Showing posts with label conference. Show all posts
Showing posts with label conference. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Branch Conference

Well, it has been a while since I updated my blog here! I guess it is partly because I haven't been doing anything very exciting, and also because I have been busy with going to Conference every day. Today was the last day of Conference, so now I am catching up on things.

During Conference we had a lot of discussion at tables about strategic plans. One that we spent a lot of time on was Language Strategy. It had several sub-topics, such as scripture use, training and language documentation. We also talked about leadership and caring for members in other sessions.

I had a 'job' to do to help out at Conference. I was involved with the Powerpoint presentations. Sometimes I was rostered on for 'Preparation' and sometimes for 'Projection'. When I was on Preparation, I sat at a computer and people brought their Powerpoint presentations to me. I checked that they worked and that everything would be seen easily, then I put them in a folder and numbered them in the order that they would be presented. When I was doing Projection, on a different computer, I opened the files from that folder and put them up on the screen. The speaker usually had a remote to change the slides themselves, so I could sit back and watch or fix any glitches.

This is me sitting at the computer doing preparation of Powerpoint slideshows:

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Conferences and meetings

At the moment we are having a time of conferences and meetings! Last week we had a linguistics conference, where various people shared about different topics that were very informative and relevant to doing language and translation work in the field. I learnt a lot and thought it was very helpful and good.

Over the next 2 weeks, we are having our Branch conference. Every morning there will be devotional speakers and then we get into the business of making decisions about where the branch is heading in the future. As I am new, I am not eligible to vote on things, but I can participate in discussions. New leadership for the branch will also be elected at conference.

Here is a photo of the linguistics conference. My back is the one closest to the camera.