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February 14, 2013!

ITDE Dissertation Cafe���Title V-B Champions Meeting!

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Purpose���

✤  Repository for resources!

✤  Place to meet with faculty and classmates, formally and informally!

✤  Reduce isolation!

✤  Improve the research and dissertation experience for students!

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Cafe Home Page���Clean, straightforward layout!

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Cafe elements���Let’s look at each, in turn!

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Announcements���In the cafe, in the concentration, in the fields!

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Faculty contact information���

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Drips���All ITDE students will have access!

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Puddles���Research communities!

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Calendar���Events in the cafe, in the fields.!

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Elluminate sessions���Seminars, group meetings, guest speakers, and faculty office hours!

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Blogs���Maintained by faculty!

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Carafe���Cafe content!

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Videos���Multiple categories!

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Researcher’s Bookshelf���One for instructional technology, another for distance education!

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ITDE dissertations���Abstract, link to dissertation, student’s reflections on the process!

Research communities���directed by program professors!

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Journals���with links to journal websites!

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Research Resources���Things that don’t fit the other categories!

Conferences���with discussion areas!

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