Libjam … am I going to regret this?
I’ve been practising my presentation for the Libjam session at the Library 2.0 and beyond: getting our hands dirty unconference on Friday.
To give people time to write the program up on the wiki, and to get the energy level pumping, we decided to schedule a Libjam after we had set the topics for the day. The Libjam is a chance for people to talk about what they are doing in their libraries to get their hands dirty with Library 2.0. In. Just. Three. Minutes.
It sounded like a piece of cake, and like a good idea at the time we proposed it.
After trying to yell, talk twice my regular speed and cut half my slides - yes, I’m dumb enough to try to use Powerpoint - to pack it all into three minutes, I’m coming to terms with how hard it is to say *anything* in just three minutes.
When I watched people at the Webjam Perth last year, they seemed to fit so much information into their presentations, and some of them even seemed calm about it all. I’ve gone back and watched some of the videos of the evening and am now really in awe of them .
One thing is for sure, it will be an adrenaline filled presentation. Not sure it will be intelligible. Maybe a pecha kucha would be a little less stressful ?
From the Libjam topics currently on the wiki, it looks like everyone else will be as stretched as I will be to smoosh it all into three minutes too. Wonder how strict we should be with the “exactly three minutes” thing? Much more of an arena sport (think Christians and Lions) if we stick to it. May the games commence!
- Murdoch University Library - web presence project
- Edith Cowan University - our learning 2.0 curve
- What happened since my last unconference - Hoi (really love to hear about YOUR stories too!!)
- DPI - effectively encouraging / promoting the use of Web 2.0 applications
- Curtin University Library - the story of a library blog
- SLWA Blog & wiki proliferation - any & all from SLWA
- Health Dept. - A Wiki as a collabrative tool in the Health Library network
- Water Corporation - promoting the library with a Library Toolbar
Though I think...
any chance you can bumb it to 5 minutes? If all else fails maybe practice talking with a teenage girl, of course then no one else will be able to understand you
good luck!
I recently organised a staff session where anyone with something to talk about got 3-4 minutes to talk — that was the theory; fortunately we had a smaller turnout than I’d originally hoped as it was really easy to go overtime, and I wasn’t disciplined enough myself to cut anyone short, and people were inclined to interrupt with questions. Anyway all went well even if not completely as planned.
Kosana and I are doing ours as a story and each telling bits of it - we’re being strict with ourselves and are aiming for 3 minutes, and might even come in under time!
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