatCamp Community College by clicking here and filling out the brief form. We should be able to turn around approvals of registrants pretty quickly. We are busy planning for this upcoming ThatCamp and will have more news as the month goes. Stay tuned to this weblog for more information.

That Camp Community College is an unconference. What is an unconference? An unconference is run and driven by those attending the meeting. Since 2009, ThatCamps around the world have popularized the unconference (even more mainstreram organizations like the NJEA are embracing the unconference). An unconference should do the following:

• The schedule for the day with be determined by those attending on the day of the event
• Anyone attending can propose a session
• Anyone can lead a session, which will be much more conversational than the traditional conference panel
• Attendees may come and go as they feel. If an attendee does not like a session they may freely move to another

As of now, it looks like we will have at least six slots for sessions plus three for workshops. As March goes on, these details will be narrowed down a bit more. Stay tuned.

We can officially announce ThatCamp Community College will be taking place at the Briggs Road Center on the campus of Burlington County College in Mount Laurel NJ on March 29th, 2014. Stay tuned for more information. For now follow us on Twitter @thatcampcc