Web+Conference+Reflection+Week+1

My Web Conference experience has been mixed. While I have enjoyed the opportunity to see what my classmates look like, mostly to associate names to faces after seeing them in the Discussion Board for so many months, there were many technical issues that had to be overcome for a successful conference. When I attended my Internship Web Conference, it was to introduce the program to the people in my cohort. We were able to connect, but the sound never functioned. So, the conference turned into a chat session in which we were able to express our concerns, however, we were not able to have immediate answers to our questions and since it became a free-for-all, it was necessary to reexamine the transcripts in order to determine who was being answered and which question the answer addressed. I feel that had the sound been working, it would have been much easier to follow the session. Since that time, I have been reading the transcripts of many of the web conferences from my classes and find very useful information within them. The concept of a web conference is a great way to bring together students who are spread throughout all areas of the state and even across the country. Smaller sessions would provide a much easier way to communicate if the technology is not cooperating.