Kicking off August: COLTT

So as I expected, August was super busy with preparing courses for fall and holding professional development events for faculty. In addition, I was lucky enough to attend my first ever Colorado Learning & Teaching with Technology Conference (COLTT) conference  at the University of Colorado - Boulder. This was a very busy conference in a beautiful venue, with a very low cost to boot. Some of the highlights of sessions I attended include the University of the Rockies study showing that students performed over 7% better on assignments in Quality Matters certified courses; an excellent refresher in using Adobe Photoshop led by Scott Trudeau, and playing a game led by some very courageous students and instructor David Thomas, where we participants learned just how hard it is to figure out how to work out an equitable college budget. If you are interested, here is a link to this year's event COLTT 2014.