05.26.06
FSI 2006 Conference Notes
This year’s version of the annual Faculty Summer Institute, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was a good one. Overall, the conference went well and the enthusiasm of the participants led to some really good collaboration opportunities. This year, the organizers tried something new: Everyone was allowed to select a particular track they were interested in and learning teams were created around those tracks. The learning teams met three times during the 4-day conference and then were given five minutes in the closing session to present some of their ideas. The end result was a good list of resources and ideas that I still have to sift through. I’ll be sifting through them in the next few weeks and presenting salient points here. Judging from the presentations, there were some excellent ideas to consider and I look forward to looking at them all in detail.
