Interactivity in the Sessions...
From:
Seth Wagoner
Date:
2007 Sep 06 21:16 UTC
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Hi John,
Great thinking! It all sounds really good but not sure if we can
manage much of that on short notice. We'll be doing a planning session
on what to do for a weekend-based BarCampChristchurch2, and we'll
definitely put down some of those as options!
Cheers,
Seth.
John Carter wrote:
> I was just reading...
> http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2006/how-to-run-a-great-unconference-session/
> and had a wee grue.
>
> I don't know what you guys have planned, but I suspect a series of
> lightly prepared powerpoint talks is not how to make this sort of
> thing fly. But looking at the "topics" list it looks mostly stand and
> talk at people.
>
> To make this thing fly we probably need more interact type sessions.
>
> Discussions / debates / panels?
>
> Coding races?
>
> Games?
>
> Code reading (print out some chunk of OSS code, review, critique
> design, learn from it, code up fixes, submit)
>
> Exquisite corpse for coders. Not knowing what the task is, each
> participant adds an element to the pipeline.
>
> Activism - pick in the something in the universe that pisses off a
> sizable portion of attendees, do a single small concrete thing about
> it.
>
> Pair program teams to perform program visualization.
>
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