NACADA Region 8 Conference Technology Seminar

Sunday, January 24, 2010 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. University of Washington, Seattle

Monday, January 25, 2010 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Hyatt at Olive 8, Seattle

 

A Big Thanks to Eric Stoller, Oregon State University; Clay Schwenn, University of Washington; and Laura Pasquini, University of North Texas for a great experience!

January 24 & 25, 2010 Seattle, Washington   In conjunction with Region 8!

Sessions & Schedule of Events! Faculty:  Eric Stoller, Oregon State University Location: Day 1 - January 24th: University of Washington, Mary Gates Hall, Room 251. http://www.washington.edu/maps/?l=MGH Shuttle will leave Hyatt at 8:10 on Sunday Day 2 - January 25th: Hyatt at Olive 8 - NACADA Region 8 Conference Hotel, Room TBA

Seminar is closed.  An e-mail will come to registered participants after January 12 regarding specific meeting location.  Participants will need to bring a wi-fi enabled computer to the seminar.

 

For the first time in Region 8 history, in conjunction with the national office of NACADA we are offering a Technology Seminar!

 

The NACADA Region 8 Conference Technology Seminar will be a hands on, interactive advising technology experience with a focus on utilizing the latest web-based technologies including:  Blogs, Wikis, Twitter, Facebook Pages, RSS/Content Re-purposing, MS Outlook Enhancements, Web Statistics/Assessment, Online Surveys/Forms and Social Bookmarking.  In addition to learning how to use these tools, attendees will be given the tools to implement an academic advising oriented social media communications planning framework. This seminar is for advisors who identify as having an intermediate to advanced comfort level with technology.  Participants will be expected to bring a Wi-Fi capable laptop. It is also for advisors who want to go beyond signing up for a Facebook profile and boldly go forward with expanding their technology implementations.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

8:30 a.m. –  9:00 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 Re-purposing Content
12:00 p.m. -  1:00 p.m.	Lunch
1:00 p.m. –  2:00 p.m.	Advising and Podcasts
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.	Social Bookmarking – share information with your students
4:00 p.m. -  5:00 p.m.	Online Surveys and Web Forms

Monday, January 25,2010

8:30 a.m. –   9:30 a.m.	Wikis
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?

NACADA Region 8 Conference Technology Seminar Faculty

 

Eric Stoller is an Academic Advisor & Web Coordinator for the College of Health and Human Sciences at Oregon State University. He served previously as a Marketing Specialist for Student Affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Eric has over 10 years of web-related technology experience. His technology competencies include social media strategies, blogging best practices, content syndication, web site statistics, accessibility/usability analysis and search engine optimization.

Eric is a student affairs techie who can translate technology jargon into meaningful Student Affairs action and policy. As an academic advisor, Eric is literally "plugged in" to how today's student interacts with various web technologies.

Eric has given presentations on web-related technologies at multiple Student Affairs conferences (AACRAO, NACADA, and NASPA) and is a former regional chair of the NASPA Technology Knowledge Community. He holds a BA in Communications/Public Relations from the University of Northern Iowa and an Ed.M. in College Student Services Administration from Oregon State University. Eric can be found blogging online at http://ericstoller.com/ and tweeting on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ericstoller/.

Join us for the Region 8 conference following this seminar!  http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Regional_Divisions/region8/confindex.htm