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.
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!
Lots of great take aways from this first day of the conference.
James Boyle’s talk was inspiring, engaging, simply awesome. In Twitter someone said he had the audience in the palm of his hand, and that was certainly evident looking around the room. There was so much to take away from his talk, but I’ll mention [...]
It’s that time of year. Again. Tomorrow will mark day one of yet another Faculty Academy at the University of Mary Washington. Once again, we’ve got a stellar line-up of guest speakers and faculty presenters. This year’s conference planning has been particularly poignant and meaningful for me, and I’m extraordinarly grateful to my colleagues in [...]
We’re pleased to announce that the final program for Faculty Academy 2009 is now available. We have over 30 concurrent presentations scheduled over the course of the two-day event, with faculty representing both campuses and over a dozen disciplines. Over the course of the next day, abstracts for all of the sessions will be available [...]
The call for proposals for Faculty Academy 2009 closed today at 5 p.m. Thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal. We are reviewing them as quickly as possible and putting the schedule together. It will be posted on this site shortly. In the meantime, don’t forget to register! The registration deadline is Friday, May [...]
The division of teaching and learning technologies is pleased to announce plans for the final session at this year’s Faculty Academy. At 3:30 on Wednesday the 14th, we will have a brief conference wrap-up in University Hall. Following these remarks, we will break out into concurrent interactive workshops and presentations. Jim Groom will be leading [...]
