Practice is a big part of learning, so we will give you a chance to really practice. This site (nacadatech.net) will be used as a “back channel” to the seminar. This means that we ALL will practice what we are learning by posting reflections, pictures, videos, comments here!  The back channel will constitute the seminar within the seminar. Don’t know how?  Get ready to learn!

Considering the technology seminar? Plan to bring your laptop! You will have multiple opportunities to get your hands on a new tool, or perhaps to learn more about a tool that you have already used just a little. Though we will not endorse any particular web based tool, we will show you a few that we have used. Then we want you to “get your hands on” as many as you can. That’s why you need the laptop.

We are working hard to provide wireless internet access, some come ready to get started.

Karen

Thanks so much for considering the seminar, “Advising 2.0: Utilizing Technology Effectively for Campus-wide Advising.” The curriculum committee for this seminar is a group appointed by the Advisory Board for the Winter Meetings, chaired by Pamela Marsh-Williams. Our members for the planning process have been George Steele, Ohio Learning Network; Joshua Barron, Texas Tech University; Art Esposito, Virginia Commonwealth University; Eric Stoller, Oregon State University; and me, Karen Thurmond, The University of Memphis. We have been hard at work considering new ways to explore the idea that academic advising might be enhanced by the use and awareness of social networking technologies of all types. One of the results is this site…

We hope what we do here as we lead up to the February 12, 2009 beginning of the seminar will emphasize some of the possibilities of academic advising enhanced by technology tools and resources. We invite your comments and questions.
Karen Thurmond