"You do terrific presentations and yes, I walked away with ideas, inspiration and enthusiasm."
Herb Hilderley
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman
Paxen Group Board of Directors
May 25, 2009
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"You are truly amazing!!
Thank you for your energetic & inspiring presentations. You will be remembered long in our students' mind.
Hope to see you next year in Seoul again."
Myunghee Ju Kang, Chair
Educational Technology Department
Ewha Womans University
Seoul, Korea
May 20, 2009
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"THANK YOU for your trip to Greenville, and the personal time you spent with me this morning. You put on two fabulous presentations with lots of energy and knowledge, and it was very motivating as well as informative. I can only wonder at the positive long-term effects that this will have on the future of online learning here at Greenville College. Again, thank you!"
Greg Sanders
Sociology Professor
Greenville College
April 30, 2009
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"I want you to know how much I appreciated your two talks at the School of Public Health this week. I can say it has renewed my interest in updating my medical school lectures."
Charles W. Beasley, Ph.D., DABMP, DABSNM
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Department of Diagnostic & Interventional Imaging
The University of Texas Medical School at Houston
February 20, 2009
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"I wanted to send along a note of appreciation for the fantastic set of sessions you provided us last Friday. You are certainly in the right field and are an excellent presenter. You gave some terrific ideas, and I'm looking forward to trying many of them. I've ordered your book and know it will be very helpful."
Gail Petersen
Gail Petersen & Associates
Visiting Professor, Thunderbird School of Global Management.
February 14, 2009
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"I am writing in regards to your recent presentations last week at the Dubai Men's College here in the UAE. I attended your Blended Learning & The World is Open and wanted to thank you for making the trip and let you know that I was really inspired by this wonderful event. I have instructed thousands of online/on-ground students and am very interested in what you are doing along these lines."
Philip West, MBA, MS
Faculty, Business Department
Abu Dhabi Men's College
Abu Dhabi, UAE
February 3, 2009
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"Now that the conference is over, I wanted to take just a minute to thank you for your wonderful contributions to a great event. Although I have not seen all the evaluation data, I think that your forum was very successful. Your participation in the forum is one reason it was so well received. I enjoyed your enthusiasm and felt that the audience got what they came for."
Shauna Schullo, Ph.D
Director, Distance Education Certificate Program
University of Wisconsin Madison
August 21, 2008
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"I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation on technology trends in education in Madison, although I was disappointed to not have received any stuffed animals or money. I'll try harder next year. I also enjoyed the presentation you made with Professor Siemens enjoyable and found your enthusiasm for Web 2.0 inspiring."
William F. Ritke-Jones, Ph.D.
CyberMations Consulting Group, Boston, MA
August 15, 2008
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"Thank you for your participation on our Web 2.0 forum. You and George Siemens were very enlightening and entertaining! I learned a lot and am sure the audience did as well. Thank you again."
Pam Scheibel
Clinical Professor
School of Nursing
University of Wisconsin
August 11, 2008
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"It was an amazing privilege to feature you as our primary plenary speaker during the 6th National Workshop for Accelerated Programs in Higher Education, Accelerated Online and Blended Learning, July 22-23, 2008, at the Doubletree Hotel Denver North. You helped create a special 'buzz’ around the workshop, and helped us attract members who hadn’t participated in a while. Most importantly, you provided an energetic venue for us to gather and discuss innovation in accelerated online education, which was a tremendous help to us.
The survey results indicate that this workshop was a very successful event. In particular, your small group session entitled,'Best Practices of Blended Learning: Situations, Solutions, and Several Surprises,' earned top reviews, where 97% of respondents rated you as a facilitator 'good’ or 'excellent.’ Your other sessions also received high marks in terms of content and delivery. Congratulations!
I wanted to also share some of the comments we received from your sessions:
'Dr. Bonk brought so many technological ideas that were really innovative. It made for a very interesting conference!'
'Very timely and relevant. Dr. Bonk was fabulous!'
'Terrific keynote speaker. Tons of great information!'
'Tremendous volume of information - Dr. Bonk is very knowledgeable and has a wealth of information to share.'
'Excellent overview of resources available, lively, informative, entertaining.'
