Join us in Carefree, Arizona on May 7-9, 2008 for the Sloan-C International Symposium! The Carefree Resort provides a wonderful environment for learning and networking, but only allows us to take the first 400 registrants. So be sure to register today to assure you spot.
Premium members and groups of 3 or more enjoy a 10% discount. Premium member groups of 3 or more enjoy a 20% discount. See the registration page for additional discount packages that are available for early sign-up, groups, and Sloan-C premium members.
For additional information on this event, visit these useful links:
- About this Event - Read a summary of this event and how you can participate, in-person, online, or both.
- 2008 Program - A description of the various aspects of the Symposium program.
- Locations - Information about the location the in-person event will be held
- Pricing - Provides a full explanation of how symposium pricing is broken down
- Schedule - A general schedule for the Syposium
- Travel Information - Discounted rates on everything from the hotel to the transportation.
- Who Should Atttend - Wondering if you are the right person to attend this event?
- Website Membership - Even if you don't get to join us in Carefree, AZ, we encourage you to join us on this website as we explore the topics of this event in online discussion forums and live online community events using the various technologies available.
- Information for Exhibitors - Find all of the packages that will enable you to reach participants of this important event.
About the Carefree Resort
The Carefree Resort was selected for its beauty, great weather in early May, and a layout that provides great support for a highly engaging event inside and outside. Ways that Sloan-C will utilize the Carefree Resort space during the May 7-9, 2008 event include:
- Walks in the Desert With Experts - Take a brisk walk with symposium topic experts and discuss the key topics of the conference while taking in some of the most scenic areas of the resort. The Carefree Resort provides numerous trails to give the perfect setting for an early morning stroll with your colleagues.
- Quick Draw Sessions in the Opera House - This is the wild west, but instead of quick gun slinging, we are slinging key information about the symposium topics in quick format poster sessions. Jump from table to table to get in touch with a variety of topics in a very short time period.
- Informal Second Life Sessions in the Red Horse Saloon: The Quest for El Caballo Rojo - Equipped with projectors and screens linked into the Second Life virtual world, the Red Horse Saloon will provide a place for us to reach into this new educational landscape in ways unheard of at your traditional conference, while enjoying informal socializing with colleagues in the usual fashion! Jeremy Kemp of San Jose State University, one of the track chairs for the Inventive Uses of Media and Tools in Online Learning track, has organized an SL scavenger hunt complete with team prizes and a wealth of activity in this innovative format. This Second Life scavenger relay is an all-out metaverse adventure game, a technology-fueled, virtual reality-based experience that encourages hard play and a keen eye for the weird, the beautiful, or the faintly out-of-the-ordinary. Teams of three players take turns running the game course on a provided laptop, completing missions and building creative masterpieces. You will navigate the amazing sims of Second Life by following fun clues and capturing images and objects on the way. Each completed mission earns your team $500L. The audience votes for the most creative team who wins a mystery grand prize. The first round starts at 8pm, the second at 9pm in the Red Horse Saloon.
- Town Hall Forum in the Opera House - This town hall meeting is designed to encourage discussion across all of the symposium attendees and tap into our collective wisdom as a group. The meeting will come complete with google jockeys to provide real-time fact checking and Internet research and all discussion notes will be collected and posted overhead and online for later download by attendees.
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Find out more about this incredible location where this event will take place May 7-9, 2008, including key highlights and more images, by downloading this PDF.
