The NACADA Technology Seminars provide an opportunity for academic advisors to get hands on experience with Advising-related technologies. These exciting, interactive, and cost effective seminars are an opportunity for you to gain knowledge and skills you can use in developing strategies for enhancing your work with your advisees and your academic advising program. Each participant will have the opportunity to plan for the use of new technologies in their work, and get feedback on their plans.

You’ve got Questions!

• How can I learn new ways to use technology in academic advising?
• What is Web 2.0 and what does it have to do with Facebook, Ning, Twitter, YouTube, Google Wave, Blogs, RSS, and other applications?
• Where can I find out more about social networking?
• How can I use technology to get better data for assessment of student learning outcomes?
• How can I learn to select, use, and manage technology in my advising office?

We’ve Got Ideas! Come join us:

• To understand the use of social networking technologies as academic advising tools
• To learn how to use technology tools in academic advising assessment
• To explore how communication with students in advising can be enhanced by technology tools
• To get a perspective on how academic advising technologies can help advisors at your institution

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January 24 & 25, 2010
Seattle, Washington
In conjunction with the NACADA Region 8 Conference
Sessions & Schedule of Events
Faculty: Eric Stoller, Oregon State University; Laura Pasquini, University of North Texas; and Clay Schwenn, University of Washington

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March 9-10, 2010
Newton, Massachusetts
In conjunction with the NACADA Region 1 Conference
Schedule of events: TBA
Faculty: George Steele, Ohio Learning Network

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May 15-16, 2010
Lexington, Kentucky
In conjunction with the NACADA Region 3 Conference
Schedule of events: TBA
Faculty: Karen Thurmond, University of Memphis

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Tags: Academic Advising, Assessment, blogs, Facebook, Google Wave, NACADA Technology Seminars, Ning, RSS, Twitter, youtube

More than 30 NACADA National Conference attendees participated in a conference back channel by using the #nacada09 hashtag on Twitter. Twitter names are listed in order of tweet frequency:

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The following Twitter hashtag has been “created” to enable non-attendees the opportunity to virtually follow the action at the NACADA Annual Conference in San Antonio: #nacada09.

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Student Affairs Online has published an article that I wrote on Student Affairs and Twitter. The focus of the article is framed around student affairs practitioners who are new to Twitter and microblogging. Content repurposing via RSS and professional networking are the primary topics in the piece:

Tweet, Tweet, Tweet:
Student Affairs is on Twitter

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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!

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.

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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.

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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!

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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

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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!