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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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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

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What is Twitter? Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

Tags: microblogs, Twitter, Web 2.0