Just to clarify, I certainly wasn't recommending many sessions be
concurrent, and Betsy (not to put words in her mouth) seemed to stress
that she was recommending only two sessions out of the whole conference
be like that. I also take your point Wendy, and it's a good one.
Sincerely,
Julie-Ann
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Julie-Ann Stodolny
Director, The Writing Centre
Saint Mary's University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 3C3
(902) 491-6201
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From: CASLL/Inkshed [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Marcy Bauman
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 3:36 PM
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Subject: concurrent sessions
I have to say, I don't think that concurrent sessions
would work very well. Part of the power of Inkshed
comes from the fact that people have a shared
experience - one session feeds into another in very
unexpected and rich ways.
I wasn't at PEI, but I'm intrigued by the poster
session idea. Seems like that format would work well;
people would engage to a greater or lesser degree with
the various posters, but still, they'd all be
available for review. Maybe the poster session could
be followed up by inkshedding, and then a
question-and-answer period. That period could be
concurrent, in the sense that posters could be
clustered by topic, and the Q&A for each topic cluster
could take place simultaneously (perhaps with someone
assigned to summarize questions and answers in writing
for the whole group).
Just a thought . . . I'd hate to see concurrent
sessions for 'regular' (not the best word but I'm at a
loss for a better one) sessions. I think we'd lose
more than we'd gain.
Marcy
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