'Excellent presenter and information.'
'Super job. I’ll use the video and purchase the book; my university will benefit.'
'Very useful information! Many helpful take-away ideas! The overall content was excellent.'
On behalf of the entire CAP organization, I would like to extend you our most gracious 'thank you.’ It is my hope that you will accept an invitation back to a future CAP event, where we can continue our conversation about how we can continue to innovate our world campus."
Jeannie Lana McCarron, MNM
Director, Commission for Accelerated Programs (CAP)
Regis University College for Professional Studies
August 07, 2008
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"I attended the CAP conference in Denver last week and listened to your talks. Excellent job. Thank you for sharing your information with us."
Robert J. Dougherty, MLS
IT Director/Adjunct Instructor
College of Liberal Studies
The University of Oklahoma
July 27, 2008
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"Thanks so much for the wonderful workshop. I heard many great comments about your presentations. Besides your presentations, I was very impressed that you attended some of the small group sessions on Tuesday. Typically our plenary speakers leave as soon as they are done. I'm sure others appreciated you participating in the small groups."
Cindi Lombard
Regis University
Administrative Coordinator, Events and Member Services
Commission for Accelerated Programs (CAP)
July 25, 2008
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"We are extremely pleased with the responses we've had to the BLEND Institute. Some of the
folks who attended never even thought of themselves as technology users - now they are starting
to think about how they might apply IT in their classes. Your three talks have generated
fascinating conversations among faculty over lunch and during break. The topics you covered, especially with
regard to pedagogy and technology, are exactly what we needed and have been received extremely
well. People were very glad to have met you too. Again, thank you so much for coming to FPU."
Henrietta Siemens, Ph.D.
Director, TESOL Program
School of Education
FRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
May 10, 2008
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"WOW! Talk about fast responses! I have been spending a great deal of time this afternoon on your
website and I am even more impressed that I was before. I must tell you that after attending
your keynote address, I altered my own vision of what I was capable of doing online. After
completing my degree through Ivy Tech and Franklin University, I went on to earn my MLIS from the
University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee (entirely by distance). I remembered so much of what you had said during
your keynote address back then, that combined with my own experience as an online student, I try
to incorporate as many innovations as I can into my courses, and so far my students seem to really
appreciate it. You do
wonderful work and are a great inspiration."
Linda Terrell, MLIS
Learning Center Coordinator
College Cooperative Southeast
Scott County Lifelong Learning Center
March 6, 2008
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"I attended your presentation yesterday. It's very inspiring and interesting. You've been doing
cutting-edge research."
Carol Cheng
Doctoral Student
Purdue University
November 30, 2007
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"I wanted to drop a quick thank you note before going home. The talk was GREAT! Students were saying you are such a prolific scholar and your 20+ years research certainly motivated all of us here! Thank you so much!"
Minchi C. Kim, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Educational Technology
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Purdue University
Thursday November 29, 2007
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"Hello Professor Bonk... Please find attached a few pics of what I found to be amazingly refreshing and inspiring keynote presentation."
Ana Marinescu
Concordia University
2008 JMSB MBA Candidate
President, Women in Business Club
Organizer, 2008 John Molson MBA International Case Competition
May 16, 2007
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"This day is ratting away at full steam and I didn't want it to end without (at least) an attempt from me to thank you for your attendance at Connections last week. This was our fifth year, but was our first with an imported guest and I was (we were) delighted. You provided a context for the conference activities that we couldn't; you legitimized a lot of people's work without even realizing it; you gave credence to much of our work in e-Learning Services. You sent out clear messages to whoever was listening- about collaboration, about sharing, about open source tools, about quality, and about teaching and learning. And you handed out a damn fine rubber chicken. The truth is you've got a special skill and warmth and method, and people connect to it (easily). Thanks again."
Andrew Connery
e-Learning Development, Education, & LMS Administration
Centre for Teaching, Learning & Research- Mohawk College
http://spin.mohawkcollege.ca/ac
May 7, 2007
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"I really enjoyed your presentations at Teaching and Learning with Technology at Purdue University on Tuesday. I found them stimulating, informative, motivating, and especially entertaining. I went home and went right to the computer to evaluate my classes and to see how I could improve them."
