This is a quick reminder as I’ve already mentioned the call for proposal of this conference on several occasions.
If you have a good idea for a presentation, don’t be shy, after reading the requirements, just go to the online form and submit your proposal to present at HighEdWebDev in Rochester, October 14-17.
This year, there is a new “marketing and professional development track,” chaired by Dan Chase from The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
A couple of weeks ago, I asked via email Doug Tschopp, the conference program chair, a bit more details about this new track:
The track may include presentations on communications, marketing or public relations topics or even basic principles. We are definitely looking for topics such as web applications that directly tie to admissions or development communications (class sites, portals, ntegrated print w/ microsite, email integration w/ web, etc.).
Then there is the whole professional development part which may include sessions on writing skills, presentation skills, copyright laws, or management topics.
The tracks are always flexible at this point. They are shaped around the proposals that are submitted, which assumes that these topics are what people are currently interested in. This is how the conference has evolved from strictly a programmers conference (WebDev 1996) into a conference that focuses mostly on the user communication aspects of the web.