2008 Symposium Recap

Posted on April 3, 2008 
Filed Under TLT Symposium

I wanted to take the opportunity to provide a little summary of the great things that went on with the TLT Symposium on March 29, 2008. If you attended, let me personally thank you and I hope you had an exciting time this year as we shared the truly amazing things happening around Penn State. That so many members of our community decided to spend a Saturday sharing in the outstanding sessions and conversations points to the fact that we are all making great progress in the use of technology to support teaching and learning.

Please share thoughts about the Symposium as a comment! We want to hear your voice!

This year’s event was an overwhelming success on many fronts, but I wanted to share a few quick numbers that excited us:

The Symposium Web site will serve as a hub for many of our ongoing activities. I encourage you to revisit the posts at the site and if you’d like to contribute, just log on the site with your Penn State credentials and share your thoughts. We made and are in the process of posting recordings of this year’s sessions so we could share them with people who were not able to attend every presentation. If you want to watch Lawrence Lessig’s keynote presentation again please know that video is also available.

As a final note, we are already planning next year’s Symposium. As you are working to use technology to enhance your teaching and research, please consider presenting at next year’s Symposium. We will make an open call for proposals and registration during the fall 2009 semester through the Symposium Web site. Also, if you have ideas to contribute just create a simple post at the Symposium site.

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4 Responses to “2008 Symposium Recap”

  1. Daniel Ritter on April 3rd, 2008 10:38 am

    Having attended and experienced the event, I wanted to relate first-hand from the “attendee” point of view, that it was a fantastic event. From Lessig’s thoughts to the cloud of interaction, I know I learned far more from the event itself that I would have in an equal amount of read-only material that could have been provided alternately.

    The effort put into the event by everyone involved was evident, and deeply appreciated; I’ll take bits of this event and build on them for some time to come.

    thanks for everything!

  2. RB Smail on April 3rd, 2008 11:04 am

    This was an amazing experience, with incredibly robust offerings. I was engaged in this symposium on several levels and, even after the symposium, connections I made Saturday are still being networked. The TLT Symposium has become a “must see” experience, and I am just simply impressed at the attention to quality and detail. This is one I won’t forget for some time, as it has provided a launch pad for discussions, follow through, and community.

    Can’t wait to see what you do next year! (Oh, the pressure…!) ;)

  3. Shannon Ritter on April 3rd, 2008 11:36 am

    This was my first time at the TLT Symposium and I can already say that I’m looking forward to next year. It was fantastic to be able to meet so many people from all over the university that are using technology in interesting, exciting and innovative ways. Seeing so many people face-to-face that I’d met prior to the symposium through twitter also made it a really rewarding experience.

    Thanks to everyone for making this such a tremendous success and worthwhile event!

  4. William Diehl on April 3rd, 2008 1:40 pm

    I was not able to attend but am really happy that I can get a feel for the event and can get info via the social networking tools… many thanks.

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