Just before the session began, a colleague came up to say hello, Tom Bettinger.

A bagpiper just came in, leading te conference co-chair, Jim Sharpe. He welcomed the 300 delegates to the conference, as well as showed how this is such a global group, with many people from Canada, the US, Australia, and elsewhere.

The welcome involved a brief history of the university setting, Mount Saint Vincent University, a small liberal arts college in Halifax.

Patricia Gouthro then gave some logistics as to where the sessions are. Copies of the program are on the board, a regrets board, small emergency board, and then a message board all exist. The cafeteria is open, but it is in another building. Note to self–bring my own water!

There will be editors of various journals at one of the sessions.

The caucus group sessions have spaces, as well as professional spaces. There were a lot of logistics that were quickly presented, but one would really need to have the conference book out to take notes. A large data dump of very valuable information to be sure.

Another best practice — adjust computer time if the conference is in a new time zone to have accurate blog postings.

Some of the professional journals and organizations are mentioned.

Social sessions. Practitioner researcher roundtable on Saturday morning with New Directtions for practitioner research. Speak with Jim Sharper about this. They will tape the session to try to publish from it.

This evening there will be the banquet, at the hotel where I am staying. However, the conference hotel is 15-20 minutes away. The social events, dinners, lunches, and other sessions were discussed, as well as where the coffee will be during the breaks. The poster sessions were mentioned, as well as the sessions and how the program is divided into the difference sessions on the 3 floors.

There was also confusion as to which hotel has the banquet tonight. The owning compnay has two hotels, and the one fro tonight will be in the delta Halifax, and not the Delta Berrington (the conference hotel venue).