Time to "network"

Finally time to meet attendees from other colleges.  Jenzabar hosted a gathering with great food and beverages:

But within a half hour, it began to pour:

Yuck!  A ruined event:

Captain Jim Lovell, legend and Apollo 13 commander

Jim Lovell was a keynote speaker at JAM.  He told the story of his role in Apollo13, spoke of the importance of teamwork and solving problems quickly.  Talking about having a bad day...

Ok, so this is Tom Hanks:

This is really Walter Cronkite:

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Who is James A. Lovell?...

...and why is he speaking at JAM?  I'll keep you posted. 

Jam!

Every year Jenzabar staff run a few sessions of "Notepad Unleashed".  They cover the functionality and capabilities of notepad.  We always get a few new ideas to bring back to MSMC from this session.  

This year Jenzabar has quite a few sessions on their e-Learning module. E-learning is their answer to a learning management system. (Like MSMC's eClass/Moodle.)  They made major updates to their e-Learning module and are showing it off this year. We are going to catch a few different sessions related to e-Learning,so we will keep you posted. 

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JAM is just days away.

JAM is where the Jenzabar community comes together to solve issues, develop powerful new ideas, and plan for the future.  We are excited to learn new strategies and connect with colleagues. 

This year, Sharon Mankiewicz and Barbara Winchell are hosting a session on the Financial Aid module: "Diving into Data".   Donna Adams is presenting two sessions titled "Do you RBU" and "Graduation". Dave MacLean is presenting an intermediate/advanced session about building dashboards for reporting.  Sharon, Donna and Dave present interesting topics at JAM just about every year. 

We have already mapped out the sessions we each will attend that address best practices and ideas for all of the  Jenzabar modules we use at MSMC. We are trying to cover as many sessions and topics as possible.

We will keep you posted as we find interesting information, tools, and solutions during our conference.