End of day Blogging from iDMAa Day 2: Making Connections

Only a few more sessions to go, but I wanted to take a little space to highlight some amazing things at the conference the past few days.

First, I never did write about the F.U.E.L. showcase from last night. Unfortunately it's being taken down this evening, but the breadth and depth of work was truly amazing -- even for me. I'm not a big performance art or installation piece appreciator, but as Jeff said, it would "expand my mind" and well...it did.

All I can say is the student work really was beyond anything I had ever seen. Wish I had pictures. Sorry...

Tonight we went over to LaSalle University -- what a nice campus, even though I only saw a little bit. But what I did see was amazing. They have an art gallery that was amazing. It was all amazing.... AMAZING!! (ok...ok...I know). From there it was dinner for ... guess what... AMAZING food! There was an awards presentation too.

Overall AMAZING stuff (ok...I'll stop...really!) but what was truly __________ (insert AMAZING) was the opportunity I have had especially tonight to meet with and chat with colleagues from all over the country. I've met and spoken with Kurt Kratchman, the CSO of schematic, Joel Kline, the Director of the Digital Communications program at Lebanon Valley College (I was told to pronounce it Leb-nin), Jeff Ritchie also of LVC, Brigid Maher from American University's School of Communication, and Sharon Ross a professor of Television Studies at Columbia College in Chicago. I've spoken with others, but these were the cards I collected.

What makes this so good (or AMAZING??)? It's the work that is being done, the similar issues we face and the focus everyone has on improving their craft and helping our students to be successful.

So a big thanks to Jeff Rutenbeck who told me one day a few months ago that I "just had to go to this conference". I don't get out much (that will change soon with the dissertation finishing up) and this was good to get to.