Over the course of the next day, abstracts for all of the sessions will be available on the site and will be linked to from the program page.

We’re very excited about the breadth and depth of topics that will be covered at this year’s event, and we’re grateful to all of our presenters for putting together proposals at this very busy time of year!

In the meantime, don’t forget to register! The registration deadline is Friday, May 8th at 5 p.m. Remember, Faculty Academy is free, but you must register if you plan on joining us for lunch on either day.

In addition, there are still some slots open in our two guest presenters’ workshops:

• Cole Camplese: Course Redesign, Redesigned
• Laura Blankenship: Creating a Personal Learning Network for Yourself and for Your Students

You can register for either workshop using our online form.

It’s not too late to be a part of this year’s Faculty Academy. Remember, your participation in the conference is what makes it great!

Jim Groom will be leading a workshop on “A Domain of Your Own,” in which he will explain how you can map your own domain name to a site at UMW Blogs, thereby building out your personal online presence.

Patrick Murray-John’s workshop, “Opening Up UMW” will extend the theme of the keynote address, demonstrating a number of projects Patrick has been working on expose and visualize online activity at UMW Blogs. You will have an opportunity to help contribute information about your own classes and the resources they use during the interactive portion.

Andy Rush will be speaking about current new media resources in his presentation “What Does a New Media Buffet Look Like?” Join Andy to learn more about the online new media center he’s been building out this past year.

New Call for Proposals Deadline: May 6, 2009 at 5:00 PM

New Registration Deadline: May 8, 2009 at 5:00 PM

In addition, you may sign up for one of the interactive workshops through May 12: http://facultyacademy.org/blog09/workshop-registration

Wednesday, May 13, 2:00-3:15
Engaging the New Classroom Conversation (Plenary Presentation)
Cole Camplese

Wednesday, May 13, 3:30-4:45
Creating a Personal Learning Network for Yourself and for Your Students (Interactive Workshop)
Laura Blankenship
Register Online

Thursday, May 14, 9:00-10:15
If Any Moron Can Write a Blog, Then All Blogs are Written by Morons, Right? (Plenary Presentation)
Laura Blankenship

Thursday, May 14, 2:00-3:15
Course Redesign, Redesigned (Interactive Workshop)
Cole Camplese
Register Online

You can see more developing program details by visiting our the online program at the conference Web site.

We had hoped to move these deadlines up a bit this year so that we could provide the conference program earlier than ususal. However, in the end, we wanted to be sure to accommodate UMW faculty who won’t be completing exams until May 1st.

Don’t forget to register and submit a proposal!

The address, Cultural Agoraphobia: What Universities Need to Know About Our Bias Against Openness, will be held at 11:00 am on May 13th at UMW’s College of Graduate and Professional Studies. You can find out more about Dr. Boyle and the keynote at www.facultyacademy.org/blog09/2009/03/james-boyle/.

In addition, we invite anyone who is interested to participate in an informal reading group of Dr. Boyle’s latest book, “The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind.” If you are interested in participating, please sign up at www.facultyacademy.org/blog09/2009/03/get-ahead/.

Registration

We hope you’ll join us at Faculty Academy and register today! The conference is a wonderful opportunity to hear more about what colleagues at UMW are doing with teaching and technology, listen to a stellar line-up of guest speakers, and connect with teachers and technologists from UMW and beyond. If you’re a colleague at another institution, please join us! You can read more about what Faculty Academy is all about on our Attending & Registering page.

The conference is free but registration is required if you plan on joining us for lunch on either day. When you register, you will have an opportunity to share which days you plan to attend so that we can get an acurate headcount for meals.

In addition, this year on the registration form we are asking for volunteers to convene sessions. We hope you’ll consider participating in Faculty Academy by volunteering. Session conveners will be responsible for introducting presenters, keeping track of presentation times, and facilitating Q&A.

We’re also planning on making a dynamic registrant list available on this site in the next few days. Don’t worry; if you prefer not to share your registration information, you can opt out on the form.

Call for Proposals

Proposal submission has opened up earlier than ever this year! Beat the end-of-semester rush, and submit your proposal now. If you have any questions about formats or available technology, be sure to check out our Presenting page.

If you have any questions about either registration or presenting, please contact us!

The book is available for sale from Amazon or as a free download at www.thepublicdomain.org.

If you’d like to be a part of this discussion, feel free to sign up in the comments section below:

Is the CMS dead? Have we graduated to a new kind of understanding and integration of technology into teaching and learning?

Or is it still a vital part of the technology landscape of our institutions? Do faculty still need the foundational support of the CMS to scaffold their use of technology?

Care to weigh in on the topic before the conference? We’d love to hear your point of view in the comments below:

Deck Wars is a competition in which the presenters deliver a short, impromptu, three-minute presentation based on a deck of PowerPoint slides they have never seen before. Each presenter’s work is judged by the audience for originality, believability, jargon, and poise. Each of the presenters receives a thank you gift for his or her bravery. The winner will receive the grand prize and the bragging rights associated with the coveted title of FA Deck Wars Champion 2009.

Deck Wars Competition from Faculty Academy 2008

If you are interested in competing in this year’s competition, please leave your name in a comment below: