Down to do the final (university) staff workshop of the season, I was supposed to be doing a couple of hours on the deep web this morning. A dozen people turned up which was gratifying. But then a major power outage rather put paid to that. (Apparently a power failure in our server building had then had a knock on effect on the backup servers (in another building) would you believe). So it was very unusual but not much we could do with a workshop so based on the internet and no electricity, internet etc.

However, I happened to have a poster on my window with the main PowerPoint slide on it to keep my thinking about the session. With the attendees keen not to have a total loss of their time, they patiently sat through a fifteen minute version of the 'workshop' with me talking to my poster and giving them 'homework' of some of the interactivity I had planned. They seemed quite impressed that I could do that and it be useful to them.

I was tired enough at that point of the week to be relieved that I was spared two hours worth of presenting, but it did make me wonder if perhaps we should create 15 minute versions of all of our workshops. Market them for busy people with little time!

In any case, several of my workshops have a 'key' slide which is very graphic and which I work from a fair bit. Definitely worth making posters of all them just in case!