Sharon Stoten, MSN, RN,LNC,OTC, CNA , BC
Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Environments for Health at IUPUI
April 26, 2007
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"Many people have stopped me in the corridors to say how much they enjoyed your talk. I have had a few emails as well, and interest in Podcasting has just taken off. All thanks to your brilliant presentation."
Dr. Andy Syson
Deputy Director, e-learning Unit
Coventry University
January 22, 2007
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"The address is perfect. Yes it ended very well. Thanks once again! The feedback for your sessions has been very positive and for all the sessions. Your sessions set a wonderful tone for the conference and reinforced much of what we in e-Learning Services have been promoting."
Pat Anderchek
Faculty Liaison e-Learning
Centre for Teaching, Learning and Research
May 4, 2007
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"I can't thank you enough for your outstanding contributions to our WiAOC conference.
Feedback on your presentations suggests that participants were unanimously impressed by their high quality,
and appreciative especially that you would take time to interact with them in two such sessions,
and share with them substantial ancillary materials besides.
Your contributions significantly enhanced the success of the three-day event,
and we applaud your open source and open minded attitudes that coincided
so productively with those of the organizers and participants. Thanks again."
Vance Stevens
Webheads in Action Online Convergence Coordinator
December 5, 2005
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"I can't tell you how much I enjoyed your sessions at TLT (at Purdue
University) this week. They were infinitely beneficial to me in a
technology support role, and they will help me provide insightful
assistance to our teachers during development and implementation of some
initiatives to integrate technology in our classrooms."
Daniel J. Schmeltz
District Technology Facilitator
John Glenn Schools, Indiana
April 6, 2007
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"I really enjoyed your presentations at Teaching and Learning with Technology at Purdue University on Tuesday. I found them informative, motivating, and entertaining."
Eugenia Fernandez
Associate Professor
Computer & Information Technology
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
April 5, 2007
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"Curt generated many ideas for us as we look to infuse blended learning for both students and staff. I simply had no idea of its potential until I met Curt."
John Carey
Saudi Aramco
March 10, 2007
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"It was an honor and privilege to work with you and enjoy your outstanding presentations and informal discussions. Over the last couple of days I have received numerous testimonials praising the Forum and mentioning your great contribution in particular."
Dr. Ahmad A. Ajarimah
HRD Consultant, Training and Career Development
Saudi Aramco
March 4, 2007
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"Just to share with you my delight at having been fortunate enough to partake in your presentations at Saudi Aramco's TEC last Wednesday. They were most enlightening."
Yacine Rachi
English Coordinator, Saudi Aramco
March 3, 2007
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"Thank you very much for the great presentation in ARAMCO 28-Feb-2007. Your Presentations gave direction to what I understand about blended learning. I teach Architecture @ KFUPM and as well contribute through my Multimedia skills for e-learning center. Your Blended Solutions will come a long way to my work and teaching. Thanking you once again"
Mazharuddin Syed Ahmed
Multimedia Specialist
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), KSA
February 28, 2007
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"Curtis; thank you so very much for allowing me to record and podcast your plenary sessions for our Teaching and Technology conference here in St. Louis last week ... And thank you, too, for your animated entertaining and informative presentations - you really made the entire conference a success."
Paul Wilmarth
Faculty Resource Center
University of Missouri-St. Louis
November 7th, 2006
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"As I said, all three of your sessions were very interesting and FULL of information. You opened my eyes a lot."
Jing Yang
Instructional Technology Specialist
Academic Computing & Instructional Technology
Maryville University , St. Louis
November 6th, 2006
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"I have to say that Curtis has unbounded energy. He did over 100 talks last year as well as editing a book and teaching. This time it was called 'Podcasts and Wikis and Blogs, Oh My: Online Learning is Not in Kansas Anymore'. We had some great comedy with Bush jokes, air guitar, wigs and audience participation. Once again we were off in a whirlwind tour of some of the newer trends in technology and learning."
"I thoroughly enjoyed meeting you in person. Your energy is amazing. Keep it up."
"You were truly amazing at the TLt conference. I saw Bill
Clinton speak a couple of month ago and you were almost as inspiring."
