so there were 3 presentations going on simultaneously for the first hour - each presenter sat at one of the tables, and gave a 20 minute overview of their projects; at the end of each 20 minutes, a zen like gong - actually, this zen like gong:
sounded meaning that attendees should move on to the next presentation. over the course of an hour, people were supposed to circulate around the room and listen to the presentations, then use the final hour to talk informally to each other and to the presenters.it kind of worked, and we got a lot of interest in the project - mainly people think that we're very cool for trying twitter as a data generation tool, and are thinking about how they can steal our ideas for their own work. of course, the difficulty with semi-structured sessions is that not everyone plays ball - so some people dipped in and out of all the presentations in the first 20 minutes, and one of the presenters in particular didn't seem too bothered about sticking to the 20 minute limit. but it was nice and informal, which was good, and people were asking questions as the session went along - i do prefer that less structured approach (who'd have thought it - me liking something lacking in structure! will wonders never cease...).
for the non-tweeters reading this, i'm sure louise can fill you in on the strange coincidence of following someone at the conference tweeting snippets from our presentation which was about tweeting. this has been a good conference for tweeting (if you're into that kind of thing, of course) and it's been nice to meet up with people i only vaguely know through twitter.
and for no apparent reason, here's a picture of a giant peanut cookie - mmm mmmmm!
such a rare thing....a photo of a ginsoak nestled in her natural HermanMiller habitat doing a presentation in the medium of shadow puppetry
ReplyDeletehad to share
no, those are her special e-learning hands, poised to express something descriptive
ReplyDeleteUxbridge English dictionary:
ReplyDelete"People: the effort of a small, generally green vegetable to move something towards itself"
Look look! I tort I taw a learning space! (er or a pile of biscuits)
ReplyDeleteIt sounds mental liz, but must have made a really great change from the usual stuck in a room for 3 short presentations. How many people were note taking on mobile devices?
ReplyDeletelouise - gah! if you were playing the games i'd deduct points for sharing that picture with the non-cyprien-stalking world! though i do like the shadow puppetry comment.
ReplyDeletehelen - i was e-learning-hand-descriptively-expressing all sorts of stuff - and was entirely, blissfully unaware until the evidence showed up :) there were a few people taking notes on tiny devices, but it was refreshing to see some people still sticking to the old skool methods. i really liked it as a format, it gave you chance to have proper conversations in a much more relaxed environment - would definitely steal it for any events we run here. those biscuits look good (though i wouldn't have guessed at snoopy if the note hadn't been there). deux points (one for biscuit, one for peanuts!)
richard - pea pull, i love it :)