2011 SLATE Conference - Conference Blog is Live!

In a little over a week, nearly 200 individuals representing over 50 institutions will converge on the University of Chicago for the 9th Annual SLATE Conference. The SLATE Conference is an annual event presented by the Midwest Blackboard Users Group and hosted by the University of Chicago. This conference invites all faculty, system administrators, CIO's, Web developers, instructional designers, librarians, students, and user support staff from institutions that are deploying and/or currently using any Web-based tools, applications or programs, in their teaching and learning. One of the many goals of this conference is to provide a forum where all participants are able to connect, gather ideas, and find opportunities for future collaboration.

Before, during, and after the conference, there are many ways to connect! This year, we've setup a blog devoted to the conference, now available at slate11.posterous.com. To help share the experience, we're encouraging participants to blog about sessions they attend, as well as share photos, videos, and even audio clips from the conference.  Presenters may wish to ask at least one person from the audience during their presentation to blog notes from the session so that those who couldn't attend the session can benefit from the information covered and resources shared.

We've setup the conference blog to receive emailed submissions.  Posts don't have to be just text, but can have images, audio, video, PowerPoint files, or documents attached to the email message and they will be posted in a web-friendly format. More details about how to post to the blog are available here.  So stop by the blog, leave a comment, and plan on joining us on the blog throughout the conference! 

For those on Twitter, please be sure to tag all your conference-related tweets using the hashtag #slate11 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.  And, if you'd like to follow on Twitter what's being posted on the conference blog, follow @slateconference. 

Use the tag slate11 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.

Let's get connected! We look forward to seeing you at the conference and to connecting online.