AUTC's 8th Annual Academic Conference

Argosy University's Twin Cities campus presented it's 8th annual academic conference this past thursday. This year's theme was titled The Learnins Environment and included a number of fascinating speakers. This year the keynote speaker was Sarah Dennison who spoke on the importance of assisting students to "learn and prepare to grow a career" and gave the AU faculty a few pointers on how to facilitate and support them. The afternoon was comprised of two breakout sessions.

Don St. Dennis lead one session entitled "The Multiccultural Classroom." Mr. St. Dennis' program focused on interpersonal communication issues in a multicultural environment. He touched on a range of topics that included stereotyping, intercultureal competence, cultural values, and verbal & non-verbal communication.

I had the unique opportunity to lead the other breakout session which focused on Web 2.0 tools for educators. We discussed blogs, wikis, social networking, social bookmaring, microblogging, and photosharing. The Student Centered Cutlure Task Force also presented a panel which included a number of representatives from all areas of the campus.