Jordan Plowman
Lantern Staff
Specialized conferences help involve and introduce new ideas for everyone attending.
Kansas School Press Association (KSPA) and Journalism Education Association (JEA) conferences, organizations that Kansas public schools are apart of, teach the basics of InDesign and how to evolve their knowledge in photography. Meanwhile, the College Media Association (CMA) advances student knowledge in niche markets, promotes higher skilled photography and how to defend and promote media.
Personally, I love going to these conventions. I learned so much, first in photography and know how a newsroom should be run. The keynote speakers offer really great life lesson stories and can become a resource to contact.
Publication conferences are not the only kind of greatly respected conferences though. There are many types of national and regional associated conferences that can extend everyone’s knowledge and understanding of their niche market.
I am personally happy for Phi Beta Lambda on getting to go to New York City for their business conference to listen to world business leaders from all over the country. As a team, they were able to participate in competitions about all areas of business, cyber security and network design.
I am also ecstatic that Phi Theta Kappa attended this year’s Kansas/Nebraska regional Phi Theta Kappa convention in Lincoln, Nebraska on Friday, Nov. 1 – Sunday, Nov. 3. They were able to attend open-minded and creative driven sessions about leadership and different ways you can express your opinion.
At conferences, we attended seven sessions each day with a keynote speaker or two thrown into the mix. Each season is conducted by a leader within the community that the convention is held or by prestigious leaders in other communities. The speakers of each session bring in a different perspective or skill into every situation, while the keynotes showed us how they handle certain situations.
Combining together each teammate can present what they took away from their sessions and as a team they can evaluate whether or not that is something you work like to personally explore or work on it as a team.
Lastly, I want to thank Dean of Fine Arts and Communications Richard Nichols and everyone else involved in the planning to make it possible for letting me and the newspaper team be able to experience this priceless experience. I had lots of fun and learned a lot.