Yesterday I presented the Sticky Content 'point of view' along with the first airing of the preliminary research results. I went up the day before and went to a few breakout sessions.
The delegates were primarily learning technologists from Universities around the UK and Europe, and hoard of Blackboard employees who flew in from the US.I have to say, we pretty much nailed it! We were in the main theatre right after a keynote session which had all the delegates in it. Although there were 4 competing breakout sessions when ours was on, the room was half full which means we got the lion's share of the delegates - about 100 I'd say. Rob did a good job of promoting it - Tweeting them all in the break!
Everyone had used the Powerpoint template for their sessions - we had a sneaky Prezi - the first view looked like the title slide of the standard deck, and then we whizzed off. Rob did the intro and then I took over, spoke for around 20 minutes.
A new experience for me - the delgates were Tweeting about what I was saying while I was still presenting. The benefit of there being two of us was that Rob was monitoring the Tweets, and responded to them at the end of the presentation and before we went on to questions.
We got lots of very positive feedback, requests to see my research paper (better write one then), requests to get access to the sticky sites.
I was impressed by seeing Twitter in action - hadn't really seen the point before. Seriously considering setting up a #tag for my modules next year.... brave step to let them Tweet. Should I fight the tide or embrace the students' mobile technology & use it to my advantage instead?
So all in all, a very positive experience. We did a good job I think, and it reinforced the value of the research project which is exciting. Tweets below:
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