Jeff Morabito and Dionna Fitch hosting the banquet entertainment. Photo by B. Hale Day 4 at the SCEWL 2014 Constructivist Conference was busy with a couple of hours of finishing up work on projects, preparing for both the Critical Friends process and showcase presentations. The showcase presentations were unique. Instead of setting up displays and having institute participants roam around and see each display as they do at the ILCE Constructivist Conference, the showcase here was a series of three minute presentations to all the participants at once. Most groups used Google Presentations or Prezi. It was great to get a three minute presentation for each project but I doubt it would be practical if you had as many teams as the New York conference has.
We had a group photo of all the conference attendees with our conference T-shirts on which was an event in itself. Tim Bedley videoed short segments of attendees sharing their observations of the week. After critical friends the attendees were asked to complete an online assessment of the conference and that wrapped up the week. Because the assessments were done digitally we were able to see the results almost immediately. Tim provided a brief synopsis of the feedback which went nicely with our PMI debrief of the conference. There was no doubt that the conference was a huge success. The feedback was overwhelmingly positive. Although all the facilitators and support staff felt extremely pleased with the results of the week our debrief shared lots of ideas of how to make the conference even better.
Congratulations to Barbara Hale, Tim Bedley and all the people that made the conference possible. I know the New York folks would be extremely proud of this event.
We had a group photo of all the conference attendees with our conference T-shirts on which was an event in itself. Tim Bedley videoed short segments of attendees sharing their observations of the week. After critical friends the attendees were asked to complete an online assessment of the conference and that wrapped up the week. Because the assessments were done digitally we were able to see the results almost immediately. Tim provided a brief synopsis of the feedback which went nicely with our PMI debrief of the conference. There was no doubt that the conference was a huge success. The feedback was overwhelmingly positive. Although all the facilitators and support staff felt extremely pleased with the results of the week our debrief shared lots of ideas of how to make the conference even better.
Congratulations to Barbara Hale, Tim Bedley and all the people that made the conference possible. I know the New York folks would be extremely proud of this event.
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