SITE Conference recap

Like most SITE Conferences, I wasn't too thrilled with the quality of presentations. I went to as many as possible. Some were good, some were okay, and a few were really really bad. One presenter used the phrase "it might be statistically significant" when comparing text-only mentoring versus text and video mentoring. Since she was using a whopping sample size N=8, I'll give her the bad news...nothing was statistically significant nor was the topic socially relevant.

All righty, enough chit chat about the boring parts of SITE. My presentations went rather well. The two-hour symposium I was a part of was smashing. Six of us presented different components of the Digital Historical Inquiry Project, a federally funded grant project I administer. It was really nice to see all the individual pieces of the grant come together. Some of the cool things you might want to check out include: WIPs, Georgia Digital History Project, Documenting the American South Teacher Page, and HSI: Historical Scene Investigation. The bottom line is I have been blessed to work with so many talented people. The people behind these projects are ones to keep an eye on in the years ahead.

While at the conference I had several good political conversations with people I respect, but I'll save these thoughts for my next post.