Guidebook Conference Program App
Guidebook is a conference app that allows you to plan your day with a personalized schedule and browse exhibitors, maps and general info. The app is compatible with iPhones, iPads, iPod Touches and Android devices. Windows Phone 7 and Blackberry users can access the same information via our mobile site at m.guidebook.com. Guidebook is free for you to use, but there are a limited number of downloads available. Please download to one device that you will be using throughout the conference.
- To get your FREE Guidebook guide, choose ONE of the methods below:
- Download ‘Guidebook’ from the Apple App Store or the Android Marketplace
- Visit http://guidebook.com/getit from your phone’s browser
- The guide will be listed under the “download guides” section of the application. Search for POD Conference 2014.
POD 2014 on Twitter
As you know, the POD conference typically has an active backchannel on Twitter! If you would like to join the conference, the official hashtag is #POD14.
Download a guide to find POD on other social media.
InterContinental Dallas Internet Access
To access the wifi at the conference hotel, please do the following:
- Connect to hotel wireless (Intercontinental Dallas)
- Open up web browser
- Hotel Internet Access box will appear
- Enter last name and room number
- Click on GET ONLINE
Registration Desk Hours
The POD Conference registration desk will be open on the Ballroom Level at the following times:
- Wednesday, November 5th 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
- Thursday, November 6th 7:30 am – 5:00 pm
- Friday, November 7th 7:30 am – 5:00 pm
- Saturday, November 8th 7:30 am – 5:00 pm
Note about breakfast: Friday, Saturday and Sunday mornings include breakfast for all conference attendees. International breakfast and Graduate and Professional Student Development breakfast are designated for attendees interested in these topics.
Sharing Conference Photos
The official Flickr page for POD 2014 has been set up and can be found at http://www.flickr.com/groups/pod2014/ or by searching for 2014 POD Conference in the “Groups” section of the Flickr mobile app. POD Photographers Extraordinaire Jake Jacobson and Martin Springborg are the administrators of the page, and any POD member is welcome to join. Simply create a free Flickr account and then request to join the group. You are then free to post away!
And don’t forget about the DIY Photo Booth at the Karaoke Dance Party Friday night! There will be a backdrop and tons of fun props and costumes (thanks to our POD colleagues Micah Logan and Suzanne Tapp) so you can take fun pics and make some memories with your favorite POD peeps. We hope you will Tweet and post some of these to the Flickr page as well!
Current Session Changes (“Agenda Benders”)
An updated list of session changes will be maintained and posted at the registration desk each day as well as in Guidebook. However, for those POD attendees without a mobile device, what follows is a current list of changes:
- Vendor Session: How to Become a U.S. Professor of the Year, with Pam Russell, Christy Price, and John Zubizarreta, has now been moved to Friday, November 7th, 7:30 AM–8:45 am, in Crystal VIII.
- P14 Poster Session: Faculty Perceptions of Service Learning at a Research University – cancelled.
- P21 Poster Session: Better Tools, Better Culture: Improving Center Collaboration Using Google – cancelled.
- Interactive Session: Building Community around Teaching and Learning Events – What Works, Dakin Burdick & Naomi Shoenfeld, Saturday November 8th – cancelled.
- Please note that the Friday Plenary and the Sunday Anchor Session will take place in Crystal IV/V.
- International breakfast Saturday morning has been moved from Colonnade A to Crystal VIII.
- Grants Committee will be meeting Bel-Air IV Saturday 9a-10:15a
- SIG-TwT meeting will be in Bel-Air I, Saturday 7a – 8a
- Members of the 2014 Diversity Committee Grants Review team are listed incorrectly in the print program. The correct members are listed below.Marie Therese-Sulit, Mount Saint Mary CollegeSandra Sgoutas-Emch, University of San DiegoLori Schroeder, Metropolitan State UniversityLindsay Bernhagen, The Ohio State UniversityPamela Roy (Chair), Michigan State UniversitySuzanne Weinstein, Pennsylvania State UniversityIsis Artze-Vega, Florida International UniversityLeslie Lopez, The University of Hawai’i Mānoa
Kathryn Plank, Otterbein University
- Excursion E7: Dallas Symphony: Bartok’s BlueBeard’s Castle, Meet in the lobby at 6:30 pm.
- Cancelled presentation – “Making the Case: Building a Community for Case-Based Learning” for Friday November 7th from 9:00 to 10:15 AM presented by Scott Anderson.
- The Proof is in the Pudding: Becoming a Scholar of Educational Development is in Bel Air V, Saturday at 3:15p.
- Leveraging Leadership Competencies for Department Chair Recruitment, Feedback, and Development. Rescheduled to Saturday, 3:15 PM – 4:30 PM, Colonnade A
Up to Date Excursion Info
November 7, 2014
“Dallas” TV Show: South Fork Ranch Tour
Meet in Lobby near Fountain: 1:45 pm
Dallas Arboretum
Meet in Lobby near Fountain: 1:45 pm
November 8, 2014
Ross Perot Museum of Nature and Science
Meet in Lobby near Fountain:1:45 pm
Dallas Cowboys Stadium Tour
Meet in Lobby near Fountain: 2:45 pm
Dallas Symphony: Meyerson Symphony Center
Meet in Lobby near Fountain: 6:30 pm
November 9, 2014
Grapevine Vintage Railroad Tour
Meet in Lobby near Fountain: 12:00pm
Information for Presenters
We are so delighted that you are presenting at in the 2014 POD Conference “Leverage” in Dallas, Texas! The attached document provides information about our conference setting, the InterContinental Dallas, and about posting your handouts to wikiPODia.