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Schedule (PST):
Sunday, January 24, 2010 - University of Washington, Mary Gates Hall, Room 251. http://www.washington.edu/maps/?l=MGH
8:10 - Shuttle at Hyatt departs to UW
8:30 a.m. - Refreshments
9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.  Welcome, seminar goals, and process
9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Academic Advisors: Blogs, Twitter and RSS
10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Facebook Pages and Repurposing Content
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Advising and Podcasts (Clay Schwenn)
2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Online Advising Videos - YouTube and dotSUB
2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Wikis (Laura Pasquini)
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Online Surveys and Web Forms
5:00 p.m. - Shuttle back to Hyatt

Monday, January 25, 2010 - Hyatt at Olive 8
8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Social Bookmarking - share information with your students.
9:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Break
9:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Advising Social Media Communications Plan, Statistics and Assessment
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m Brainstorming Session: How will you use the “tech tools”?

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

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.

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

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

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 2009 Horizon Report was released on January 20, 2009 at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida.  The annual Horizon Report, a joint publication of the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the ELI, highlights new technologies for teaching, learning, and creative expression. This collaborative effort between the NMC and the ELI identifies emerging technologies which will have an impact higher education over the next few years.

Not only does the Horizon Report overview the key technologies to come, it also provides examples and suggested readings for each technology.

Here are the latest & greatest emerging technologies included in the 2009 edition:

• Mobiles (i.e., mobile devices)
• Cloud Computing
• Geo-Everything (i.e., geo-tagging)
• The Personal Web
• Semantic-Aware Applications
• Smart Objects

Tags: 2009, HorizonReport, technologies, web 2.0 news

Listen to NACADA Tech faculty member, Karen Thurmond, talk about what attendees can expect at the 2009 NACADA Technology Seminar

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