I discovered this great animation on Twitter, my good colleague Bill Boyd had ReTweeted it. I’m currently training for a half marathon and each time I run I go through a journey, ups and downs, weather, mental walls and good music to keep me going.
This wonderful animation appears to be sponsored by Nike and quite honestly, I can say that my Nike iPod plus has got me through some tough runs, so I have an appreciation of the sports company.
The genius work of James Jarvis and his animation site can be located here, another reason why I found it so enjoyable was it reminded me of childhood books like Jan Pienknowski, Richard Scarry and maybe a little bit of Dr Seuss.
One thing I thought I should write about is ‘good housekeeping’, you know the drill, where the loos are, fire exits, what time we’ll finish, turn your mobile phone to silent…’ Maybe some folk mention other things but usually someone stands up and covers the aforementioned.
Today, as I have done for a few events I’ve attended recently I’ve been doing some live micro-blogging via Twitter. At the recently wonderful event I attended on Islay (more about that later too) quite of a few folk were live tweeting, and humerous observations were made about the growing number of iPhones and mobile devices popping up during speaker’s presentations and across the whole event.
So my thoughts for future housekeeping and using interactive media includes the following..
Let people know the arrangements for internet access including wifi.
Let people know that it’s okay or not to ask questions during the presentation, record audio or take pictures.
Why not ask if people if they are going to be twittering / blogging and suggest or agree a hashtag that any feedback / thoughts can be collated using searches?
Until these points are covered in the domestic arrangements by the organiser, I would really recommend that you make it known that you would like to record the event by blogging / twittering and ask if it’s okay to do that.
I think that it is vital to create the right conditions for all events as we would do in any learning environments and that goes for the presenters as well as the delegates who might just think you are checking your emails or texting about something else instead of sharing live your (hopefully) rich learning experiences with the world.
Louise Jones is the Health & Wellbeing Subject Supporter for The Highland Council, Education Culture and Sport Service and NHS Highland, Department of Public Health.
