Posts Tagged ‘academic conference’
SBLAAR20: Day Three
Coffee & Zoom—third day of a 10 day Academic Conference in 2020 The adrenaline that helped me wake up early this week has now gone away, and it is sheer self-determination that draws me out of bed. Although I am excited to hear some of the paper topics, I think the real motivating factor is…
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Busy Just Sitting Around—second day of a 10 day Academic Conference in 2020 Scanning for name badges takes on a whole new meaning in a virtual conference. Half of the meetings I attended were set up as webinars, so scanning for important people was impossible. But, where I could see the attendees, I engaged in…
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Not Zoom Fatigued Yet—First day of a 10 day Academic Conference in 2020 Today began the first-ever Virtual SBLAAR Conference. This seeming innocuous shift actually impacted my personal life in several ways. I have traveled on the third weekend of November to exotic American locations, like Boston and San Antonio, for the past decade. These…
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