Ward Cates is trying to get the word out from his blog about the fast-approaching deadline for AECT submissions. He writes:

We’re only doing one round of submissions this year and reviewing of proposals will start almost immediately after the 15th with March 1st as the target notification date.

This is two weeks earlier for submissions than last year and lots faster on notification.

Our goal is to make it possible for members to go online to a site we create and review what was accepted. From that site they can let presenters know what they’d like to see covered/addressed and let us planners know how likely they are to attend that session. This should help us match rooms and sessions better than in the past.

At the request of the divisional program planners, we’ve created a Proposer’s Guide. It is designed to help proposers create stronger proposals that are more likely to be accepted.

Right now about 58% of all convention proposals submitted are accepted for some form of convention session, although some divisions accept as little as 42%. Since a strong convention is based on stronger sessions and stronger sessions are based on stronger proposals, we figured we should create such a guide.

The online guide for proposals that Ward refers to is available on the AECT convention’s website.

If you are interested in serving in the DDL division, please run in the division elections. These are fast approaching, so if interested, send your biographical information and the position you want to run for to Vance Durrington (vance.durrington@msstate.edu).

The following positions are open to election:

President-elect
Communications Officer
Representative on the AECT Board

Today the D & D division posted information on some of their awards. I am listing them here in case members of the DDL division may want to apply:
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