Directions to Macaulay Honors College
9:30-10:00 Coffee and discussion
10:00-11:30 Keynotes with discussion–Screening Room
Jane Wells on the state of WordPress and Outlook for the Future
Zoe Sheehan-Saldana on podcasting and WordPress and Class Blogging
11:30-1:00 Lunch and Roundtables (Commons/Cabaret/Classrooms/Reading Room)
Small roundtable show and tell sessions, featuring Eportfolios@Macaulay and the Instructional Technology Fellows, the CUNY Academic Commons, & Blogs@Baruch
1:00-2:00 Keynote–Lecture Hall
Jim Groom: Instructional Technologist/Adjunct Professor/Blogger, University of Mary Washington
2:00-3:00 Birds of a Feather Collective Reflection Connection (discussions of the day’s events with a focus and audience–these are not presentations, but an opportunity to question and learn from one another)
N00bs
If you didn’t know what WordPress was at 10 AM today, this session is for you. A gentle and courteous conversation, for the basic beginners.
Servers
If you’re primarily interested in server administration, security, optimization, configuration, installation and troubleshooting, this conversation is for you.
Teachers
If you’re primarily interested in pedagogical issues, writing to learn, blogs as reflections, WordPress for eportfolios or LMS, this conversation is for you.
Producers
If you’re primarily interested in using photo galleries, audio, video, interactive social annotations, and other embedded media in WordPress, this conversation is for you.
Promoters
If you’re primarily interested in faculty development, increasing and broadening usage of WordPress, university Content Management, and public-facing site management, this conversation is for you.
Potpourri
If you’re primarily interested in something not mentioned above, or a new subject that occurred to you during the day, or just not sure where to go, this conversation is for you.