Conferences & Your Personal Learning Network

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Yesterday’s learning was about finding the ONE mentor for your life. Today’s learning is about building a Personal Learning NETWORK around your life. Finding conferences that fit your learning focus is an excellent way to help build your personal learning network.

Kent Shaffer of Church Relevance suggests these conferences for 2009 and provides more information with links. Is there one NEAR YOU?:

Feb 18: C3 Creative Church Conference (Grapevine, TX)

Feb 26: Catalyst One Day (Atlanta, GA)

Feb 27: The Idea Camp (Irvine, CA)

Mar 12: Unleash (Anderson, SC)

Mar 17: The Sticks Middle America (Harrison, AR)

Apr 20: Exponential Conference (Orlando, FL)

Apr 23: Catalyst West (Irvine, CA)

Apr 27: Q (Austin, TX)

May 12: The Sticks South East (Canton, GA)

May 13: WFX Worship Facilities Conference (Long Beach, CA)

May 18: Catalyst One Day (Dallas, TX)

May 18: InnovateChurch (Lynchburg, VA)

Jul 29: Echo Church Media Conference (Dallas, TX)

Aug 6: The Leadership Summit (South Barrington, IL)

Sep 10: MinistryCOM (Chicago, IL)

Sep 24: Innovate (Granger, IN)

Oct 07: Catalyst Atlanta (Atlanta, GA)

Oct 20: The REVEAL Conference (South Barrington, IL)

Nov 04: National Outreach Convention (San Diego, CA)

For a list of presenters at The Idea Camp (FREE and coming up quickly in Southern California), check out The Digital Sanctuary.

For more on THE STICKS conference, check out djchuang.com.

Check out the Church 2.0 Local Forum Tour.

If Rockbridge Seminary recognizes the value of these conference, then why don’t we offer course credit for them (you might ask, as Rockbridge students sometimes do)?

When we worked on curriculum design, our intent was to keep academic programs as streamlined and compact as possible. We had the choice – do we add on a large block of elective requirements that can be satisfied through conferences and independent study or do we keep the total number of credit hours streamlined? We opted for streamlined. Though we don’t have curriculum margin to offer credit for conferences and other learning events, we believe keeping your academic program focused and compact is a better curriculum strategy and is certainly more cost effective for you.

Related posts:

1. Catalyst Conference Early Bird Discount until June 25.
2. Learning in Community or Learning by Correspondence?