NACADA's Technology Seminars for Academic Advisors!

Technology of all kinds has become an important aspect of our cultural and educational experience. We bank, buy, and learn online. Many of us are creating, rediscovering, and maintaining relationships online. This seminar provides an opportunity for academic advisors to get hands on experience with Advising-related technologies.  This exciting, interactive, and cost effective seminar is 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

Join us in Lexington, KY for the Tech Seminar followed by the Region 3 Conference!

The NACADA Region 3 Conference Technology Seminar 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, and 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.

This seminar is for advisors who identify as having an beginning to intermediate comfort level with technology.  Though the seminar will take place in a computer lab on the University of Kentucky campus, participants may want to bring a Wi-Fi capable laptop to practice and extend their advising/technology experience throughout the Regional Conference.

NOTE:  As of May 6, 2010 the Tech Seminar has filled.

DRIVING Directions ... UK MAPS... ROOM Location

The Technology Workshop will be held in the

Gatton School of Business and Economics Building  room B&E 105, University of Kentucky

The classroom is in the Computer Lab.  I will have balloons on the entrance door. 

You will find MAPS and Parking Information on the TECH Workshop GENERAL INFO PAGE.

Saturday, May 15, 2010 (Eastern Time)

8:30 AM	Meet in the hotel lobby if you need a ride to UK.  Hotel address is:  Marriott Griffin Gate, 1800 Newton Park, Lexington, KY Campus site is: Gatton School of Business & Economics, room B&E 105 If you have a car, please help those who need transportation. Continental Breakfast at the UK Campus (Coffee, Danish, Water)
9:30 AM. –10:45 AM	What is it? Introduction-Karen
10:45 AM –11:00 AM	Break
11:00 AM.–12:00 PM	Wikis-Laura
12:00 AM –1:00 PM	Lunch
1:00 PM.– 2:00 PM	Social Bookmarks-Laura
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM	Online Advising Videos – YouTube
2:45 PM –3:00 PM	Break (Soft Drinks, Cookies, Water)
3:00 PM.–5:00 PM	Brainstorming, Practice, and Planning Session:
5:00 PM	Return to hotel
6:30 PM	Optional Dinner with the group Location TBA

Sunday, May 16

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM	Continental Breakfast (Coffee, Danish/Muffin, Juice, and Sliced Fruit) Networking, Discussion of Action Plans at the Marriott (location TBA)
9:30 AM	Travel to the UK Campus If you have a car, please help those who need transportation.
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM	Communication Plans-Steve
11:30 AM - 12 Noon	Final Discussion
12  Noon	Seminar concludes; return to the hotel  Hotel address is: Marriott Griffin Gate, 1800 Newton Park, Lexington, KY

 

If you are attending the Region 3 Conference, you will use your tech seminar namebadge.  There will be a blue ticket that you can turn in at the registration desk at the Marriott on Sunday to pick up your conference bag and information. 

 

Session Descriptions 
 

Introduction to Advising and Web 2.0 Technology: What is it, and how do I use it?

Karen Thurmond, The University of Memphis

Advising 2.0 is an academic advising use for Web 2.0 What does Web 2.0 mean? We will explore the world of social learning, networking, and collaboration by first getting a feel for the World Wide Web as a new location for life as we know it. How has Web 2.0 changed the way student interact, learn, and live life? Learn more about how you would use Web 2.0 in academic advising by getting an understanding of Web 2.0.  During this session we will begin practicing Advising and Web 2.0 principles by collaboratively constructing a glossary of terms in GoogleDocs.

Wikis: Collaborating with Academic Advisors

Laura Pasquini, University of North Texas 

Why wiki?  Because learning is social.  Wikis encourage collaboration, learning from each other, and allow for quick information sharing.  This session will emphasize the importance of how collaborative learning works and expectations for those who engage in wiki group learning and staff development. By demonstrating the ease of a wiki and sharing current examples of wikis in advising practice, participants will gain resources and ideas to bring back to their campus.  If you are thinking about collaborative advising & learning with your students and/or staff, you may want to further explore the wonderful world of wikis. 

Advising with Social Bookmarks

Laura Pasquini, University of North Texas

Two heads are better than one. Multiple resources shared are better than none. Social bookmarking is a method for individuals to share, organize, search and manage bookmark resources online, anywhere! When bookmarks are shared socially, individuals can add descriptions, make comments and include tags to make this reference more meaningful and simple to retrieve at a later date. Advisors can learn how to utilized shared references and online resources for group collaboration, professional development, and advising research practices. 

Now that I know what Web 2.0 can do for me, How do I share it when I go home??

Steve Davis-Rosenbaum, University of Kentucky

A Web 2.0 workshop can be overwhelming—Do I twitter or blog?  Or Should my advisees visit me via a WIKI or Facebook? Or Do I start everything and see what survives? AND most importantly - am I going to have to do this all by myself??  Why not lead a workshop when you get home!  Steve Davis-Rosenbaum will discuss his experience coming back from a NACADA Technology conference and being in charge of sharing information and developing a Communication Plan.  He will introduce BLUE 2.0 and give resources to develop your own Web 2.0 training program for staff and advisors.

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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.