Dull, dull, dull.

How can educationalists be so boring. And tedious. And did I mention dull?

Went today to a lunchtime lecture by a visiting speaker who's renowned (apparently) in his field and has many books to his name. He was speaking on 'informal learning' and I thought it would be quite interesting.

Now I now that the lack of sleep I had and arriving a couple of minutes late (thanks to a student enquiry) so I had to take the last remaining chair right at the front under the speaker's nose probably didn't predispose me to the very best of lecture experiences. But I wasn't the only one who thought he took a potentially interesting topic and managed to utterly kill it with total dullness, dull slides, dull presentation, dull examples (where he had them at all which was all too infrequently), and dull manner. It was a textbook example of dull and even I, who will extract *something* out of almost anything, really failed to do so today.

I shan't be seeking out his books to see if he writes better than he talks. I've already wasted enough time.