Unless otherwise noted, the meeting will be held in the College of Education, Ball Hall, Room 320A, on the University of Memphis Campus. Meetings are from 11:45 A.M. to 1:00 P.M.
| Date | Topic |
|---|---|
| January 28 | Dave Barger, Lunaweb. “Training acceleration with social tools“ |
| February 25 | Eric Goforth, Vice President and Human Resourcess Services Director, Sedgwick CMS. “Sharepoint in the HR and training enterprise”. |
| March 25 | Maria Hubbard, ServiceMaster. “The role of the instructional designer in today’s business environment”. |
| April 29 | William McKinney, Instructional Designer, Sedgwick Claims Management Service. Bill will demonstrate their use of SharePoint, and talk about their corporate training center, “Sedgwick University”. |
| May 27 | Kevin Thorn, Autozone. “Learner User Interface: Developing Themed Graphics to Enhance your eLearning“ |
| June | No meeting. |
| July | No meeting. |
| August 26 | Trey Martindale, University of Memphis. Trey will give a tour of the new IDT Studio, and talk about the capabilities of this new instructional design and development center. |
| September 30 | Kevin Thorn, Autozone. Demonstration of Articulate Studio 09 with his project submitted to the “Articulate Guru” contest. |
| October 21 | Chuck Jones, Instructional Designer, Veterans Administration. “Writing Effective e-Learning Assessment Items” |
| November 18 | |
| December | No Meeting |
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2009 Schedule
| Date | Topic |
|---|---|
| January 29 | Xiangen Hu: Demonstration of Enhanced Learning Environments |
| February 26 | Danielle McNamara: Intelligent Tutoring Systems to Teach Strategies: A Combination of Pedagogy, Computational Linguistics, and Pedagogical Agents |
| March 26 | Michael Dowdy: the recent process of implementing a new learning management system |
| April 23 | Jessica Penix of PureSafety: Overview of PureSafety, our hosted LMS, compliance courseware, and web-based training development processes |
| May 21 | Michael Dowdy continuation of March discussion on the state of the LMS industry |
| June 25 | Joe Thomas, Chief Operating Officer, OrgWide Services |
| July | No Meeting. |
| August 20 | Bob Sweeney, CEO, Challenger Corporation |
| September 24 | Karl Guenther, FedEx Corporation |
| October 22 | Peter Bloom, ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital |
| November 19 | Dick Handshaw of Handshaw, Inc.. “Why are subject matter experts so hard to work with?” |
| December | No Meeting |
