It occurred to me after I published yesterday’s post that I should probably talk about why I think it’s important to do all the things I was trying to do with the Faculty Academy Web site. I’ve already touched on a few or those reasons — mainly the selfish desire to learn more about how [...]
Over the next week or so, I’m planning on putting up a bunch of posts about the work I did this year on the Faculty Academy Web site. Every year, working on this site is a particularly fun project for me, starting four years ago when we first started to host the conference Web site at www.facultyacademy.org with a one-off Wordpress install. And every year, I’ve tried to use the project as an opportunity to push myself to learn more about how to use Wordpress as a site for an event/conference. I spend an awful lot of time barking up the wrong trees and generally getting myself in trouble, but I chalk it all up to a great learning experience. For example, what I learned this year will not only come in handy as we put together the site next year, I’m also imagining how I can use it to help with a regional instructional technology conference that we often participate in here in Virginia and how I can put my lessons to use in the revamped DTLT Web site that I had to put on hold this semester.
Thank you for joining us at Faculty Academy 2009. Keep an eye on this Web site for archived Web casts and session audio.
Join us next year at Faculty Academy 2010!!
Workshop in B124
A Domain of Your Own
Jim Groom (DTLT)
Workshop in B123
Opening Up UMW
Patrick Murray-John (DTLT)
Presentation in B122
What Does a New Media Buffet Look Like?
Andy Rush (DTLT)
Conference Wrap-Up in University Hall
Break in the Lobby and Atrium
Presentation Session in B210
Enhanced, Blended, and Hybrid Learning — What I Picked Up In Illinois
A Class Exhibit : Individual Work toward a Common Online Exhibit
Teaching the On-Line Literary Journals Class, the Next Generation and Why I Bought a 1958 Mercury Excelsior Letterpress
Pentop Computers: Educational Applications
Presentation Session in B122
Teaching as Modeling Disciplinary Practice
Altering Reality: Teaching About [...]
At 4:00 in University Hall we’ll be having a quick wrap-up of the conference prior to the DTLT “Bonus Session.” As preparation, we’re asking all attendees to go to this form and quickly respond to six questions. We’ll take a look at the results and discuss them at 4.
Thank you!
Lunch sponsored by the UMW Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning
Deck Wars
Sign up to compete at the registration desk or by speaking to anyone with a “Staff” flag on their nametag!
Presentation Session in B115
We Were All A-twitter’: Micro-Blogging at UMW
Old Dog, New Tricks: General Linguistics in the Age of New Media
Presentation Session in B122
Report on a Successful (and Enjoyable) On-line Learning Experience
Technology-Enabled Activities to Enhance Reflection
Profiling eLearning Website Feature Preferences: An Empirical Study
Presentation Session in B210
Academic Perils of Teaching Students
Online Meeting Toolbox
A Next-Generation Degree [...]
