Reflections on the 2008 Broadcast Education Association convention...

1--I hate trying to talk about complex subjects in 10-15 minutes. Spending months creating research and writing, then spending hundred of dollars and 3-4 days traveling to do a 15-minute presentation has a certain disconnect for me...

2--I really enjoyed getting more involved in the BEA Festival of Media Arts this year. Anyone (university faculty or students) doing creative work should plan to enter their high-quality work for the 2009 convention. See http://www.beafestival.org/ -- as I post this it still has the entry information for the 2008 convention, but the postmark deadline for 2009 is Dedcember 1, 2008. And I'll also note--sometimes people get exactly what they deserve: my thanks also to Louise Benjamin (University of Georgia) for all her work as Festival Chair; she was appropriately recognized at the Friday night Best of Festival Awards Ceremony.

3--This was a great BEA convention. Everyone gets how the world of electronic media is changing, and so the sessions were very forward thinking.

4--A reminder--if you're doing broadcast and new media related research, the panel submission deadline for the 2009 BEA Convention is 8/15/2008, and the research papers will be due in early December 2008.