Comments on: Internet2 Dogtation http://cogdogblog.com/2008/04/23/internet2-dogtation/ Alan Levine's blog space for barking about instructional technology Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:37:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: George http://cogdogblog.com/2008/04/23/internet2-dogtation/#comment-55500 George Thu, 01 May 2008 15:39:26 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2008/04/23/internet2-dogtation/#comment-55500 Thanks Alan! You were the hit of the event. It really was great fun. What you might not know is that you were on one screen and the sldes (if any) were on another screen. So, when some of the people in the session joined us in the Research Area in SL they were seen wandering around. Also, text chats caught the eye of folks. So, there was a fun dynamic in the room building before you began your DogTation. It really was a big hit and demonstrated what can be done to link RL with SL in a meeting like ours. We really appreciate your sacrifice of sleep time. -- George Thanks Alan! You were the hit of the event. It really was great fun. What you might not know is that you were on one screen and the sldes (if any) were on another screen. So, when some of the people in the session joined us in the Research Area in SL they were seen wandering around. Also, text chats caught the eye of folks. So, there was a fun dynamic in the room building before you began your DogTation. It really was a big hit and demonstrated what can be done to link RL with SL in a meeting like ours.

We really appreciate your sacrifice of sleep time.

– George

]]> By: Susan http://cogdogblog.com/2008/04/23/internet2-dogtation/#comment-55420 Susan Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:50:26 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2008/04/23/internet2-dogtation/#comment-55420 I'm with you, Alan! Lately I've been trying to use slides only for graphics that supplement a presentation--no words allowed on the slides. If I have to put words on the slide, I need to rethink my presentation. At some point I realized that reading the words off of the slide was similar to "reading a paper" at a conference--a practice I have long despised. Except that with reading slides, it's almost like you're reading a paper that everyone has a copy of and can read along with you--arguably even more of a waste of time. I’m with you, Alan! Lately I’ve been trying to use slides only for graphics that supplement a presentation–no words allowed on the slides. If I have to put words on the slide, I need to rethink my presentation. At some point I realized that reading the words off of the slide was similar to “reading a paper” at a conference–a practice I have long despised. Except that with reading slides, it’s almost like you’re reading a paper that everyone has a copy of and can read along with you–arguably even more of a waste of time.

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