We've chosen an audience!

The class is moving along their project. Look at their wiki as they work through the planning stages of the conference. We chose an audience in class yesterday: the nano-technology industry. As UAlbany has an internationally recognized school of nano-technology, we thought we could identify experts, topics, and partner organizations internationally that would make this a better conference.

We also would like to welcome students at the Università degli Studi di Padova who will be working with us on this project.

If you are interested in participating (either as an expert, partner university, or participant) leave a message here. We will be setting the dates of the conference at the end of the semester if we feel we have enough interest.

Project update and new wiki link

I just discovered that the wiki I linked to in my previous posts may not have been viewable to the general public. I hope that we will soon get some contacts to participate in the planning of our online conference project. We have a number of native language speakers (especially Spanish). We are coming up with a list of best practices for online meetings (after our first try on Friday). We are still working on how to use a wiki, and even defining how a wiki can be used. We will probably use Vicki Davis's post as a guideline. However, as this a global communication course, we will probably explore the cultural modifications that need to be made within a global context (i.e. defining the group, defining roles in the writing process, language use, who should be allowed to edit and how).