Web+Conference+Reflections

=Web Conference- Week 1= I was unable to attend the web conference held on the opening day of this course due to a previously scheduled Dual Language Parent Night held on one of my bilingual campuses.

=Web Conference-Week 2= According to the web conference schedule we received, this week’s conference was to start at 6:00 pm. A few minutes after waiting to get in, a message popped up saying the next conference would begin at 7:30. Thinking this could be in error, and double-checking my schedule, I waited. I had other engagements that would not allow me to attend the 7:30 session, a session designated as being for cohorts 4-12, and one I feared would not be a session that would meet the needs of us in cohort 2. Here's hoping the next conference will go off as planned.

=Web Conference- Week 3 (June 8, 2010)=

After logging in to the conference at 5:51 and getting the message, "The host has ended this meeting. Thank you for attending," and keeping my fingers crossed for 30 minutes in hopes that I would get in, I decided to attempt to re-enter the conference and was surprised to see everyone already in and actively participating. As we had just received our first round of feedback for our week 1 assignments, most of the questions were clarifying points lost and how to regain them. And apparently we didn't do a very good job of following APA format.

I'll be honest and say this is a very confusing way to communicate. We are typing questions, but Dr. Abernathy is answering them aloud (sometimes, as the audio was in and out). So our archive is only showing questions and not answers. Dr. A mentioned that she was recording these conferences and that she would make them available. I haven't heard any further details about where we would find these archived conferences. They would help provide the "big picture."

=Web Conference- Week 4 (June 16, 2010)= I was not able to attend this week's web conference.