TAA 25th Annual Conference, New Orleans, June 8-9, 2012
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Schedule
Thursday, June 7
8:00 - 5:00 TAA Council Meeting
5:00 - 7:00 Networking Hospitality Suite

Friday, June 8
7:30 - 8:00 Registration
8:00 - 9:00 Copyright Clearance CenterWelcome Orientation & Breakfast
TAA: The First 25 Years, Ron Pynn & Robert Christopherson
Sponsored by the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC)
9:15 - 9:45 Keynote Presentation: GeoPrimer: River and Gulf: Party Time on the NO Levees,
Robert Christopherson
10:00 - 12:00 Workshop: Thinking Well, Writing Well: How Smart Academics Write To Get Published, Rachel Toor
Workshop: Textbook Authoring Basics, A Holistic Approach, Robert Christopherson
12:15 - 1:45 Lunch on Your Own
1:45 - 2:45 Challenges of Copyright in the Internet Age, Christopher Kenneally (General)
Publishing On Your Own, Patrice Morin-Spatz and Mark Lerner (Textbook)
3:00 - 4:00 Differing Lenses on the Textbook Art, Janet Belsky, Catherine Woods, and Elaine Epstein (Textbook)
Brainstorming Academic Publishing, Dannelle Stevens, Rachel Toor, and Richard Hull (Academic)
4:15 - 5:15 An eBook Update, Stephen Gillen (Textbook)
How Authors Can Help Students with Disabilities, Sandra Ho and Kevin Chao (Textbook)
5:00 - 7:00 Networking Reception

Saturday, June 9
7:30 - 8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 9:30 Keynote Presentation: Joy Hakim: Textbooks Should Be Great Books!, Joy Hakim
9:45 - 10:45 Interactive Contract Improvement Sessions, Michael Lennie (Textbook)
Five Key Strategies to Boost Academic Writing Productivity, Dannelle Stevens and Joanne Cooper (Academic)
11:00 - 12:00 Find and Use Online Media For Your Projects, Barbara Waxer (General)
Grant Proposal Writing: Do's and Don't's, Claudia Sanchez (Academic)
12:15 - 1:45 TAA Awards Ceremony Luncheon, Publishing the Gettysburg Address: 2nd Edition, by Ron Pynn
2:00 - 3:00 Roundtable Discussions
  Textbooks and Modern Theories of Writing, Molefi Kete Asante and Ana Monteiro Ferreira (General)
Publishing ESL Textbooks & Professional Books, Jose Carmona (Textbook)
The Tax Implications of Authoring, Marsha Huber (Textbook)
Successful Strategies for Graduate Student Writing Groups, Maria Plakhotnik (Academic)
The Joys of Frequently Updating an Author-Managed Website, Paul Siegel (Textbook)
Advantages & Disadvantages of Textbook Collaboration, Kevin Patton and Michael Lennie (Textbook)
3:15 - 4:15 Digital Pedagogy: Make the Most of Multimedia, June Jamrich Parsons (Textbook)
Tradebooks, Columns, and Blogs, Oh My!, Karen Morris, Barbara Sillery, and Whitney Stewart (General)
5:00 - 7:00 Networking Reception

 


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