Narrative and Interactive Learning Environments conference in Edinburgh 8-11 August 2006. Finally, I get round to blogging about my first academic conference as a research student.<\/p>\n
It must be said that this wasn’t the most obvious choice, even though interactive learning environments are my subject area. Narratives is a bit left field for me, but it looked fun, and it was in Edinburgh when the festival was on, and it happened to be in a week when I already had childcare sorted. Also, it looked kind of quirky, which appealed to me.<\/p>\n
General thoughts? Should have taken the laptop, then I could have blogged as the conference went on. Kept thinking of things I wanted to blog, and I’ve ended up saving them for a couple of weeks till I’m back at the computer at work. Must take the password for this blog home with me \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Great idea to go to Edinburgh during festival week, though it would have been more sensible to arrange to stay for a couple more days and get the benefit – we kept rushing past exciting events without ever really connecting.<\/p>\n
Narratives. Not really my thing. They seem to be all over the place and very few people had bothered to define them. I think there’ more to narratives than linking a few things together, but obviously other people disagree.<\/p>\n
Giving papers. Always give a paper at a conference. Unless, you’re so well known that everyone knows who you are and what you’re working on. Otherwise you have to explain your work umpteen times, and keep wearing the name badge.<\/p>\n
Networking. Met a lot of interesting people, but it would have been more useful to meet a few who were roughly in the same ball park as me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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