Week 2- Post 4- Publishing/Leadership Project Part 1 of 3

While I think that it is wonderful that we are taking our learning outside the classroom to share with other colleagues, I do with that I had known about this project earlier. Every year the Ohio Foreign Language Association holds a conference. While I have presented at this conference a couple times with other members of my department, I have never presented on my own. I was very excited about taking my research for challenged based learning in the foreign language classroom to this conference and presenting. Unfortunately, this conference takes place in April. This means that the 2010 conference has already passed, but they are not taking applications for the 2011 conference. I feel that this would have been a very valuable conference to be a part of because foreign language educators from across the state come to this conference. They are all looking for new ideas and ways to make their classroom better. Since this conference is not an option for me to apply to within the time frame of this assignment, I am going to have to look for other conferences or publications to pursue.