2007 NACE Conference Proposal Draft
Name
Title
Institution
Chris Miciek
Director of Career
Services
Baker College Online
Address
1116 W Bristol Road
Flint, MI 48507
Phone
Fax
Email
810/766-8754
810/766-2003
Christoph.miciek@baker.
edu
Carol Naylor
Manager, Career
Education
University of British
Columbia
Room 2307, 1874 East
Mall
Vancouver, B.C. Canada
V6T 1Z1
604/822-0121
604/822-4013
Carol.naylor@ubc.ca
Keira McPhee
Manager,
Web Strategy
University of British
Columbia
Room 2307, 1874 East
Mall
Vancouver, B.C. Canada
V6T 1Z1
604/822-1432
604/822-4013
keira.mcphee@ubc.ca
Proposal Type:
4-hour Pre-conference workshop
Workshop will be most valuable to: College
Track: Technology
Title of Session:
Making Effective Technology Choices for Mushroom Eaters, Early Adopters, and Everyone Else
Summary of the Session (50 words or less):
As technology becomes ubiquitous all too often our students adopt and adapt new technologies
more rapidly than we do. This workshop investigates course management systems and emerging
web-based social software applications that promise to transform how we offer service, deliver
instruction and share knowledge with each other.
Learning Objectives:
Describe the strengths and weaknesses of a course management system to support the delivery of
career development services and curriculum.
Analyze a range of emerging technologies and assess the potential to improve service delivery,
instructional effectiveness and organizational management, as well as the challenges involved
with using them.
Formulate a strategy for use of these tools that is appropriate to their own campus contexts.
Instructional Methods:
Presentation and large-group discussion of research study on technology availability and
usage trends in Career Services units.
Demonstrations of course management systems and social software applications.
Discussion of case studies on usage of CMS and social software approaches in career units.
Participants will rotate between:
break-out discussions including :
 Sharing knowledge in our field via weblogs, wikis and RSS
 Digital identity and the opportunities for student’s career development
and team-based hands-on activities including:
 Practice posting to a weblog, editing a wikipage, subscribing to a weblog
in a RSS reader etc. (Each participant will have the opportunity to do one
of these things.)
 SWOT analysis for advancing technology usage in a sample careers unit
*Participants will be grouped into small teams, each with a laptop. Teams will move through the
presentations and activities together. They will also report back to the larger group on their
experiences and conclusions.
Target Audience Experience Level:
Level 1: topic of general interest, no specific experience required
Level 2: prior knowledge and experience required
Level 3: senior and experienced practitioners
Brief biographical sketches (50 words or less):
Chris Miciek
Carol Naylor
When Chris began working
for Baker, he was tasked with
creating the first career
services office in an entirely
online environment. He has
presented on the topic of
creating online career services
to both MWACE and
TennesseeACE. Chris is also
an MLI2005 alum and active
MWACE member.
Received Form via website
Keira McPhee
Keira’s led technology
projects in Career Services for
ITESM, Mexico’s MIT and
since 2000 at UBC Career
Services. She’s got tales to tell
about developing and
delivering career services and
instruction via course
management systems as well
as emerging social software
applications.