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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Blackboard/Course Genie Virtual Presentation
Presenter:
Matt Wasowski, Director of Marketing at Horizon Wimba; Andrew Rawson, Content Partnerships Group, Blackboard, Inc.

Friday, June 22
1:15 - 2:45 p.m.
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Put your own Word documents online with Course Genie. You have Word documents but you can't easily put them online. Now you can. Course Genie allows faculty to quickly and easily convert their Microsoft Word documents into content for their Blackboard, WebCT, and other online courses. From one Word document you can generate a set of webpages that include navigation and interactive features (such as quizzes, flashcards, and media files) which can quickly be uploaded to your course. This virtual presentation by Matt Wasowski via Wimba's Live Classroom will demonstrate just how easy it is to use Course Genie for your content creation needs.

Navigating the Digital Discovery Path: Connecting Content Providers and Content Users

Search, Find, Use—the steps are simple enough, but the process for identifying and utilizing quality digital content in not always as straightforward as it could be. The tools of the Internet bring with them other complications, such as accuracy, permissions, formatting and integration, and standards. What models currently exist for the communication and transmission of quality digital content solutions?

The Content Showcase[TM], Blackboard's complete online search and delivery system for digital content, provides a seamless discovery path and secure channel for the adoption of publisher content formatted for use within the Blackboard Learning System[TM]. This presentation will focus on Blackboard's current content discovery path and discuss possible improvements and future innovations, both for content providers and content users.

About the Presenter: 

Matt Wasowski has been the Director of Marketing at Horizon Wimba since June 2000. Most notably, he created and still produces and moderates the Horizon Wimba Desktop Lecture Series, the only weekly online presentation program which brings experts from education and technology to the desktops of thousands of educators worldwide. Matt has spoken at many conferences throughout the country and was a keynote presenter at the TCC 2003 annual online conference. Matt has a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, an MFA from The New School University, and has written professionally in several capacities.

Andrew Rawson is a member of the Content Partnerships group at Blackboard Inc, a global leader in e-Learning. The Content Partnerships group works with educational publishers and Blackboard clients to deliver market-leading content solutions using the Blackboard Learning System[TM].

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