NACADA Technology Seminar

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

Related videos:

• Video: Twitter in Plain English
• Video: Wikis in Plain English
• Video: Blogs in Plain English
• Video: Social Bookmarking in Plain English

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

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

Here is the list of Faculty Learning Communities for the NACADA Tech Seminar.

ES = Eric Stoller GS = George Steele KT = Karen Thurmond LP = Laura Pasquini

Faculty Name
ES Mary Ann Barham
ES William Fleming
ES Hans Anderson
ES Philip Gorman
ES Sylvia Mansour
ES Susan Foster-Dow
ES Marc Seguin
ES Marcelle Heerschap
ES Katherine Ray
ES Patricia Folsom
ES Karen Maynard
ES Katie Barwick-Snell
ES Kristine Cullen
ES Alyssa Gates
ES Kelli Stevens
ES Doris Harlow
ES Lisa Ingram
ES Tammy Wiles
ES Denise Manning
ES Wesley Boyd
ES Michael Nieckoski
ES Casey Campbell
ES Martha McDonald
ES Paul Cox
ES Kregg Strehorn
ES Anne Rickert
ES Brian French
ES Jana Jacobs
GS Cheri Johnson
GS Tammy Loud
GS Thomas Woods
GS Joshua Barron
GS Michele Mills
GS Gregory Bosworth
GS Claude Sigley
GS Susan Crkorski
GS Susan Neste
GS Casey Self
GS Donna Anderson
GS Richard Brungard
GS Januwoina Nixon
GS William Torgler
GS Lisa Violand
GS Eric Roche
GS Michael Panciera
GS Tim Chambers
GS Bina Daniel
GS Randall Honold
GS Jerry Hicks
GS Garry Keel
GS Scott Roberts
GS Steve Davis-Rosenbaum
GS David Caruth
GS Wayne Mangelson
GS Cara LaLumia-Barnes
GS Linda DeLisle
GS Desiree Polk-Bland
GS Lesha Gordon
GS Dennis Jones
KT Kunal Ghosh
KT Jennifer Danylo
KT Deirdre Dibble
KT Adrianne Morton
KT Brian Waldrop
KT Sarah Olson
KT Patricia Jones
KT Karen Davis
KT Karen Thomas
KT Jessie Rosenzweig
KT Marsha Foster
KT Anita Wright
KT Kris Hendrickson Krause
KT Tate Miller
KT Beth Spears
KT Connie Eggers
KT Charlotte Gibson
KT Meghan Hazen
KT Wendie Phillips
KT Linda Hardy
KT Cindy Healey
KT Kurt Larsen
KT Denise Gallucci
KT Nathan Byrer
KT Lynn Forsblom
KT Jillian Reading
KT Chantelle Batson
KT Aaron Stafford

LP Theodore Christidis
LP Samantha Gallaher-Brown
LP Vickery Viles
LP Janina Arrington
LP Jennifer Hill
LP Linda Toews
LP Tomas Sepulveda
LP Rosamund Battye
LP Anita Beeler
LP Morgan Dollman
LP Grace Yohannan
LP Sherene Fadali
LP Rasha Kanso
LP David Appleton
LP Beth Carroll
LP Wendy Elliott-Pyle
LP Theresa Gagliardi
LP Maria Lanza-Gladney
LP Helen Brunty
LP Ruby Brar
LP Diane Rohleder
LP Fiorella Shields
LP Stephanie McKissic
LP Samantha Mercanti-Anthony
LP Aimee Topping
LP Jay Edgren
LP Ginger Godbehere
LP Shanda Watson

LP Mike Reimer

If you are not on the list, no worries, check-in with Rhonda or a faculty member to find out where you belong.