What should we do with all of this information?
All of us agree that there is a seemingly limitless amount of discussing that can occur in conjunction with attending a conference such as this one. During walks to and from the conference, during breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and finally during our many hours of shared travel, we shared snippets of our experiences during the conference. These moments of summation and reflection were both thoughtful and interesting, as they invited new information, new understanding, and new perspective. Therefore, we felt an obligation to share some of these insights with a wider audience.
posted by Emalsam | 9:33 AM
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There are three publication ideas we discussed as a group: newsletter write-up, multi-vocal blog, and a possible article submission.
Hi Everyone:
We discussed many possibilities during our stint in LB and on our ride home, but I wanted to propose a possibility that would require very little of each of us:
Op, you mentioned perhaps writing up a short blurb for the newsletter—that would be wonderful. If in addition, we’d like to create a multi-vocal blog that could be attached to our newsletter article, it would take us all 5-10 minutes. If we could come up with a list of 5 questions that we could all write 3-4 sentences on, I could create our multi-vocal blog with this information. Once I posted and created the blog, you could individually edit your comments, adding more information if you’d like or deleting comments you’d like to revise or refrain from including. In the end, it would look and sound like a conversation between colleagues about the conference. This type of addition to our newsletter contribution would open up our experiences to continued dialogue between us, and if they’d like to participate, any member of our department. Using and contributing to a blog is quite easy, a task you could learn in less than 10 minutes, and I would be happy to give short tutorials to everyone, if you’re not already familiar.
If this is something you’d like to do, reply letting me know your interest level, and, of course, with possible questions you’d like to cover in our conversation. After questions are generated and replies are created, the blog itself will take only a day or two to create.
I just logged on and I like the idea of creating a blog. The link you sent looks great Emily. I think the collection of questions looks good too.
I just wanted to say thanks to Adrienne and Op for arranging the event for us.
I love that expression Jason. I hope you don't mind me borrowing it in the future.
Regarding the connection to the ECCTYC blog- I think this is a great idea and we should keep in mind the formatting they have already put into place as a “quazi-template” for our own blog. Do you all know anything about this blog? I notice a list of contributors…can we contribute to this blog as well? Should we invite these folks to join our conversation (after we’ve formulated a conversation that is…)?
AHA- I see now that the ECCTYC blog itself is really only meant for board members. It’s probably not a place for us to be posting our own personal anecdotes, theories, etc. So, perhaps we should stick to our self-generated blog.
Op- you said that you were pursuing a possible article submission for inside english?
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