Heather M. Ross
Educational Communications and Technology
College of Education
University of Saskatchewan
April 12, 2006
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"Traveling did not diminish your energy level because that was commented on by many in the evaluations. We were so pleased with all the flattering comments we received that we wanted to share with you."
- "Curt Bonk! Hilarious! Informative! Inspirational Ideas."
- "All of the possibilities Curtis Bonk shared were amazing. I look forward to researching the sites over break."
- "The Keynotes were thought-provoking and extended my thinking."
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"Thank you so much for your contribution at the Summit."
Lori J Vargo
Reading First - Ohio Center
The University of Akron
March 29, 2006
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"Dear Dr. Bonk: It has been my signal pleasure to meet you and to have heard one of your performances (surely the informative lecture is just
entirely too tame)."
Mary Wynn Roper, B.S., M.S.
Lecturer, History
Troy University, Fort Benning Campus
March 29, 2006
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"I finally got around to watching your "Perfect e-Storm" talk in
Wisconsin. Great stuff. As always, I found your talk inspiring. If I
get this job, I may make it required viewing in my first professional
development workshop."
Marc Callan, Teacher
Mount Vernon Community School Corporation
Fortville, Indiana
February 19, 2006
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"Thank you for presenting at this year's OLA Super Conference. People were talking about your session throughout the conference. They really enjoyed your delivery 'style' and learned alot. I think your positive attitude resonated with many. It was like a breath of fresh air for people used to hearing 'we don't have the money to take that path...'. The audience left the room charged up!"
"I checked out your slides from the conference (OOOPS, I did not
mean to share that). It's amazing to think of what we are doing with
learning when you put it all together like you have in your
presentation...I have also found your website and links interesting
considering my Master's focus on Creative and Imaginative Thinking."
Heather Boyd, Master's student at the University of Phoenix
Nanaimo, B.C. Canada
November 29, 2005
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"Again, it was a pleasure to meet you and to finally here you speak. As I mentioned, you have saved me a lot of money now that I don't have to go to a bunch of conferences to get an update on blended learning. Your talk was not only highly informative, It was engaging and entertaining as well. Thank you for traveling during your holiday to be at NAIT with us. I know the faculty audience was very appreciative of the opportunity to learn from you."
Joe Saundercook, Vice-President, Office of Partnerships and Business Development
McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Whitby, Ontario
November 25, 2005
Link to streamed video of keynote presentation at the McGraw-Hill Ryerson Regional Event Series
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"You were/are terrific! People all over are talking about your
presentation- you were definitely a hit. I now want to organize a
'book' study/discussion around your Handbook of Blended Learning
(HOBLe)...online, of course."
BJ Eib
Research Staff
Learning Commons
University of Calgary
November 17, 2005
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"Bonk is striving once again to make the world flat by teaching people how technology, together with high-quality instruction, can shift paradigms for the better understanding of human potential."
Full Story of Bonk Presentation at the University of Calgary's Learning Commons
"Thanks for the thought provoking - and entertaining - session at the Leeds Metropolitan LTA Conference yesterday.
Much to digest."
Peter Williams,
Senior Lecturer
Leeds Metropolitan University
Leeds Business School
September 12, 2005
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"Thanks so much for presentations - you were a hit!
The delegates not only appreciated your remarks, but they loved your interactive and engaging presentations.
In fact, they were talking about the ideas you presented throughout the day.
The remote clicker/voting activity was
Terrific - many ideas were generated on how to leverage clicker technology in the classroom.
Thanks again on for the energizing and thought provoking talk. It was fun to work with you and have
you present via videoconference - it was very effective."
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Janet Murphy
Manager, Innovative Learning Solutions
Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning (ABEL) Program
York University, Toronto
August 28, 2005
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"Your e-learning workshops in Taiwan were well received. The audience loved you.
I am looking forward to another opportunity to invite you back."
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Feng-Kwei Wang, Ph.D.
Executive Director, ITRI College
Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan
August 22, 2005
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"You have delivered one of the best talks I have ever heard in the past 7 years in the US. I am so glad to meet you because I know that I can learn a lot from you."
