NACADA Technology Seminar

Well, it has been over a month (and a Spring Break for most of us) since we were together at the NACADA Technology Seminar in Clearwater Beach, FL. Time sure does fly when you need to catch up on campus, engage in student registration, and return to the daily office grind.

Thanks for being part of the NACADA Tech Seminar and online community both during and AFTER the event. It’s been great collaborating and sharing with many of you online since our departure from Florida on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, blogs, wikis & more!

The NACADA Tech Faculty would LOVE to learn & share with the larger group your ideas, discussions, plans & projects that you have been involved with at your home institution. Share your updates & news!

The NACADA Tech News (photo by Zarko Drincic)

Be sure to leave a comment after this post about:

• What has happened since you left the NACADA Technology Seminar?
• How have you connected with others on campus, i.e. colleagues, supervisors, IT friends, etc?
• What development and plans have you initiated post-seminar?
• Other thoughts, news & updates for NACADA?

Be sure to post this brief update & share any projects (URLs, etc) that you have been working on in the comments section. We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Tags: development, ideas, NACADA, News, participants, projects, updates

Note the slight increase in traffic to http://nacadatech.net during the technology seminar! Web stats via Statcounter.com

I posed a question on of our wikis for the seminar…”What would make your academic advising work more manageable?” Several folks joined the wiki and contributed to that conversation prior to arriving at the seminar. Others worked in small groups to lay out a “manifesto” of unique academic advising needs for tech solutions. The resulting list indicates that there we need comprehensive solutions for academic advising. And despite some vendor acclaimations, there does not seem to be a product to meet those needs. Can web 2.0 type applications, interfaces with information systems, communication tools, records management, data access, and assessment tools be found all together? If not, can they be integrated so that they “appear” to be all together?

Yep, I am on a rampage…you can call it a quest. I am seeking an Advising Management System. I request that you check out the list that advisors have constructed before commenting on this post to tell me that your company has such a solution. I hope there are advisors out there who have discovered how to solve this need, and I hope you will also comment. But first check out the the wiki and the list.

Tags: advising management systems, advising specs

I encouraged advisors at Advising 2.0 Seminar to meet and engage their IT professionals in the discussion of Web 2.0 tools in academic advising. Yesterday I stopped by the Academic Affairs Technology office on my campus to return the projector I borrowed for my trip to Clearwater. My IT (just happens to be a) guy asked about the seminar. He had been helping me think through some issues having to do with using Twitter and a blog on my academic advising website over the last few months, so we talked often in that time about the seminar and about our goals. He was so delighted to hear that many of you had decided that you would seek out IT professionals on your campus. So often collaboration does not take place because parties (advisors and IT professionals) do not realize that they have similar interests.

If you have not reached out to engage IT professionals on your campus in your Advising 2.0 projects I encourage you to do so early in the process of implementing any new Advising 2.0 initiative. You will be amazed at the benefits!

Tags: collaboration

Thanks for sharing & engaging last week at the NACADA Tech Seminar.  I thought the seminar provided everyone with an opportunity to connect and discuss how technology will impact the advising profession both now, and in the future.

Here is a link to my wiki that contains resources, online references, & presentations from last week:

http://techknowtools.pbwiki.com/

If you have further questions or you would like to follow up on any of these materials, you can best reach me by e-mail (pasquini.laura@gmail.com) or you can fine me on either Facebook or LinkedIn.

Thanks again & be sure to stay in touch,

Laura

Tags: contact, laura, NACADA, presentations, resources, thanks, wiki

If you experienced difficulty connecting to the Wiki I used, please contact me at gsteele@oln.org. The wiki site is located at: http://nacadatechseminar.wetpaint.com/. I mailed invitations to everyone using the e-mail address you used when you registered. The difficulty for some is that the e-mail address supplied is an institutional one and your institution is blocking the invitation coming from a .com. If you have a personal account such as g-mail or yahoo and you send that to me, you should not have any difficulty being invited. Hope you all learned as much as I did at the seminar and had as much fun. Keep in touch!

The certificates have been handed out (did you forget to get your’s…its in the mail) and the laptops have been plugged in to recharge. Your nacadatech faculty are sitting beside the pool and we have these thoughts:

George: Had fun…keep in touch!

Laura: thanks for geeking and sharing, eh? I think there are some great ideas out there and I want you to stay connected.

Karen: the electricity bill for the Hilton was just delivered. All time Clearwater Beach high. You go nacadatech! Cheers to you my good people “clink” (sound of glasses). Great work!

Eric: it’s been good. We appreciated all of the discussion, thoughtful questions…

Your nacadatech faculty

Eric Stoller, Karen Thurmond, George Steele, Laura Pasquini

via CommonCraft

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Tags: blogs, RSS, social bookmarking, Twitter, videos, wikis, youtube

Here’s a great post on Twitter, Twitter Search, Tweet Replies and TweetDeck.com.

Also, you can use twitterfeed to feed your blog posts (via RSS) to Twitter

Tags: Twitter

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We want to connect with students

degree audits are a “pull” pull students into the resources

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Tags: advising administration, communication with students, learning communities, learning outcomes for the seminar