the little doors on the end of each row must have seemed like a great idea at the time ("i know, to save students disturbing the lecture by walking across the front, let's put doors on the end of each row"). except, of course, the person who walks through the end of row door sits right next to it. so when someone else wants to get in, you start playing some bizarre, twisted game of musical chairs where everyone has to shuffle across. and really, the doors are designed so that anyone over 6 stone in weight and carrying something larger than an envelope is almost guaranteed to get stuck in them. so instead of having people quietly sneaking in, you get 15 individual doors banging, 15 sets of whispering, and 15 games of musical chairs going on. wait 5 minutes, and repeat. genius! possibly *the* most counter-intuitive design i've seen.on the subject of lecture theatres, this is for anyone who thinks students writing notes = concentrating on lecture, and that students having internet access = not concentrating on lecture:
(also, i'm fairly certain that making your own sudoku grids is cheating?)this one is for smodge (check the last comment):
this one is a candid moment in the promo for next year's conference, for brian [i know you said it had to be a salmon, but...]:
and then after the keynote (which was great, btw) and the questions, and the questions from the people via elluminate, and the thanks for the people in the auditorium, and the thanks to the people who joined via elluminate, and the plug for next year's conference, and the thanks to the people who gave the plug for next years conference, and the thanks to the university of leeds...we were then shown photos of the lovely people at alt who we had to thank too:
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Thanks so much for the pictures of the Roger Stevens lecture theatre. It looks a Hell of a lot brighter than I recall. Students, prison, brave new world. Did you see the one that still had the shackles in place? Everyone was in hysterics whenever we went in. What were they thinking? Useful as a charicature of the sacred room to make points in discussions on learning spaces for sure.
You were meant to be in Brian's pic challenge - I win that one I think.
cheers andrew - the lecture theatres were bizarre, weren't they? i was just overwhelmed at the awfulness - so the fact that they'd scheduled the conference for the same time as the drilling of many walls convention creased me up.
and don't worry, i won't haggle for points for the professor gilly photo, although technically brian's challenge was to "get a picture next to gilly salmon" - the words "get a picture of yourself" were never mentioned. pedantic? hell yes :)
Andrew's photo seems to be missing a salmon-related thing from what I could tell.
Liz, I do like the clownfish however...
I think you both get points for that one.
Those lecture theatres were pretty awful. I think the drilling was further compounded by the fact that all the toilets were what was being drilled, meaning there were hardly any toilets open.
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