SLATE Group Blog: May SLATE meeting FINAL reminder

This is a final reminder that our next monthly SLATE meeting will be on Wednesday, May 11th beginning @ 10:05am and hosted by Northern Illinois University. We will be meeting in the Homes Student Center, Sky Room. Additional information, parking, maps, etc., can be found at the end of this message. So that NIU can prepare for our visit, it is very important that you RSVP back to Ken Sadowski by today (Mon, May 2nd), with the names of those who will be attending from your institution.

Main Agenda – Bb 9 on Cruise Control

This meeting will be a continuation of the discussion, that began at our March meeting, where we identified some of the obvious (and not so obvious) things to look out for regarding upgrading to Blackboard 9.x

During this discussion, let's discuss where member institutions are/should be in their rollout, communication and training initiatives that are underway, and system-wide configurations that have been made (ie. features that have been turned on/off and why). Also considerations for the summer/fall service packs. NIU will kick-off the discussion by sharing their preparation efforts and training initiatives prior to their upgrade.

Blackboard will again be participating remotely. Anyone with specific questions, comments, experiencing problems, having update concerns or anything else related to the meeting topic can send them to me before Monday, May 10 so they can be forwarded to Blackboard prior to the meeting. Anyone who has already moved to version 9 is encouraged to participate either in-person or online.

Additional Agenda Items (as time allows)

- follow-up or additional questions from last months meeting

- 2011 SLATE Conference call for proposals, registration, etc.

- BbWorld; attendance, meeting, etc.

PLEASE NOTE – SLATE meetings are now streamed live online!

If you are unable to attend in person – the monthly SLATE meetings are now streamed live thanks to our friends at Wimba – we are using Wimba Classroom.
To participate, visit: http://bit.ly/slatemeeting and login using the following:

Enter Room ID: SLATE
Enter Name: first initial+lastname (no spaces. Example: jsmith)

We’ll plan to begin streaming this session at approximately at 9:45am

Directions & Parking

Parking in the visitor lot cost $5.00 a day. We will be meeting in the Holmes Student Center, Sky Center (located on the 16th floor)

- Interactive campus map

- directions to DeKalb

- parking information