Before, during, and after the conference, there are many ways to connect! We're created a few social networking opportunities using some of the most popular social networking tools. Feel free to begin connecting now using any of the following tools:
- Facebook: Join the SLATE '09 group in Facebook to connect with other conference attendees, share photos, videos, and links to resources shared during the conference.
- Twitter: Tag all your conference-related tweets using the hashtag #slate09 to add your tweets to the conference-related conversations via Twitter. Also, follow @slategroup on Twitter for conference news and updates as well as monthly SLATE Group meeting notices and notes.
- Twubs: Twitter group built around content aggregated from the conference hashtag, #slate09, is available at http://twubs.com/slate09. Those tweeting during the conference, please also join the conference Twub! Members can easily tweet conference-related photos, videos, and links that will automatically be tagged with the conference hashtag and aggregated with other conference-specific social media.
- SlideShare: Are you a conference presenter or vendor? Upload you presentation to SlideShare and then add it to the SLATE '09 event on SlideShare to share with attendees
- Delicious: If you are using a social bookmarking tool like Delicious to keep track of resources during the conference, use the tag slate09 to share your conference-related bookmarks with others
- Other social networking tools: Use the tag slate09 whenever posting to other online social networking tools. If you have other tools that you recommend for the SLATE Conference, leave a comment here with your suggestions!
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Btw,I plan to Webcast live my 11:15am Friday talk on Blackboard Learn 9 ...and tweet it as well, of course ;-)
--- Ed Garay, UIC
Blackboard Learn 9 - Trials & tribulations
Presented by: Ed Garay, University of Illinois at Chicago, Room 604
Upgrading to Blackboard Learn Release 9 has broad implications across an entire institution :: a new modern and flexible, yet, significantly different user interface for a totally new Web 2.0 teaching and learning environment, requiring careful planning, system performance fine-tuning, content migration, and instructor/student retraining. The University of Illinois at Chicago is currently running a pilot of Blackboard 9 along with an ambitious training program, in preparation to a complete migration to Blackboard 9 in late December.
I'll also be live streaming my Friday, 10/16 presentation (1:15-2:00pm CDT) via TwitCam and Tweeting #slate09
Blogger Beware: Teaching with Blogs Best Practices
Jason Rhode, Northern Illinois University, Room 600
Blogs have become common tools for communicating and collaborating online. While setting up a blog takes only in a matter of minutes, effectively incorporating blogs into online teaching requires purposeful planning and structuring of activities to leverage the power that blogging brings to the learning environment. This session will share the experiences of incorporating instructor and student blogs into an online course as well as practical recommendations for those considering utilizing blogs in online learning. Sample instructor and student blogs as well as activities designed specifically for blogs will be reviewed.
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