Academic Technology Podcast - Episode 10

Hello and welcome to the tenth episode of the Academic Technology Podcast. I'm Kimberly Hayworth, the manager of Academic Computing's Consulting and Multimedia Services group.

Today's episode includes an overview of a variety of academic technology conferences being held in the United States and Canada in 2006 and 2007.

The Summer 2006 Campus Technology Conference will be held
July 31st through August 3rd, 2006 in Boston, Massachusetts

The focus of the conference is on how higher education leaders can drive change and technology initiatives on campus. Sessions will fall into one of 10 clusters addressing these issues:

* Mobility
* Security
* The 'Smart Classroom or Smart Campus'
* IT/Telecom Infrastructure and Support
* Technology Funding
* Enterprise Strategies
* Professional Development
* eLearning Frontiers
* Open Source
* Digital Media
and Digital Publishing

For more information, please go to
www.campus-technology.com/conferences/summer2006/

The Educause Annual Conference will be held in Dallas, Texas October 9th through the 12th, 2006

Focused on the theme “Spurring Innovation and Marshalling Resources,” the diverse program offers a variety of ways to gather information, engage with peers in the higher education IT community, and hear from leading figures in the field—including preconference seminars; track sessions; poster sessions; small group meetings; corporate exhibits, presentations, and workshops.

For more information, please go to
www.educause.edu/e06

The Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education Conferences include
E-Learn 2006 a world Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare and Higher Education.

E-Learn will be held in Honolulu, Hawaii October 13th through the 17th of 2006

The Final call for presentations for this conference is August 15th, 2006.

A variety of opportunities and venues are designed to enable participants to actively learn from and collaborate with a multinational, cross-industry expert faculty and peers on the research, development, diverse learning experiences, implementation and technology needed to improve e-learning.

With over a thousand participants from over 60 different countries at this conference, E-Learn has become one of the leading and largest international e-learning conferences.

For more information, please go to www.aace.org/conf

This AACE website also contains links to the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference in San Antonio TX March 26-30 2007

AACE also sponsors the ED-MEDIA World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications which will be held in Vancouver, Canada June 25th through the 29th of 2007.

Well, that's it for Academic Technology Podcast, Episode 10. Thanks for listening. This podcast will be on hiatus for the rest of the summer. The series will return in Fall 2006 with new episodes.

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