words for the graphic in the previous post...

On Friday, February 6, Jody and Anne got a truly sparkling hour and half to sit and talk in the corner of a good coffeeshop in Milwaukee. The notes in the graphic are Anne's notes.

Here's a different presentation of those notes, in the rough order of the pages (which means that the notes do not hold together into a narrative):

0) How do we have our presentation not just be about looking back, but about looking back to see possibilities for the future?

1) Given the time and place of our talk, we won't have huge set up time. Can we make the setup part of our performance? How might we do this?

2) How to collect feedback/reflection from people who go through our presentation? A table of notebooks for writing, after people have seen all our "stations"? A feedback sheet people could deposit in a box in the book display?

3) Do we want some sort of voiceover going on during the whole thing, some voice that would give context?

4) Do we want to set aside some time, toward the end of our alloted hour-and-fifteen, for a "regular" Q&A?

5) Anne is going to have some *big* printouts of some static visualizations to hang on the walls, with ways for people to mark up and add their stories or observations to at least some of them. (She is also still planning on a video to project and an interactive piece on the computer.)

6) Do we want to make a handout/map/brochure that gives people context for our presentation (something along the line of our proposal) but that fleshes it out a bit, suggests orders for seeing our different pieces (and describes what we would have done with endless time and resources), and requests feedback? Do we want to have helpers in the room, to hand out these maps/brochures and give guidance?

7) Jody is thinking of doing something with the different metaphors and key terms in the catalogues: youth/development; ejaculation; gender; process/postprocess; HS:college; student classifications into basic, remedial, advanced, etc.

8) How do foreground the relations between process and data, so that the data do not seem so fixed and final?

9) How do we "capture" who is in the room for later? Is there a "station" where people can take and annotate pictures of themselves, or add to this blog, or...?

10) Do we want to send invitations to people, to give them a heads up to what we are doing?


TO-DOs:
1) Find out who is in the room before us, and warn them that we will be coming in at the minute their presentation is over, in order to set up. We won't get in the way of any continuing conversations, but that we need the set up time and will be quiet.

2) At the conference, we check out the room the day before (I'll be there on Wednesday) and then find some time to talk -- f2f or chatting or phone -- to catch up on any last minute adjustments.

3) Find a few people to help with set up? And/or find a few friends to keep people outside until we are ready? (While they are waiting, we could give them the brochure/map/explanation that's described above?)

4) Figure out who is bringing what technology, so we know if we have enough -- or need to borrow some from Bay Area folks.