HigherEd BlogCon: time to subscribe to the conference’s RSS feed

The first higher ed online conference about the so-called Web 2.0 technologies, HigherEd BlogCon, will start on April 3 – well, that’s Monday! – on a computer near you, so you’d better hurry up and subscribe to its RSS feed – your free pass to this conference.

Want a few good reasons to subscribe now?

Well, there’s the websites & web development track from April 24-28, 2006.

But the other tracks also picked my interest. I’ve selected the following presentations in the program available on the conference website:

• Teaching: April 3-7, 2006
  • Nomadic desktops: What? How? Why?

    Owen James
    International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan
    http://elpdigitall.blogspot.com/

  • Legal issues in podcasting the traditional classroom

    Elizabeth Townsend Gard
    London School of Economics, Stanford Law School
    http://academiccopyright.typepad.com

    Colette Vogele
    Stanford Law School
    http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blogs/vogele

• Library & info resources: April 10-14, 2006
  • Using Blogs to Increase User Awareness of E-resources in Academic Libraries

    Jay Bhatt
    Drexel University
    http://englibrary.blogspot.com

  • Google Maps and You: Five Steps To Including a Google Map On Your Website

    Chris Deweese
    Lewis & Clark Library System
    http://cdeweese.blogspot.com/

• Admissions, alumni relations, and communications & marketing: April 17-21, 2006
  • Using Wikis to Facilitate Communication, Collaboration, and Knowledge Sharing Among Admissions and Administrative Personnel

    Brendon Connelly
    George Fox University
    http://www.slackermanager.com/

    Sean McKay
    George Fox University
    http://academic.georgefox.edu/~smckay/

  • Student Voices Online: Podcasts as a Department Marketing Tool

    Kim Gregson
    Ithaca College
    http://profkim.blogspot.com

  • Freshmen Reveal Their Secrets: The Mansfield University Podcast

    Dennis Miller
    Mansfield University

  • Case Study: Blogging and Podcasting for Student Recruitment

    Nancy Prater
    Heather Shupp
    John Dailey
    Ball State University
    http://www.bsu.edu/reallife

  • The Teeming Web

    Bob Robertson-Boyd
    Capital University

    Dimitri Glazkov
    Estrada

    www.fuzzycontent.com

  • Online Networks: A New Tool for Alumni Relations – How Third-Party Social and Business Networking Sites Can Benefit Alumni Communities

    Andrew Shaindlin
    Elizabeth Allen
    California Institute of Technology
    http://alumni.caltech.edu