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Through The Years: A look back at where we came from

Here is the history of how T-BUG developed. T-BUG is a combination of two user groups; Texas Blackboard Users Group and WebCT Texas Users Group. The WebCT Texas Users Group began back in 2000 by the University of North Texas, and continuing through 2002, the WebCT Texas conference was born.  The attendance was 167, 260, and 140 consecutively.  There were five preconference workshops for 2000 and 2001 amd six for 2002.  In 2001 there was a post conference event for individuals going through WebCT training certification.  2000 and 2002 had 36 concurrent sessions while 2001 had 38, which included instructional design, multimedia, support/training, and system administration tracks to name a few.  Three vendors were present in 2000, which increased to six in 2001 and again to eight in 2002.
 
In the fall of 2003 after a hiatus of almost a year, a group of WebCT Vista users gathered at North Harris to share their WebCT experiences with Blackboard personnel.  From that meeting came the rebirth of the WebCT Texas Conference. Volunteers from nine different Texas institutions agreed to form a steering committee and have a conference the following fall.  Tammy Hoskings was the chair of the committee.
 
On October 6-8, 2004 the WebCT Texas Conference was held in Houston at the University of Houston (the host institution) Hilton Hotel, where 225 participants came together from all across Texas as well as from other states. The keynote speaker was Carol Valone, then President and CEO of WebCT.   There were 32 concurrent sessions presented by WebCT users and 6 pre-conference workshops.  We had 9 vendors participate in the exhibit hall with 4 of them doing a vendor presentation. The Thursday night event was a “Night on the Town” in downtown Houston.

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