Wednesday, December 19, 2007

The talk went went well. Some 30 turned up which surprised us. We just about had enough laptops and books to allow our 'activity' to work. (And I was relieved we'd put it in when one of the previous speakers who'd done an excellent session on engaging students through games decided to come to our session.) The discussion on whether we should be doing fun things like Facebook or blogs or SecondLife went well although I don't think any conclusions were reached. It was interesting to note that most of those attending (generally but not exclusively, academics) weren't even as far along in their thinking as the library evidently is.

The whole day was really excellent - from the brilliance of one keynote talk given by one of our own academics to the awesomeness of another given by the father of a well-known alternative (at one time)comedian/writer/playwright/generalfarty. It will be interesting to see if we're invited to turn our presentation into a paper.

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