qual conference

I have been attending an International Congress on Qualitiative Research in Urbana-C, Ill. (http://www.qi2007.org/)It has been really fun, exciting, enjoyable, tiring, a new learning experience, and many new friends from around from around the world. Laura was here too so that was swell to catch up and attending many workshops together, walk miles, and laugh. Her blog www.lauraeverydayblog.blogspot.com has some beauiful pictures of the campus...it was cool, humid, rainy, and cloudy....had to take a city bus back and forth so that was really different than Flagstaff. It costs only 1.00 and took about 5 minutes (about 1 mile on Green Street)---passed the UU church and they have a sign "Marriage is a civil right"....my head is full of new ideas for new research projects....narrative, autoethnography, photovoice, video action narrative, art work, and so many other ways to share the experience of research with the participants in a very equal manner...this conference was between the edges of social justice, activitism, equity, paradignm changes, and many more ideas and concepts....radical and mind expanding and exploring! I love new learning adventures....thanks to all the participants who attended this conference, all 955! Think Qual! (if you want to see the modern retro that this huge mega campus classrooms use for conferences--take a look---flash from the past); NAU even is more modern that this system.... be brave and take a look...and get a laugh.....the following picture is the type of high tech machine they are using in their classrooms....