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Ocotillo Retreat
May 16-17, 2000
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Explore the Agenda for details on activities and session descriptions. The site location offers photos and maps. Participate in the online dicsussion. Look for photos after the event. Write your session reviews in the travelogue. Look at what colleagues consider the best of the best web sites. Participating vendors are our friends.com

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DESTINATION: MARICOPA!

The retreat is over, but there are still things to see here. Check out the evaluation comments and the list of available presentation files.

We have kept it home this year. Yes, Ocotillo Retreat 2000 will be held at two of our sister colleges: Tuesday, May 16 at Estrella Mountain Community College (EMCC) and Wednesday, May 17 at Mesa Community College (MCC).

You and more than 240 Maricopans, including students, staff, and faculty will experience a full technology agenda at both colleges, including showcases, demonstrations, presentations, and discussions on a broad range of technology uses and issues.

Be ready to take in an open room full of technology showcases that include:

  • Student technology projects, including a student designed hydrogen engine
  • Maricopa Recruiter
  • Virtual Reality Technology
  • DVD video review of Technology at SCC
  • Students and WebCT
  • E-Commerce at PVCC
  • Arizona@Australia
  • GED Preparation Online
  • Using the Web to Support Writing in ESL Classes
  • Web courseware feature reviews
Breakout discussions led by your colleagues will cover topics such as:
  • Researching digital resources
  • Microsoft licensing issues
  • Student support solutions
  • Faculty support for web development
  • Glendale's Instructional Palette
  • Mesa's "myMCC" web portal
  • Online student course evaluations
  • Online and "Hybrid" Web Courses at CGCC
  • MCC Student Technology Assistant program
  • Help Desk issues
We will have day-long demonstrations by Academic Systems, Anlon Systems, Blackboard, Coursemetric, Lippincott, McGraw-Hill, Prentice-Hall and WebCT.

Look also for dynamic discussion sessions on issues such as Technology Hybrids / Social Aspects & Computing Spaces and District Strategic Planning. Special lunch speakers will present the perspectives of the founders of companies that provide web technolgies currently in use at Maricopa.

What more is there to say about Ocotillo 2000. It promises to be one our best retreats ever. Come see for yourself. See you at Estrella Mountain and Mesa Community Colleges!

Manny Griego
Ocotillo Faculty Chair		 Alan Levine
Ocotillo Support