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Professional Development

PTRC sponsors conferences, lunch discussions, and special events about technology integration across the curriculum. Check out the events archive to read proceedings of past events.

PTRC is dedicated to providing faculty members with the professional development and support they need to integrate technology into their teaching. If you have an idea for a workshop you would like us to offer, please write to us at ptrc@simmons.edu or call 617-521-2736.

Recent Events:

JumpStart (May 24-25, 2004)
The theme for this year's two-day JumpStart event is "Community and Diversity." The keynote speech by award-winning authors Rena Palloff and Keith Pratt is "Supporting Learning Communities Online."

New England ePortfolio Summit (June 2, 2004)
Higher education institutions are increasingly turning to ePortfolios.  Their use is varied and wide-ranging: from large-scale, aggregate assessment to one-on-one collaboration between students and faculty.  Given this context, the time is right for a regional gathering in which interested parties coalesce and plan for the future.

Guiding questions for the event include:

• What have we learned so far about ePortfolios (through experience, serendipity, careful planning, etc.)?
• Where are we now?  What can we learn by sharing our current use scenarios?
• Where are we going? What are the opportunities for strategic planning, collaboration, resource sharing, etc.?