First keynote address--
presenter: Jill Chivers [check her out www.jillchivers.com ]
topic: Don’t Put me In A Box: Life Lessons from the Land of Type
presenter: Jill Chivers [check her out www.jillchivers.com ]
topic: Don’t Put me In A Box: Life Lessons from the Land of Type
We went into the room and I asked Mike where he wanted to sit. He led me to a table—“ACK!!!! Butcher paper and felt tip pens!” Immediate crescendo in stress response to crisis level… okay that’s exaggeration. I only groaned inwardly. Butcher paper is one of the ‘stressors that get me spinning’—at about the same level as “let’s go around the circle and share.” What a waste of worry! |
Jill told us:
I liked the clear and organised way she started and the dynamic entertaining way she continued.
Point 3: “Remember that people like to explore … and to play”
I grabbed the butcher paper and pens! [Nobody seemed to mind my commandeering them!] I love going on physical ‘explores’ of the country, on internet ‘explores’ to find out things; and I like to ‘play’ with words and ideas.
“Ex” means ‘outward’; thus ‘explore’, ‘expand’, ‘explain’, ‘excite’, ‘explode’! To me “ex” implies movement and vitality.
I wrote “E – X – P – L – O – R – E” on the paper and made the X into a stylised compass to express outward movement in all directions and the O into a spinning globe to express the continual and inclusive nature of this movement.
I personally enjoy the explosion of ‘aha!’ moments that often come in my ‘explores’. And I love fireworks [in the pyrotechnic sense]—so my X would be a starburst and the O a pinwheel.
This picture is what happened when I played on my computer to create a digitalised drawing.
- what she was going to do—present certain key concepts and;
- what we had to do—when she was covering each of 12 points people at the table whose butcher paper was labelled with the appropriate number were to précis what she said.
- Towards the end of the session what was recorded on these papers would be used to review and consolidate her presentation.
I liked the clear and organised way she started and the dynamic entertaining way she continued.
Point 3: “Remember that people like to explore … and to play”
I grabbed the butcher paper and pens! [Nobody seemed to mind my commandeering them!] I love going on physical ‘explores’ of the country, on internet ‘explores’ to find out things; and I like to ‘play’ with words and ideas.
“Ex” means ‘outward’; thus ‘explore’, ‘expand’, ‘explain’, ‘excite’, ‘explode’! To me “ex” implies movement and vitality.
I wrote “E – X – P – L – O – R – E” on the paper and made the X into a stylised compass to express outward movement in all directions and the O into a spinning globe to express the continual and inclusive nature of this movement.
I personally enjoy the explosion of ‘aha!’ moments that often come in my ‘explores’. And I love fireworks [in the pyrotechnic sense]—so my X would be a starburst and the O a pinwheel.
This picture is what happened when I played on my computer to create a digitalised drawing.
Jill’s 11 other points? Sorry. I didn’t take notes.