Student CornerByBrian Distelberg The 2007 conference was a great success. It was great to see many of you there. I was especially impressed with the posters at this year’s conference. I am always amazed at the amount of diversity in interests in our student population. Although it seems like we just left this year conference, the planning for the 2008 conference is well under way. As a student I believe that students have important ideas, which can benefit these conferences, because of this, I would like to give you the opportunity to have some input into next year’s conference. Specifically, the conference planning committee would be interested in hearing what you have to say about how conferences have been done in the past and what you might like to see in the future. I will address a new way of communicating with me and the board in this article, but you can always email or call me with your ideas. My contact info is at the bottom of this article. I am extremely happy to announce that MAMFT’s website has under gone some drastic changes. One of the new Board members, Chris Latty, has put a great deal of time, effort and resources into this new site. The site is still www.michiganfamilytherapy.org. Please go and check it out, there are new features and a lot more helpful information on this site. One of the best features of this site is the student discussion board. If you haven’t used discussion threads, or web posts before, there’s nothing to it! And the directions are on the website. We are extremely proud to say that Michigan is one of very few MFT state associations to offer this resource to students. The Student Discussion Board is going to be a great way for students to stay in contact across the state. I would suggest that you take a minute of your time to post a hello, and introduce yourself to other students. This feature is also a great way to have contact with the board. You can post questions for other students, and for the board on this site. Also, I will be checking this discussion board regularly, so if you have questions, please ask them, and if I can’t answer them directly I will raise that question at the next board meeting and get back to you. Here are a few suggestions for how this feature can be used:
I would also suggest that you look at this board occasionally, as I will be posting information about issues facing students, and important opportunities and events for students. As you can tell I am really excited about the potential this feature offers. But I have to ask that you be patient with us as this is a new thing for us, and we may experience some unexpected bumps in the road. You will also notice that when you go to this site it is open to the general public, so your postings will not, as of yet, be limited to just student members. If you do encounter any issues with this site please let me know. Brian Distelberg Student/Associate Representative MAMFT www.michiganfamilytherapy.org |
