David Wilcox wrote his reflections on our workshop in Birmingham two weeks ago while stuck on a train enroute back to London. He's spot on.
I have been processing my experience and wanted to reflect more on my instructional practice, something I used to do regularly. It also reminded me how I still am not yet able to reflect in action 100% of the time. I also thought of a book title from about ten years ago called "Learning and Forgetting"
I went a little overboard on the 80-plus powerpoint slides. What I didn't externalize at the time (I'm off the charts Intuitive and slightly Introverted) was that the process of creating a powerpoint - translating the ideas into visuals - was for my own preparation. Once I get in the room, we throw away the slides.
I really liked having "wikitation" (A wiki that you can use for a presentation) for the content See Social Media wik) The wiki worked well because it put a lot of links and some visuals as jumping off points for discussion.
I didn't really do a presentation - I tried to do an "interactive presentation" where you are involving people in a discussion. It also helped in terms of getting a sense of where people were at and facilitating some sharing of stories.
Most of the content questions were familiar, but I got a few that are still making me pause. "How much time do you spend online?" and "Should one be worried about having so much of your 'thinking outloud' and photographs on the Internet. Do we need to worry.?"
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