Week #3 Blog Post Comment #2

Wk3: Leadership – Where to Present

February 14, 2012 By Drew Fulton 1 Comment

Since much of our work was conducted in the forest canopy, the 6th International Canopy Conference would have been perfect.

I’ve been thinking long and hard about where I want to present my CBR research and the associated Canopy in the Clouds project. My first choice was going to be the 6th International Canopy Conference that will be in Mexico later this year. The timing was right and they are accepting abstracts, but unfortunately, my project just doesn’t fit into any of their session themes. I have looked at a bunch of other conferences and organizations where I’d like to present and the timing doesn’t work. Either the submission period has closed for the 2012 conference because the conference is coming up soon, or the submission period hasn’t opened because the conference isn’t until late 2012 or even early 2013. There are some really great organizations out there that my project would fit in with perfectly but they won’t work as Full Sail requires I submit to a conference between now and sometime next month.
So far, I have narrowed it down to three choices that have current open submissions, but I am not totally sold on any of them so far so am still exploring options. In no particular order, the conferences are Botany 2012, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, and Association of Educational Communications and Technology. The Botany conference has a session on botanical education and my project could fit in there if spun the right way. The other two conferences are more focused on education and they would fit nicely and I will likely focus on these two as I prepare my presentation next week.

Dwayne Buchanan says:

February 18, 2012 at 10:27 pm

Drew,
I feel your pain about the timing of conferences. The majority of ones I have looked at have either stopped taking applications or haven’t started taking them yet. I hope you can find one that fits your needs because you have a great project to share. I am at a conference in NYC and I have talked about and shared your site with teachers from London, New Zealand, Peru, Toronto, Bahamas, Germany, and several schools hear in the US. I think you have something worth sharing. Good luck.