Enjoy the second edition of the Colleague2Colleague digital magazine. C2C is an all-volunteer organization with a goal of sharing technology expertise, resources, and training emphasizing distance education and instruction in higher education. 

This issue has contributions from across our region, with expertise about exciting technologies on member campuses. In this edition, you have an opportunity to learn about NVivo, OneNote, Google Glass, open education resources, Course Networking, a blog ePortfolio, Mediasite, and more. Do your students have “grit”? Do You? Learn more about grit in the article entitled, “Online Students Show Grit”.

Meet the C2C 2014 award winners for Innovation in Teaching and Outstanding Technical Support Staff, and the Jonathan Bacon Outstanding Leadership awardee.

We hope you like the Scalar platform used to build this digital magazine with images, links, and videos that enhance each article. Please consider submitting an article for the spring 2015 edition. The submission process is provided in http://scalar.usc.edu/works/c2c-lantern-fall-winter-2014/call-for-submissions .

Join us for the 2015 SIDLIT on July 30, 31 at Johnson County Community College. The C2C steering committee is working on a theme and a keynote speaker for next year's SIDLIT conference. Feel free to send thoughts about SIDLIT or C2C to me or any steering committee member (http://blogs.jccc.edu/c2c/about/committee/).

Thanks to all of the authors for their contributions, and Shalin Hai-Jew, Sarah Silva, and Rebecca Gould for their hard work on this edition of the digital magazine. Here’s to a great end of the semester.

Vincent Miller
C2C 2014-2015 Chair

Director, Educational Technology Center

Johnson County Community College

vmiller4@jccc.edu