Need ideas for a conference game. .. where is Louise when you need her?
I feel something interactive is appropriate ...
OK puppet masters, how about people back at base set challenges (reasonable challenges and no nudity) for those attending! Prize for the challenge we enjoy doing most (we vote), prize for best solution (you vote).
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sounds good to me. i'm only going for one day so if i set a challenge on one of the days when i'm not attending, can i then vote for the same challenge to be the one i enjoyed doing most? :)
Here's a challenge: if someone can make it to the Games strand session at 11:30 on Tuesday I'd be grateful...
...and a proper challenge, google-race-stylee: who is the current chancellor of the University of Leeds? and which bank might you find him appearing on?
More challenges:
post/link to a photo of a green-white-and-yellow logo'd sandwich shop (there are loads of 'em in Leeds, I've been to at least 2 of them) on the blog, and write the date of when a band with a very similar name to the aforementioned shop are playing at Leeds University...
aahh! you think I'm not around but I'm virtually never far away. Here are some suggested challenges:
"Welcome to ALT" have photo taken with attendee who have travelled the furthest to attend.
"What's the buzz?"(daily challenge) top three most used word/phrases
"Could technology help?" best example of counter-intuitive non-use of technology (or if you prefer best example of counter-intuitive use of technology)
"Bacronymns - best and worst" pretty much what it says on the tin
OK - that will do for now, will think more in between other stuff...
Oooh! just thought of another one:
everyone from SHU attending ALT-C to "sign up" by commenting on the first post to this blog
My challenge is to get a picture next to Gilly Salmon with something salmon-related (could be the fish, the colour, or something gilly salmon-related). I may have to do my own challenge though as I will be coming tomorrow.
I have a challenge - it's for Andrew and Andrew alone - the challenge (should when he chooses to accept it, which will hopefully be sooner rather than later) is to either ring Amazon on 02070847911 or email them to find out whether they have received, despatched, delivered, stolen, lost, no knowledge of our order (LT046624) - (headsets, gekkos, wiis). I tried to do it, but they wouldn't speak to me as it's Andrew's email address on the purchase order.. even though it wasn't andrew who sent the actual order.. Sorry Andrew - but you will be rewarded in the afterlife (probably)..
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oo oo I have another one, but this one is more like a proper challenge and not a thinly veiled job for inspector Clouseau.. I want you people on the ground to gather opinion, thoughts and so on about Elluminate - you are required to earwig on peoples conversations and report back to me. For every one who brings back a valid piece of information I shall award a point, and you know what points make?! ..
Finally got a blooming connection. Thanks for comments. I will take challenges on board... back soon. (like them. Spoke to George S!!!
Chancellor: Chancellor is Melvyn Bragg (South)
richard - this might be cheating as i'm not in leeds yet and it's not my photo...but here's a picture of a subway on the headrow in leeds: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lloydspencer/526746966/
and the subways are playing on 5th October: http://www.last.fm/event/673657
Right, that's 2 points each for Andrew and Liz. (Cool photo Liz! and yes it's admissable, I did say post/link to). Anyone gonna suggest a follow-up question... ?? Something about Melvyn Bragg waering his chancellor's graduation clobber doing a South Bank Show interviewing The Subways in a branch of Subway near Leeds University campus??
yay! thanks for the points richard.
having just set myself the challenge of planning where i'm going to spend the 9-10.30 session tomorrow morning, i stumbled across a rather wordy title. which has given me an idea for another game: babble-fish. what's the wordiest and/or most incomprehensible presentation title you've ever seen? (nb: you should have attended, or be attending, the conference at which the presentation was given. but it's ok if you boycotted the session on account of the title. that's understandable.)
the wordiest (though not most incomprehensible) for me is probably: "'but i came here to study journalism!' - personal development planning: how can we encourage students from seeing pdp as a laborious artefact to that of a vehicle for true development of metacognitive and reflective skills for lifelong learning?"
how indeed...
I have met Brian's challenge (nearly):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/amid/2845238511/
I have met half of Richard's tho Liz beat me to it: http://www.flickr.com/photos/amid/2846314812/in/photostream/
I think Andrew deserves at least a point from Brian's challenge, and I'm willing to give one point for the 'Subway in Leeds station' photo
The next challenge from me was first given to Patrick Agana when he was the keynote at the LTA conference years ago (the LTA cocktail one I think) - we challenged him to use the word 'blancmange' (or was it 'icing on the cake'??? Smodge, can you remember?) in his presentation, which I'm pretty sure that he completed. So, my challenge is to insert the name of a dessert in one of your LTA-related ALT conversations with at least one person from another institution. You may need to work in pairs for verification purposes.
You may want to go for: Baked Alaska, Tiramisu, Black Forest Gateaux, Pavlova, Lemon Meringue Pie, Soufflé etc. Others admissable by judge's decision
Yes, it was marzipan :)
damnit, richard, i'd have loved to have played the desert challenge but alas belatedly picked up on this. am sure i could have convincingly mumbled "pavlov(a)'s dogs", "connectivicecreamism" or "sticky toffeedback" during one or two conversations. maybe another day...
Unlucky Liz, but your efforts have just made me laugh out loud on Level 7, and you deserve a point for them, plus I'm sure Brian will award 1 for the image of Gilly Salmon with the guy stood next to her 'holding' the fish (Photoshop? or did he really hold up a fish?), giving you a total of 4, making you the winner, although I'm thinking about deducting 1 for you saying 'dammit'. I think the nearest contender is Andrew with 2 anyway, so even with a deduction, the overall result is academic. Which is convenient.
:)
actually, i thought of another one last night too, this time in a whole sentence (though you may end up deducting points for naffness):
"well, it's been lovely talking to you about blah blah blah, but i really must dash - i need to catch up with my colleagues, and i'm sure i just spotted dick walking towards the door"
My favorite bacronym was ADDER: Assessment and Disciplines: Developing E-tivities Research
I'm not even sure the title makes sense the first time you read it.
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