Unfortunately there were a lot of technical problems during the course of this conference so basically I ended up reading the entire conference. It also seemed to me to be all over the place. There was no agenda or designated topics to discuss so we spent most of the conference jumping around from topic to topic. About forty-five minutes in to the conference Dr. Jenkins asked if anyone wanted to talk about about their community relations project and several people did type in the topics they were addressing. There were several I would have liked to follow-up on and learn more about them. I think the size of the group made true two-way communication to difficult. Dr. Jenkins did do his best to include everyone and answer all of our questions.
Much of the conference focused on questions relating to the field supervisors, the amount of reading we have in this week's assignment, tests for certification, and the schedule. I felt like many of the questions (and comments) could have been answered by simply checking out the website or were personal and not really appropriate for a group conference. I do read the transcripts for all the web conferences, but I did not find this one particularly helpful except in answering basic questions about requirements for the program overall.
