plan my pilot exhibition

Didn’t do too much of this due to hospitalisation!

The planning is done now, really. And most of the preparation apart from recording the podcast, polishing the pages and improving the wiki.

I’ve also tentatively begun looking for volunteers to test pilot for me with the hope of also finding potential collaborators, so this is the awkward part now. Watch me get more and more desperate as time continues to pass with no responses!

Wait – I should be more positive:

If you are reading this and would like to be one of a small group of people invited to be part of my pilot exhibition, then I would be eternally grateful. Please leave a comment below and I’ll be in touch very soon, or you can contact me by email on aroberts@gmail.com. Lovely.

So far I have merged two November to do lists into one and created a pilot planning list.

In the pilot planning one I’ve targeted some people, some groups and identified a purpose and a some tasks I need to perform.

Well it’s a start.

Monday of next week.

What?

Printed and backed to go on display board.

1 screen shot of links page

4 screen shots of Classroom Displays Archive

2 screen shots of the Hansel and Gretel page

3 Screen shots of Practical Literacy

The urls

2 quotes from literature

2 quotes about H&G

2 quotes from last year’s children’s voice conference.

So what?

• some quotes from S’s log sheet about problems with web sites

• single sentence explanations: blog with comments, wiki,

• some quotes about web 2.0 – connectivism? Wils?

• screen shots of teacher’s blogs with comments

• screen shots of behaviour management wiki pages plus
explanation

Now What?
Diagram of action research spiral

Short paragraph of explanation of process

Description of proposed changes to resources – mock up screen shots of changes

Screen shot On-line pilot Exhibition with explanation of comments space.

Something with the urls on it for people to take away.

I’ve almost got the physical exhibition sorted out. All I need now is some data! That should have been gathered last week and analysed this but hey ho! Hopefully I’ll have some completed log sheets and a couple of photos by Friday morning. I’ve got two short semi-structured interviews to analyse – so that will keep me busy. Then I need to think about the on-line pilot exhibition and if I can get the blog to accept posts direct from Flickr.

Ok so small is beautiful. No bigger than a small blackboard, Jane D says. The space I’m going to use for the physical one is one section of the notice board at work for one Friday in mid November. I’ll put some nice nibbles out at lunch time, put up a sign asking for people to fill in my feedback sheets and leave them with a container of cheap pens (which will vanish I expect!) next to a bowl of nice sweets.
I will also interview two or three people to get more detailed feedback.
I might try a very short presentation to a very small audience. I’ll use my on-line pilot if I can access it to do this. Sudden thought I wonder if my mac will connect up with the yr 3 whiteboard? That would let me do it in there rather than in the IT suite. Need to find out next week!

My opportunity may have presented itself for this – more to follow when Ihave had time to reflect…