Comments on: What’s plan B? http://virtualbreath.net/curious/2009/04/13/whats-plan-b/ Little and big things that make me wonder Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:08:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Steve Wheeler http://virtualbreath.net/curious/2009/04/13/whats-plan-b/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Steve Wheeler Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:26:21 +0000 http://virtualbreath.net/curious/?p=213#comment-41 This is a very good question Kristina, and normally, when I teach or present in face-to-face situations, this is not too difficult to answer, because I would simply turn to another method of presentation, or another activity for the students to take part in. In an online situation, where the presenter can be thousands of miles away, it is not so easy to solve the problem of technology failure. My plan B for last week's Educamp Elluminate presentation failure was to do two things. Immediately, as you have indicated above, I wrote a blog post and shared it with both the audience that was at Educamp, and anyone else who was interested through my social networks. Secondly, earlier today I presented my talk to Educamp using an alternative online technology - Skype. This time it worked and the subsequent discussion was very useful. Thanks for asking the question Kristina - it needs to be addressed. :-) This is a very good question Kristina, and normally, when I teach or present in face-to-face situations, this is not too difficult to answer, because I would simply turn to another method of presentation, or another activity for the students to take part in. In an online situation, where the presenter can be thousands of miles away, it is not so easy to solve the problem of technology failure.

My plan B for last week’s Educamp Elluminate presentation failure was to do two things. Immediately, as you have indicated above, I wrote a blog post and shared it with both the audience that was at Educamp, and anyone else who was interested through my social networks.

Secondly, earlier today I presented my talk to Educamp using an alternative online technology – Skype. This time it worked and the subsequent discussion was very useful.

Thanks for asking the question Kristina – it needs to be addressed. :-)

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