Sloan-C Emerging Technologies Symposium presentation entitled Beyond Google: Easy-to-Use Innovative Resources and Alternative Search Engines You Can Use Today by Maureen Yoder, Lesley University and Ray Schroeder, University of Illinois at Springfield.  About 42 in attendance.  Session was good. Main points include:

Sloan-C Emerging Technologies Symposium presentation entitled What's Broken? Collecting grievances for the Moodle community by Marc Oehlman.  About 32 in attendance.  Session was insightful.  Overall, seems like Moodle is good at its core, but some usability aspects inhibit its use. Main grievances include:

Sloan-C Emerging Technologies Symposium presentation entitled Twitterpated by twitter and other web 2.0 technologies for instruction by Alexandra M. Pickett.  About 68 in attendance.  Presentation was good. Main points include: A bunch of links which can be found here: http://voicethread.com/share/524903 http://prezi.com/69454/

Sloan-C Emerging Technologies Symposium presentation by Kirk Sundling entitled Low Cost Video Conferencing: Looking at Oovoo and Skype. About 40 in attendance.  A descent presentation. Main points include:

Sloan-C Emerging Technologies Symposium presentation entitled Using the CoI Framework to Assess the Efficacy of New Technologies by Phil Ice and Jason Dom.  About 18 in attendance.  Presentation was descent. Main points include:

Sloan-C Emerging Technologies Symposium Expert Plenary Panel. Approximately 400 in attendance.  Panelist were great, great, and sales-marketey.  Q&A pertion was really good. Main points include:

Sloan-C Emerging Technologies Symposium presentation by Jeff Gold, Brett Christie, Kathy Fernandes, and Jim Julius entitled Transforming Teaching and Learning Challenges in the California State University system. About 34 in attendance.  A good presentation. Main points include:

Sloan-C Emerging Technologies Symposium presentation by Thomas Mackey entitled Wiki Transparency in Blended and Distance Learning. About 28 in attendance.  A fair presentation. Main points include:

Sloan-C Emerging Technologies Symposium presentation by Diana Dilberman of Baltimore City Community College entitled Authentic Assessments for Sharpening Students’ Creative and Innovative Skills with Web 2.0 Tools. About 32 in attendance.  A descent presentation. Main points include:

Sloan-C Emerging Technologies Symposium presentation by Matt Crosslin and Harriet Watkins of University of Texas at Arlington entitled Will Web 3.0 Make Us Change the Way We Educate?  About 46 in attendance.  A good presentation. Main points include: