How to get the most out of your conference experience: plan, learn, connect & evaluate.

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MAXIMIZE YOUR
CONFERENCE
EXPERIENCE
Tammy Bjelland
Learning in Bloom

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4-Part Process of Learning-
Based Engagement

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Reasons Why Conferences Fail to
Cause Real Change

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1.A conference is physically and
temporally separated from our
regular lives, which makes it
difficult to recreate the same energy
once we return to our homes/
workplaces.

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2. Information is presented all at
once so that you’re “drinking from a
firehose.”

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3. Presenters are not asked to design
ongoing learning experiences
beyond their session.

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4. The conference itself is almost
always a one-time event and there
is usually no structure to support
ongoing learning or collaboration
that’s directly related to the
conference.

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5. We almost never give ourselves
time to transition from the
conference to our real lives, which
means we haven’t had any time to
really reflect on a) what knowledge
we can really use, and b) how to
really use it.

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What can you do to make sure you get the
most out of the conference you attend?
(and spend money and time attending)

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Plan

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Learn

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Connect

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Evaluate

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