The NACADA Region 3 Technology Seminar is this weekend at the University of Kentucky campus with Karen Thurmond as the faculty lead.  This will be a hands on, interactive advising technology experience with a focus on an introduction to web-based technologies including:

• wikis
• social bookmarking
• social networking
• online collaboration tools

In addition to learning how to use these tools, attendees will begin brainstorming and planning for ways to use the tools in their academic advising practice.

Saturday, May 15, 2010 (Eastern Time)

Sunday, May 16

Hello #NACADAR8!! It was great connecting with you fine folks via Skype. Here is a copy of the presentation I posted on SlideShare &  a few links that I mentioned during the session on wikis you might find of interested when you return to your home institution:

Wiki Links & Resources from the Presentation:

Wikis in Plain English, by Common Craft: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY

Laura’s NACADA Tech Seminar Wiki: http://techknowtools.pbworks.com/

ACE Project Planning Wiki: http://aaccadvising2.pbworks.com/

Advisor Training in the Digital Age by Paul Cox (@peacox): http://sites.google.com/site/advisortraininginthedigitalage/home/nacada-presentation

Wikispaces: http://www.wikispaces.com/

PbWorks: http://pbworks.com/

Wetpaint: http://www.wetpaint.com/

Media Wiki: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

Wikiversity: http://wikiversity.org/

Educause: http://www.educause.edu/

The Horizon Report: http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/CSD5810.pdf

Have a great time this morning at the #NACADATech Seminar, part deux, and the rest of the NACADA Region 8 conference! Stay connected: http://card.ly/laurapasquini Cheers!

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

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!

Learning Community Thurmond-Clearwater Clear Thinkers

What we are doing…What we want to do…What we dream…What we know

We want to connect with students

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

“Push” getting information out effectively   this is more of what we might have as a struggle…

ECONOMIC CRISIS – doing professional development in other ways that are interactive  without going to a conference…don’t have the money

BUDGET IN FLUX  admitting more students and losing staff members…how serve more students with less people

Helping  somewhat resistant experienced advisors to use the technology available to them

mashup for better advising, registration, and degree planning

online pre-orientation for freshmen and transfer students

portals and content management systems to connect advisors on the back end

need a plan for advising

online resource for faculty and staff advisors…handbook, manual

take the scary out of Facebook and everything for advisors

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

The following PDF files show your thoughtful responses to four questions posed in the survey you took prior to your arrival.

The questions were:

Question 12: Are there some aspects of advising/student services which cannot be facilitated by technology?

12-aspects-that-cannot-be-facilitated-by-technology

Question 13: Are there aspects of advising/student services which are diminished (or lost) by facilitation with technology?

13-diminished-or-lost-by-facilitation-with-technology

Question 14: Are there aspects of our work that are enhanced by using technology in advising/student services?

14-aspects-of-our-work-that-are-enhanced-by-using-technology

Question 15: Are there students we are not assisting well by using technology in advising/student services?

15-are-there-students-we-are-not-assisting-well-by-using-technology

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Hello All!

The NACADA Technology Seminar is only a couple days away. Eric, Karen and Laura have all introduced you to this site as the communication “Hub” for the seminar. In addition, all the faculty have their own Web 2.0 tools they will be using to share with you the content of the seminar. This is how we plan to go “paperless.”

I will be e-mailing all attendees access to my Wiki site on Monday.

So please look for it in your in box.

Looking forward to seeing you soon!

Best,

George

Seems like a long time ago that Eric Stoller announced that this backchannel (you are reading a blog on the backchannel right now) was ready for us to begin using. For months we have been tinkering with blogs, twitter, definitions, and more. Now its your turn! The seminar begins when you make your first post here…but how will you do it? Start with Twitter!  Go to http://twitter.com and set up an account. If you already have an account, you don’t need to set up another one. You can direct tweets (that’s one nickname for a twitter post) to this site by beginning it  with (or including in it) the “hash tag” #nacadatech09 See the posts to the right for examples.

Welcome to the seminar!!!