• Explain class and its structure
• Fill out information form and return via email prior to class.
• Watch ECA promo piece.
• Discuss individual student’s strengths and interest.
• Assign Teams and discuss assignments.

For next week:

• Read
  Student Ambassador Duties
• Read Chapters 1, 2, & 7
• Bring in completed form on convention assignments.
• Read ECA History from course package

• The Client – Eastern Communication Association
  
  
• Speaker: Don Boileau, Past President of ECA
  • Program Planner for 2001 ECA Convention in Portland, Maine.
    

For next week:

• Read Chapters 4 & 5
• Read ECA web materials in course packet.

• The Audience – ECA members
  
  
• Speaker:  Janette Muir, Past President of ECA,
  • Program  Planner, 1999 ECA Convention in Charleston, WV.
  • Head of ECA Local Arrangements for 1994 ECA Convention in Washington, D.C. 
    

For next week:

• Read Chapters 6 & 8

• Marketing
  
  
• Speaker:  Leeanne Bell, ECA Director of Marketing

For next week:

• Chapters 3 & 9

• The Location

• Speaker from Mason Inn

For next week:

• Assigned readings from Arlington County

• The Area:  Arlington County & Georgetown
  
  
• Speaker:  Monica D. Cannon Visitor and Convention Services, Manager Arlington Economic Development, Arlington Convention and Visitors Service

For next week:

• US Bureau Labor & Statistics from reading packet
  
  

• Labor Market Information

• The real job
  
  
• Speaker: Michelle Ragnetti, Ritz-Carlton, Washington
  
  
• LOCAL SITE SELECTION REPORT DUE
                         

• The Reception:  Artisphere
  
  
• Speaker: Leslie Pelzer, Rental Coordinator*

• Meet at the Key Bridge Marriott
  • Review lay out.

ECA Convention

Schedule of Events Overview

• Review Convention

• Site Selection Presentations
  
  
• Written Site Selection Report Due

• Site Selection Presentations
  
  
• Peer Evaluations Due
  
  
• Portfolio Analysis and Reflections due

Program Cover &
Welcome cover design