The International Conference on Education and Information Systems: Technologies and Applications (EISTA), which met in Orlando last summer, is an annual affair, attended by over 60 nations. Its main objective is to provide a forum for the presentation of both problems and solutions in the applications of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) in education and training. The organization invited authors from corporations, organizations, schools and universities to submit original works on various topics in the field of ICT.

Educators were encouraged to submit ideas and designs for developing information systems for the classroom. Ms. Sweitzer submitted a paper titled Proper Support Improves Online Student Success. She was recently honored when she received an email announcing that her presentation was acknowledged as the Best Paper presented during the Application of Education Technologies I session. The quality of papers like Ms. Sweitzer gave the conference prestige, wrote EISTA 2004 General Chair Fred Malpica. It was highly appreciated and helped make our conference a great success.

Ms. Sweitzer also presented a paper titled Supporting the Student in the Online Classroom, at the Society of Applied Learning Technology Conference held last August in Virginia. The Society is an organization for professionals whose work requires knowledge and communication in the field of instructional technology.

In November, she presented a roundtable discussion on Proper Support Improves Online Student Success, during the League for Innovation in the Community College Conference in Tampa. The League is an international consortium dedicated to catalyzing the community college movement.

In addition to her technical notoriety, Ms. Sweitzer was nominated by her LSCC peers as a Florida Association of Community Colleges Professor of the Year candidate and was one of eight finalist for the state-wide honor.