--Originally published at Max's Blog Semana i
My day just started fine, in fact I’m feeling much better and I’m almost cured from my cold. I feel more powerful and even more motivated than on the previous days, yet I’m not as full of power as our lecturer Ken. (which in my opinion is impossible) The class today started off with a short Youtube-Video, directly after we continued again with some guest speakers, that were connected via Video conference to us.
The guest speakers for today consisted of Autumm Caines, Bonnie Stewart, Sundi Richard. After a brief introduction of every guest speaker, we continued with a presentation of Bonnie Stewart, where she talked about presence. She explained us how presence is being created, why it is important and how presence differs in the digital world from our ,,real world”. In connection to this, she told us about the difference between a visitor and a resident, I regarded Bonnie’s presentation as very interesting.
Our 3 guest speakers:
Autumm Caines
Sundi Richard
Bonnie Stewart
After Bonnie’s presentation, Sundi Richard and Autumm Caines continued to speak and tied on Bonnie’s presentation. To be honest, the presentation got a bit messy at this point, as I lost the overview, and I was not able to follow the content unmitigated anymore. After aproximately 40minutes of listening to our 3 guest speakers, we stopped the live video conversation, in order to dedicate more time to other activities.
These activities consisted of creating our own visitor/resident – personal/professional framework maps, our guest speakers talked about and explained to us. We spent about 40 additional minutes on this activity, including the discussion about our outcomes. I regarded this activity as pretty useful, in fact it helped us understanding the stuff our guest speakers were talking about.
After we finished this activity, we were set free to go home or to interview a classmate we did not know so far. I have choosen the second option. ( to interview someone I did not know before in the room) This interview was quite fun, as I picked a Mexican classmate and I decided to do the interview in Spanish.( at least I tried) At this point I would like to upload the interview with my Mexican classmate, but as it contains personal information and I did not ask for the permission to upload it here, I will not insert it on my Blog right now, sorry :(((.
As always, I really enjoyed the Video conversation with our guest speakers and the content they were talking about, nevertheless I considered the video conference as a little bit ”unstructured”. For me personally, it was often difficult to focus on the presentation and to follow the content, as the permanent screen switching, screen sharing, the fade in of documents and the mapping activity confused me a lot, it gave me a hard time to understand everything completely. Nevertheless, it was another awesome day of semana i with some nice experiences, today we finished about an hour earlier as usual, which was nice as well.
Great day, looking forward to tomorrow, and as always: STAY TUNED!
