Join us for the 2007 TAA Conference at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo in downtown Buffalo, NY, June 22-23

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Book Raffle
IIL Publishing, New York will raffle four books at the 2007 TAA Conference
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Coming to Buffalo? Put these two books on your reading list
City of Light by Lauren Belfer
Trip to Niagara Falls by Geronimo Stilton (Scholastic)
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Mentoring Sessions
Several veteran authors have agreed to serve as mentors at the conference. Attendees will be able to sign up at the conference registration desk for 15-minute sessions with a mentor. A list of mentors will be available soon.

Roundtable Discussions Luncheon
Saturday, June 23
12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Choose from 10 different moderated roundtable discussions related to textbook and academic authoring.
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Dinner at The Anchor Bar
Thursday, June 21, 6 p.m.
The restaurant where Buffalo-style wings were invented
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Buffalo, NY Waterfront Tour
Friday, June 22, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Take a guided tour of the Buffalo waterfront
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Karpeles Manuscript Musuem and Library Tour
Friday, June 22, 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
View Walt Disney illustrations and documents, among others
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Social Networking Event: A Chartered 3-hour Dinner Cruise Aboard the Grand Lady
Friday, June 22, 6:45 p.m. to 10 p.m.
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Four-hour Guided Tour to Niagara Falls (American side)
Saturday, June 23, 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tour full.
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Free one-on-one sessions with an authoring attorney or literary agent
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Robert W. Christopherson is Professor Emeritus of Geography at American River College in Sacramento, and author of three best-selling physical geography texts, including Geosystems.

Developing Electronic Materials: Preparing an Animation CD-ROM to Accompany Your Textbook
Presenter: Robert W. Christopherson, Professor Emeritus of Geography, American River College, and the author of numerous CD-ROM products that are shipped in his texts, which include Geosystems, Applied Physical Geography and Elemental Geosystems.

Friday, June 22
4:15 - 5:15 p.m.
Preliminary conference schedule

Robert Christopherson will show you how to prepare animations and references to accompany your books. His latest disk contains 67 animations, satellite images, video clips, photo galleries, map references, and self-tests—all with custom navigation device. He shows how to do scripts and story boards to guide the animators, the animations themselves through developmental phases, and the sequences—basically, the entire process including shooting the DVI-HD video clips in the field for use on the CD and how to simply edit for presentation.

About the Presenter:

Robert W. Christopherson is Professor Emeritus of Geography at American River College, and the author of the leading physical geography texts in the US and Canada: Geosystems 6/E, Elemental Geosystems 5/E, Geosystems Canadian Edition, and Applied Physical Geography, 6/E, all published by Pearson Prentice Hall. He attended Cal State University-Chico, and Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. His first textbook was published in 1992. He has spoken across the US and Canada to hundreds of colleges, groups, and at professional meetings. He and his nature photographer wife have completed eight polar expeditions since September 2003 to gather information and photos for his textbooks.

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