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Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award 2012

Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award Competition Opens

The Sakai Teaching and Learning community announces the official opening of the 5th annual Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award (TWSIA) competition. The award recognizes innovation and excellence in technology-supported teaching, academic collaboration, and student engagement.

Entries are accepted in the following five categories, and may be implemented in Sakai CLE or Sakai OAE.

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Jasig/Sakai Annual Conference - June 10th-15th

Save the dates for the first Joint Jasig/Sakai Annual Conference!

Sunday, June 10 through Friday, June 15, 2012 at the Westin Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta, Georgia. Supplementary half-day Jasig and Sakai Seminars on Sunday, June 10

More details to follow soon.

If you are interested in participating in either the Conference Planning Committee (logistics) or the Conference Program Committee (content) please contact Patty Gertz at ed@jasig.org, or Ian Dolphin at iandolphin@sakaifoundation.org .

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Sakai Ibero-American Lead

Strengthening regional communities within the broader Sakai community is an important priority for the Sakai Foundation. Over the last fifiteen months, there have been particularly strong regional events in Japan, Australia, South Africa, and Europe. Within Europe, the Spanish Sakai community has been especially dynamic. It's with great pleasure, then, that I can report the latest volunteer addition to Sakai Foundation staff. David Roldan-Martinez, of the Universitat Politècnica de València has volunteered to help strengthen and build the Sakai community in Latin America.

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2011 Sakai Board of Directors Candidates

David Ackerman

David AckermanDr. David Ackerman currently serves New York University in a dual appointment as Associate Vice President for .edu Services and Executive Director for Digital Library Technology Services. He oversees academic and shared computing services in Information Technology Services and the Digital Library Services in NYU Libraries. David has been at NYU for almost 20 years.

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Sakai Foundation Board Election Results

I am pleased to announce that Steve Swinsburg, of the Australian National University, David Ackerman, of New York University, and Seth Theriault, of Columbia University have been elected to the Board of Directors of the Sakai Foundation.

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Jasig and Sakai Foundations Finalize Merger Plans

In 2010 the Jasig and Sakai Foundations undertook an evaluation of the benefits and feasibility of bringing our two organizations together. Following a positive initial investigation, work began after the 2010 EDUCAUSE conference to merge organizations. We are now approaching the final stages of this process and wanted to take this opportunity to report our progress.

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