Instead of the usual best of and worst of... some snapshots to give you a feel for our ordeal.
The conference centre was huge – Educause was at one end of the centre, my hotel at the other, I took the bus which took 10 minutes. The walk to Louise’s hotel, adjacent to the centre took a good 15-20 minutes, by which time the scale of the place made you feel a bit freaky deaky as in “Honey I shrunk the Conventioneers!”
One of the speakers said he realised how different this generation were when his son told him that at his dorm at a US university, he receives an SMS telling him his laundry is dry.
One of the speakers: “I’d appreciate it if you didn’t take that picture sir without asking my permission.” Loads of delegates just took a picture of your session or your poster, like that’s really engaging isn’t it (in every sense), next time I am going to say what the speaker said.
“In god we trust, all others bring data” – attributed to the Margaret Spellings US Secretary of State for Education, hence the obsession with assessment.
“Digital Fluency is the new liberal art” – a throwaway, but possibly true
“Our reach exceeds our grasp – IT touches everything” how true, how worrying.
Participants were unusually interruptive this year, there seems a new breed of folk who sit near the front, ask their question as soon as they can, then stomp off to another session, no doubt to repeat this bad behaviour.
And a couple of obscure ones:
I had never heard of Mark Tansey, but one of the speakers put up this picture to illustrate what quality assurance in HE looks like:
Kids on planes bad enough, but beware air transport on Halloween if you are at all coulrophobic
Ordeal? Dinner with three scousers? Two of whom order a steak with crabmeat on top??? Calm down, calm down, we are not paying...
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