Thursday, November 27, 2008
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Back from AACE eLearn2008 Las Vegas Conference
This was a real good experience and a good starting point for CURITE. I now can see where CURITE can grow and how to connect with other fellow researchers that are travelling the same road.
There so much that can be done and I'm a true believer that CURITE can grow and stretch out to mold and adapt to so many possibilities, it's just a matter of time.
I learnt a lot of do's and don'ts with presentations at this conference and would first like to share a bit about it.
Before I look like a show off, my first comment will address what I believe wasn't the best in my own presentation: I have come to really understand that adding a few more lines in the title does make a difference. Curricula in Technology - CURITE, was a hard sell for a title, it was too short and didn't quite explain what it was about. At first I didn't understand those so very long titles, and my marketing judgment interfered and had me set what I thought was a clean, short simple title... Not a good a idea! The more is said that leads to the content, the better. So next time I'll make sure to improve on that. It will probably attract a larger audience and a more participative one too.
Now, on the other hand my presentation, was what I believe to be good to outstanding. Here we were at an eLearning and technology oriented conference and most of the presentations not only were lame, but many didn't bother to follow even outdated guidelines like the rule of 7, or just simple common sense in preparing them. You had light blue backgrounds with white letters, letters too small to read and downright real busy backgrounds!! Some were just a bunch of text, nothing visual and absolutely non-attractive. I really think that if you are to make a presentation you have to take care of these details. And if the presentation is to be at a conference where the infusion of technology into learning is the issue, well I'd say that making an effort to make the best use of it should be a priority.
There so much that can be done and I'm a true believer that CURITE can grow and stretch out to mold and adapt to so many possibilities, it's just a matter of time.
I learnt a lot of do's and don'ts with presentations at this conference and would first like to share a bit about it.
Before I look like a show off, my first comment will address what I believe wasn't the best in my own presentation: I have come to really understand that adding a few more lines in the title does make a difference. Curricula in Technology - CURITE, was a hard sell for a title, it was too short and didn't quite explain what it was about. At first I didn't understand those so very long titles, and my marketing judgment interfered and had me set what I thought was a clean, short simple title... Not a good a idea! The more is said that leads to the content, the better. So next time I'll make sure to improve on that. It will probably attract a larger audience and a more participative one too.
Now, on the other hand my presentation, was what I believe to be good to outstanding. Here we were at an eLearning and technology oriented conference and most of the presentations not only were lame, but many didn't bother to follow even outdated guidelines like the rule of 7, or just simple common sense in preparing them. You had light blue backgrounds with white letters, letters too small to read and downright real busy backgrounds!! Some were just a bunch of text, nothing visual and absolutely non-attractive. I really think that if you are to make a presentation you have to take care of these details. And if the presentation is to be at a conference where the infusion of technology into learning is the issue, well I'd say that making an effort to make the best use of it should be a priority.
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