Rimas VisGirda on sun 7 mar 10
Sometime in the (late) 70's NCECA decided to try a summer conference. It wa=
s held at Greeley, CO... In those days NCECA's typical attendance was 1500 =
to 2000 participants, the Greeley conference brought in about 500... If I r=
emember right, it pretty much put NCECA into the red... I think most of us =
are too used to doing summertime stuff during the summer, an education conf=
erence is best suited for times when education is in play. When I was teach=
ing, students and I would go to NCECA and have the advantage of coming BACK=
to the CLASSROOM and be affected by what we just experienced. In the summe=
r (I think) very few students would attend, they scatter to home and summer=
jobs -and the conference is the best opportunity for STUDENTS to get an id=
ea of the complexity and spectrum of the field. I would not have attended G=
reeley except that it occurred early enough in the summer and I scheduled a=
stop-over on my way to California from the Middle West, where I was
teaching... had it been scheduled far from my route I would NOT have atten=
ded... As a side-note, I used to look forward to the conferences that were =
scheduled NOT on our Spring Break. It was an opportunity for me, and my stu=
dents, to get away from school and still have the advantage of a week off t=
o pursue other things. But those were very different days... -Rimas
Marcia Selsor on sun 7 mar 10
I was at the NCECA IN GREELEY. There was a demonstration of a bread =3D
oven, and the most critical=3D20
thing at the time was that it was in a DRY county. I drove down with =3D
students from Montana and we drove the back roads home via =3D
Yellowstone..not a direct route. Great trip. Small conference. I think =3D
about 500 attended.Usually the East coast and West coast have the =3D
largest attendances. Wichita ('80?)was another small one. Our travel =3D
group of two carloads got caught in a snow storm in Limon, Co.
My favorite locations have been Phila., Syracuse (loved the hotel) both =3D
Portland times, Charlotte, Atlanta, and Rochester, NY, and Boston.
Madison, WI and Champaign, Il were small one too.
Marcia Selsor
On Mar 7, 2010, at 9:16 AM, Rimas VisGirda wrote:
> Sometime in the (late) 70's NCECA decided to try a summer conference. =3D
It was held at Greeley, CO... In those days NCECA's typical attendance =3D
was 1500 to 2000 participants, the Greeley conference brought in about =3D
500... If I remember right, it pretty much put NCECA into the red... I =3D
think most of us are too used to doing summertime stuff during the =3D
summer, an education conference is best suited for times when education =3D
is in play. When I was teaching, students and I would go to NCECA and =3D
have the advantage of coming BACK to the CLASSROOM and be affected by =3D
what we just experienced. In the summer (I think) very few students =3D
would attend, they scatter to home and summer jobs -and the conference =3D
is the best opportunity for STUDENTS to get an idea of the complexity =3D
and spectrum of the field. I would not have attended Greeley except that =
=3D
it occurred early enough in the summer and I scheduled a stop-over on my =
=3D
way to California from the Middle West, where I was
> teaching... had it been scheduled far from my route I would NOT have =3D
attended... As a side-note, I used to look forward to the conferences =3D
that were scheduled NOT on our Spring Break. It was an opportunity for =3D
me, and my students, to get away from school and still have the =3D
advantage of a week off to pursue other things. But those were very =3D
different days... -Rimas
>=3D20
Marcia Selsor
http://www.marciaselsor.com
Rimas VisGirda on sun 7 mar 10
I was one of the presenters in Greeley, hauled The World's Most Powerful Po=
=3D
tters Wheel there and showed The Captain Ceramics Story... Road trips with =
=3D
students was a gas, my first NCECA was 7 of us from Washington (state) to F=
=3D
lagstaff and back in a VW bus... did Havasu where Tower Bridge had been rec=
=3D
ently reconstructed, the Grand Canyon, having our fantastic cactus collecti=
=3D
on confiscated at the AZ border, still have the piece of Tower Bridge that =
=3D
I bought as a souvenir packed away somewhere... -Rimas=3D0A=3D0A--- On Sun,=
3/7=3D
/10, Marcia Selsor wrote:=3D0A=3D0AI was at the NCECA IN G=
REEL=3D
EY. There was a demonstration of a bread oven, and the most critical =3D0At=
hi=3D
ng at the time was that it was in a DRY county. I drove down with=3DA0 stud=
en=3D
ts=3DA0 from Montana and we drove the back roads home via Yellowstone..not =
a =3D
direct route. Great trip. Small conference. I think about 500 attended.Usua=
=3D
lly the East coast and West coast have the largest attendances. Wichita ('8=
=3D
0?)was another small one. Our travel group of two carloads got caught in a =
=3D
snow storm in Limon, Co.=3D0AMy favorite locations have been Phila., Syracu=
se=3D
(loved the hotel) both Portland times, Charlotte, Atlanta, and Rochester, =
=3D
NY, and Boston.=3D0AMadison, WI and Champaign, Il were small one too.=3D0AM=
arci=3D
a Selsor=3D0A=3D0AOn Mar 7, 2010, at 9:16 AM, Rimas VisGirda wrote:=3D0A=3D=
0A> Some=3D
time in the (late) 70's NCECA decided to try a summer conference. It was he=
=3D
ld at Greeley, CO........
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