I love what you wrote about presentations and hierarchy. I'm very sorry I missed this conference. I started my AFK (mostly) Sabbatical on the Super New Moon which was also my birthday (3/29). My life is a wreck right now (physically) and I have to get a handle on it. I'm keenly interested in this 2D experience as you know since I started a Second Life account just to visit you. =) I hope to be back, at least a bit more, in a few months. Healing is a lot of work, but the journey is joyous.
It was live-streamed to YouTube but I don’t know if the conference organizers are going to make the recordings public. BUT…(drumroll please), I recreated the whole presentation on my website because I was afraid they wouldn’t save it. Sooooo….you will be first to see it. I will do a proper post tomorrow. It’s been a long day. Let me know what you think :-)
‘I’m not big on conferences - mostly because I don’t like having to sit and listen while speakers confer information on me. It reminds me too much of the lecture halls in college and more recently of the online trainings I’ve had to endure at companies. Employers seem to think that being able to click and move colored shapes or listen to an animated figure ask a question while it walks across the screen constitutes interactive learning. What they don’t seem to realize is that human brains do not operate like computer hard drives. Simply dropping data into them (even if it’s cute, brightly colored, animated data) doesn’t ensure that it will be retained. More to the point, memorizing data doesn’t teach the brain how to use it.’
Yes, yes, yes.
I typically daydreamed or fell asleep in many if not most of my college lectures. Yet, most people who know me think I’m highly educated. I tell them most of my real education was born out of a rapacious curiosity that led me to learn on my own, what I wanted to learn and how I wanted to learn it. This process involves thinking, reflection and always retaining skeptical doubt. It never involve memorization of so-called facts, dates or other things that universities try to convince one is being educated.
Freshman psych was in auditorium with around 1,000 students. Not great for learning but good for dozing. Many lectures in chemistry and math only saw the back of the professor’s head as he—mostly men—or she scribbled on a whiteboard.
How exciting. Perhaps starting your presentation with exactly what you have talked about here, the reluctance to confer information on others and the understanding of having information conferred upon youm and where in the middle will you fall in order to present...a good Segway into your topic of being in the middle.
I love what you wrote about presentations and hierarchy. I'm very sorry I missed this conference. I started my AFK (mostly) Sabbatical on the Super New Moon which was also my birthday (3/29). My life is a wreck right now (physically) and I have to get a handle on it. I'm keenly interested in this 2D experience as you know since I started a Second Life account just to visit you. =) I hope to be back, at least a bit more, in a few months. Healing is a lot of work, but the journey is joyous.
I thought for some reason these were going to be on UTUBE! I was wrong! Ugh! 😮💨
It was live-streamed to YouTube but I don’t know if the conference organizers are going to make the recordings public. BUT…(drumroll please), I recreated the whole presentation on my website because I was afraid they wouldn’t save it. Sooooo….you will be first to see it. I will do a proper post tomorrow. It’s been a long day. Let me know what you think :-)
https://www.dreamingwideawake.org/the-presentatioin
Very cool, Jena!
Thank you. It should be fun, and I’m looking forward to showing those who have never set foot in a virtual world story how powerful they can be.
‘I’m not big on conferences - mostly because I don’t like having to sit and listen while speakers confer information on me. It reminds me too much of the lecture halls in college and more recently of the online trainings I’ve had to endure at companies. Employers seem to think that being able to click and move colored shapes or listen to an animated figure ask a question while it walks across the screen constitutes interactive learning. What they don’t seem to realize is that human brains do not operate like computer hard drives. Simply dropping data into them (even if it’s cute, brightly colored, animated data) doesn’t ensure that it will be retained. More to the point, memorizing data doesn’t teach the brain how to use it.’
Yes, yes, yes.
I typically daydreamed or fell asleep in many if not most of my college lectures. Yet, most people who know me think I’m highly educated. I tell them most of my real education was born out of a rapacious curiosity that led me to learn on my own, what I wanted to learn and how I wanted to learn it. This process involves thinking, reflection and always retaining skeptical doubt. It never involve memorization of so-called facts, dates or other things that universities try to convince one is being educated.
Freshman psych was in auditorium with around 1,000 students. Not great for learning but good for dozing. Many lectures in chemistry and math only saw the back of the professor’s head as he—mostly men—or she scribbled on a whiteboard.
How exciting. Perhaps starting your presentation with exactly what you have talked about here, the reluctance to confer information on others and the understanding of having information conferred upon youm and where in the middle will you fall in order to present...a good Segway into your topic of being in the middle.
Yes, thank you Kimberly. I can hardly wait to share this with you.