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DL Leadership Team
Xeturah Woodley
Director
Brian Ditmer
Distance Learning Specialist
Rafael Martinez
Distance Learning Specialist
Contact Information:
Distance Learning Dept.
525 Buena Vista SE
Albuquerque, NM 87106
(505) 224-3317 – office
(505) 224–3321 – fax
CNM's
Distance Learning Site
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What's Happening
The CNM
Distance Learning Department has submitted the college’s application for an
accreditation status change to allow us to offer additional online degrees.
Currently, the college is only accredited to offer one degree online,
Associate of Arts in Business Administration. The HLC is reviewing the
application and will make a final determination of the status change in
late-August.
Announcements
We are working
on the Student Drop-In Labs schedule for the FALL Term. Stay tuned for
our August Newsletter for the time and place of the Labs.
BbWorld 07
The BlackBoard World 2007 Conference is open for
Registration!
BbWorld 07 will
be the 1st combined Users Conference in North America for Blackboard and
former WebCT clients. Last year BbWorld and WebCT Conference hosted
more than 2,500 education professionals sharing innovative ideas and best
practices. This year the event will be the 1st one for the combined
community.
Click on the BbWorld 07 title
above if you would like to know more about the conference.
What: BbWorld 07
When: July 10-12 2007
Where: Boston, Massachusetts
Venue: Hynes Convention Center
BRIAN'S CORNER
Dear DL and Hybrid Courses Faculty,
This is an early reminder of the steps
you need to take to assure a smooth transition into the Fall 2007 term.
Beginning with this next term, ALL course shells will
be hosted on CE6, so if you haven’t gotten yourself familiar with the system
now is the time to begin. It’s different, but a lot more user-friendly.
Here are the steps to properly arrange
your course shell at the end of each term. As a reminder, I will send this
message out via email in the next few weeks.
1. As soon as your class is over or by August 6th
back up your WebCT and/or Blackboard courses. Make sure you download the
backups. You are only allowed one backup to reside in the queue, but you
can download one, delete the one present in the queue and make another if
you desire.
2. Make sure that your course will
be available for self-registration by 8:00 AM on the day your class begins
(Manage Course/Settings/User Manager/ Set Value True - to
allow users to register themselves as a Student in a section).
The Blackboard access policy: All
courses must be open for self registration, unless otherwise stated, on the
first day of the term the course starts at 8am. Please note that if a course
is not open for self registration, it either must be populated by 8am on the
first day of that class, or a username and password must be sent to all
students in the course so that they may add themselves to the course.
A note about multiple user accounts: In
WebCT, many of you were used to creating a secondary account in order to
view the course shell as student does. This is no longer necessary in
Blackboard since we now have this great tab called “student view.” With
that tab, we can now see the course shell exactly as the student does,
we can take the quizzes and assessments as the student does and we can
perform every other student function. So if you have created a secondary
user account in Blackboard please let us know so we can coordinate the
user names more efficiently.
Thank You
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Student
Spotlight
JoAnn Simpson
Business Management and Accounting student
JoAnn Simpson is
an honor student who has taken more that twenty (20) Distance Learning
classes at CNM. She tells us that the Distance Learning Department has
contributed to her success at CNM.
Here are a few
answers JoAnn provided us in her interview. Make sure you click on the
link below to read the rest of the interview.
Question: How did you first learn about Distance Learning
at CNM?
Answer:
In the CNM
schedule of classes and then I went to the advising and counseling
department at CNM for more information.
Question:
What have been
the most valuable aspects of your Distance Learning experience?
Answer:
I can take my time with
the class. I know ahead of time that I have an assignment due but I can work
on it for an hour and take a break. With the lectures on video, I can pause
and rewind when I need to. I can watch it however many times I need to. I
can submit an assignment as soon as I have it done, even if it is 1am. My
schedule is a lot more flexible with Distance Learning.
JoAnn Simpson's Complete Interview
Images from the DL Celebration
Days! at Main and JMMC
We celebrated the
growth we have experienced in DL. The events ocurred this past June 26 (Main) & June 27 (JMMC).
We met with both students and faculty and the cake sold quickly because the
price was right! Check out the images (click on the thumbnails to see
the full image).
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At Main Campus, Instructors Stephanie Umpleby (far left) and Kate Hovey (far right) joined Xeturah, Brian, and Rafael for some cake.
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Rafael shows Brian his cake serving technique. The instructors are probably thinking "Do these guys know what they are doing?"
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Math instructor Stephanie Umpleby turned out to be a satisfied customer.
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at Main several students stopped by to get a FALL DL class schedule and have some cake.
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For some reason, the cake at JMMC went out quickly. We had our display in the Commons Area.
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ECA Instructor Linda Clay stopped by at JMMC. By then, Brian and Rafael were expert cake cutters.
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Xeturah completes the transaction with a satisfied customer. After all the price was right!
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