Online Session Guide
View the entire conference educational program with our online Program Guide. This feature allows you to view sessions chronologically as well as search by time, speaker name, and format. Looking for more information? Click on the session title for a complete session description. To read the speakers’ profiles, click on the name. Best of all, when you find something of interest to you, simply add it to your own personal calendar to help you keep track of the sessions you wish to attend.
Remember, conference sessions do not require advanced sign-up and are first-come, first-served. Using the online program guide to develop your personal schedule does not register you for a particular session.
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Tracks & Sessions - January 28-30, 2009
Concurrent Education Sessions take place from Wednesday through Friday and are organized into five tracks. The overall schedule is designed to provide maximum time for sessions, visiting the EXPO, and networking throughout the day. Speakers are encouraged to deliver education sessions which focus on immediate application of your learning back-on-the-job.
Conference sessions are designed to give you an overview of a topic, updates on trends, best practices and case studies, and new technologies, techniques, and software to help you in your work. 80 sessions will be offered Wednesday through Friday. Sessions are developed according to eight Learning Approaches and directed at specific Target Audiences. Learning Labs will again provides an opportunity for informal learning with peers to anchor the daily learning experience.
Click here to view track descriptions.
General Sessions
General Sessions will be held on Wednesday and Thursday beginning at 8:15 a.m. showcasing keynote speakers with important messages for the e-learning practitioner. These sessions are an opportunity for all conference participants to come together and hear from the leaders in the profession. Keynote speakers offer insight and inspiration, current thinking and future trends on a range of topics of interest to participants. Wednesday and Thursday General Sessions will be followed by extended EXPO time.
On Friday, the Closing General Session, led by Bob Mosher, 2009 Planning Advisory Committee Chair, is an opportunity for attendees to come together and integrate their learning from the conference and plan for tangible ways to implement that learning back on the job. The Closing General Session will begin at 12:30 p.m. and close the conference on a high note.
Learn more about the TK2009 General Session Speakers.
Creation Stations
The ever-popular Creation Stations will be back with a series of new topics focused on emerging technologies. Learners will be able to get their hands on Second Life and learn tips to design in this medium; experience a variety of mobile learning tools and design elements; using Audience Response Systems for learning; and creating podcasts. Other sessions will focus on new content in Flash, Action Script, PowerPoint 2007, simulations, performance support, and Adobe Connect. Click here to view session descriptions.
Learn More about Creation Stations.
FACE-Time
This feature is designed to give you focused time with experts in the e-learning field to discuss your particular issue or question. Check the flyer in your tote bag for a list of consultants and their areas of expertise.
Please limit your appointments to one per person to allow others to have an opportunity.
Learning Labs
Learning Labs are designed to provide an informal learning opportunity for you to gather with peers and discuss and anchor your learning experience. Each Lab will be led by a facilitator to provide structure and will be focused by e-learning job functions such as developer, instructional designer, manager, etc. Learning Labs will be held on Thursday and Friday from 7:15-8:00 a.m.
Each Learning Lab will have a wiki for use by the facilitators (to post discussion highlights) and participants (to post ideas, resources, and questions). Access wikis below.
New for 2009! Professional Development Sessions
Enhance your personal professional development with these helpful education sessions.
Career Sessions
All Career Sessions will be held in the Career Theater -- Rio Pavilion
Wednesday January 28
Creating Powerful Resumes,
Presenter Marshall Brown
Job Search Strategies for Tough Times,
Presenter Alan De Back
Thursday January 29
Job Search Strategies for Tough Times,
Presenter Alan De Back
Creating Powerful Resumes,
Presenter Marshall Brown
*These sessions contain the same content as the Wednesday sessions.
Career Conversations
Your time to talk informally about career topics! These 30-minute discussions will be moderated by career session presenters Marshall Brown and Alan De Back. Share your career questions and learn from your peers and the moderator. Career Conversations will be located near the Career Theater, the Rio Pavilion.
Wednesday, January 28
11:00-11:30 am
Open Career Topic, Marshall Brown, Moderator
Thursday, January 29
9:30-10:00 am
Networking, Marshall Brown, Moderator
Interviewing, Alan De Back, Moderator
10:00-10:30 am
Networking, Marshall Brown, Moderator
Interviewing, Alan De Back, Moderator
2:45-3:15 pm
Open Career Topic, Marshall Brown and Alan De Back, Moderators
Tech Intensives
Tech Intensives are two hour intensives on topics requiring more depth and interactive delivery. 10 different topics will be offered; four will be hands-on using computers. Topics for 2009 include: web tools, web design and more.
New!—Integrating Adobe Creative Suite to Maximize E-Learning Development
Professional web designers and graphic professionals around the world use the Adobe Creative Suite for Web to create exciting and dynamic web sites, graphic pieces and multimedia. If you are an eLearning developer, you should consider using this powerful package to create and deliver your online courses. But, what software do you get in the suite? What role does each piece play? How well do they work together? This session will answer those questions, plus provide you with tips and techniques for maximizing your development capabilities.
New!--Instructional Design for the Semantic Web
This session will teach participants how to evaluate and design a semantic taxonomy for learning content based on learning and performance objectives. Participants will learn how to build XML content schemas that properly define and structure content for delivery through various media and that are pulled based on different learner criteria. This session presents a new vision of the instructional designer in a networked, semantic web aimed at evolving the practice of instructional design. As an example of how instructional design can work with semantic technologies, this session will introduce participants to the DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) for learning content model recently included in the next release of DITA 1.2.
Expanded and updated from 2008—Measuring Learning Results: Research Insights for Better Evaluation Designs
Smile sheets give us inadequate information. Level 2 assessments are often poorly designed AND poorly deployed. So how can we get valid feedback on our learning programs? Using insights gleaned from the research on learning, the speaker will explore this vexing issue from multiple perspectives. The session will cover the context, timing, and inadvertent biasing of assessments; improving smile-sheet design, the development of authentic questions; the benefits of questioning; and the criticality of improved feedback mechanisms to drive instructional-design improvements. A discussion of how to evaluate Learning 2.0 initiatives will be included. You will be asked to brainstorm and plan evaluation efforts to reinforce the session information. The session content is based on the speaker’s recent research report and recent research surveying e-learning professionals.
Expanded from 2008--Facilitation Skills for E-Trainers
Classroom trainers can transition to facilitating online learning. Take an inventory to identify your preferred style of facilitating online learning. Improve learner retention by using ten online facilitation skills. Increase learner participation to encourage learning during online classes.
Learn More about Tech Intensives.
Career Sessions
All Career Sessions will be held in the Career Theater -- Rio Pavilion
Wednesday, January 28
| 1:45-3:00 pm |
W10CT |
Creating Powerful Resumes |
Presenter: Marshall Brown |
| 4:00-5:30 pm |
W20CT |
Job Search Strategies for Tough Times |
Presenter: Alan De Back |
Thursday, January 29
| 11:00 am-12:15 pm |
TH10CT* |
Job Search Strategies for Tough Times |
Presenter: Alan De Back |
| 1:00-2:15 pm |
TH20CT* |
Creating Powerful Resumes |
Presenter: Marshall Brown |
*These sessions contain the same content as the Wednesday sessions.
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