It's over?!?

I had the great fortune of finding a seat standby on the way home, so I never had the chance to post final thoughts yesterday. I'm just grateful that I found my luggage at midnight, but that's another story.

I know I've done nothing be enthused about how much I was getting out of the conference and how excited I was meeting everyone. To say it was like a breath of fresh air, giving me a much needed jolt after the long hours spent on my last semester is an understatement.

Which leads me to this idea: I wish that this (or some other conference) was REQUIRED as a course to graduate from the TRDV program at Roosevelt. While my time spent in classes and working on projects was well spent, I think that having this in conjunction with the final project course would really cement the entire process for students. Having this type of exposure to such a concentrated group of learning professionals is priceless.

Point of concern - not one person I had interaction with had good things to say about the ASTD or ISPI conferences. Very much more networking oriented - one person even used the word "meat market" in reference to how people were looking for jobs.

Now the question for myself is what will I do with all of this positive energy?