{"id":58,"date":"2008-02-13T09:35:26","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T09:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/?p=58"},"modified":"2008-06-27T10:57:57","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T10:57:57","slug":"your-project-sounds-fascinating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/your-project-sounds-fascinating\/","title":{"rendered":"Your project sounds fascinating&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back in York for another two-day project meeting (different <a href=\"http:\/\/www.celt.mmu.ac.uk\/pathfinder\/\" target=\"_blank\">project<\/a> this time). Yesterday we had to sit through a presentation from each project at the meeting. All 28 of them. Fair enough, each had only 5 minutes and one PowerPoint slide, but three-and-a-half hours later I was dreaming of having hot knives shoved under my fingernails to end the tedium.<\/p>\n<p>Why is it that in a profession that espouses active, experiental and engaging learning, we still have conferences and meetings full of exposition with text-laden PowerPoint? There&#8217;s got to be another way, I&#8217;m just not sure what it is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Terry Mayes <a href=\"http:\/\/elearning.heacademy.ac.uk\/weblogs\/pathfinder\/?p=153#more-153\" target=\"_blank\">blogged in a similar vein <\/a>about the ASCILITE conference (see that final paragraph of the post).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back in York for another two-day project meeting (different project this time). Yesterday we had to sit through a presentation from each project at the meeting. All 28 of them. Fair enough, each had only 5 minutes and one&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/your-project-sounds-fascinating\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","category-thoughts","tag-pathfinder"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71sY0-W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}