BaoHui Zhang, PhD, Assistant Professor
National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technology University
Singapore
June 6, 2005
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"Great to meet you and what a terrific keynote!!! We all really appreciate the enthusiastic and quite humorous delivery of your presentation. The feedback was outstanding and your contribution truly added to the success of WebCT's 6th Annual Conference."
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Carol A. Vallone
Chairman, President & CEO
WebCT, Inc.
Lynnfield, MA
July 20, 2004
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"I wanted to let you know that I thoroughly enjoyed your presentations at the WebCT conference! Your practical ideas, presented in a creative environment, really made an impact on our Concordia team. Are you open to the idea of being a speaker at future faculty retreats or symposiums we are in the process of planning for the upcoming year?"
Jean Rock
Associate Dean
Undergraduate Studies
Concordia University
St. Paul, MN
July 21, 2004
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"Thank you for your wonderful presentation yesterday on InterACTION in online courses. The strategies and activities that you mentioned could really revolutionize online learning in higher education. In the realm of online learning and cognitive psychology, are there any texts that you could recommend reading?"
Jeff Krebs
Instructional Technologist
Union Institute & University
April. 7, 2004
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"I enjoyed both of your presentations this week at the ION (Illinois Online Network) Faculty Summer Institute. Your work is inspiring! You offered to send a whole variety of resources which I would like to request."
Dan Balzer
Teaching/Learning Instructional Designer
Waubonsee Community College/ILCCO Learning Academy
Sugar Grove, Illinois
May 28, 2004
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"I would like to thank you for you inspirational presentation on Friday 26th November in Birmingham. I enjoyed it so much that I decided to use a similar format for my house assemblies this week in a 11-16 secondary school in front of 450 kids each day. I used my own props, wore a ski hat, which could be worn in a silly way or in a serious way, but the response from the kids was overwhelming and I was able to put across a really serious point. I will now have to obtain some really good visual and sound files for my next presentation."
Tom McIntyre
Assistant Headteacher
Ladymead Community School
Taunton,
United Kingdom
November 30, 2004
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"First of all, thank you for the two of the best academic presentations I have ever attended. I was at both the Coventry ones on e-learning in Higher Ed. and the evening 'corporate' follow-up on Wednesday ... Not only did you bring me up to speed on how blended learning is taking off world wide, but also I learned lots about how to engage an audience and put info. across in a way that it really 'stuck'! the costumes were spectacular, the chocolates tasty and your casting of your 'mini-me' assistant was worthy of the 'West Wing' and the 'Sopranos' (I thought you had brought the guy all the way from the States but he told me afterwards, he didn't know he had the job until Wednesday morning!) BTW, I am saving the $million bill I won for my next visit to San Francisco."
Colin Barnes
United Kingdom
November 26, 2004
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"BTW I hosted the Happy Hour last night on Net*Working and you were a hit! I heard direct and side conversation how much people got out of your presentation and your use of Eluminate. Some lamenting having missed the first session like myself. Woohoo! The Bonkmeister strikes again!!!"
Bronwyn Stuckey
Director, Innovative Educational Ideas
Australia
November 10, 2004
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"I checked out your site. It's fantastic! I'm sure I'll be doing a lot of reading in the future. I really enjoyed the seminar today. A lot of super ideas. Almost made me wish I was starting my masters at Indiana this fall. I think you've found your niche in Instructional Technology….can't imagine you, with your personality as an accountant."
Ann. M. Jenkins
Distance/Global Education - instructional Designer
Western Iowa Tech Community College
April 6, 2004
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"As I told Tom (our instructional technologist), my time with Curt today was fantastic. I really resonated with the idea of us being at the heart of a perfect storm. Like the characters in the movie, I have the optimism to believe that if I just point the right direction and goose the engines a bit, I can make it out of this alive!"
David Weaver
Maricopa County (Arizona) Community College District
January 14, 2004
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"Curtis, you were a tremendous hit! In fact, I heard from a few people who said the enjoyed your presentation more than any other speakers, even those sponsored by the District. Thank you for following up with more information which ill share with the participants. We hope you can come back again!"
Naomi O. Story
Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning
Mesa Community College
Maricopa County (Arizona) Community College District
January 15, 2004
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