First Event at Storming the Academy<\/p><\/div>\n

The Side Table<\/h3>\n

I think we learned that there is such a thing as over planning. The side table schedule was a bust. During the first event it was swallowed by everyone who wanted to participate in Anne Balsamo’s session on minority voices in tag clouds. This also made our low-tech social network inaccessible (can you find them, and us in the picture to the left?).<\/p>\n

I will take responsibility and acknowledge that my actions, insisting that the table stay inside the tent so our technology wasn’t an easy target for pick pockets (there were a couple of big robberies at the event) might have had something to do with this failure. At the same time, allowing Future Class students the ability to freely participate in the Storming the Academy events added a unique voice. Cathy pointed out on numerous occasions that “our tent was the only tent with actual students”. \u00a0Had we been outside we literally would not have been part of the tent. \u00a0We were more engaged as participants by giving our input than we would have been had we stuck with the rigid structured schedule we set up.<\/p>\n

Solution and Outcome for a Failed Plan<\/h3>\n

Anything that needed to be covered by the side table was incorporated into the main tent events. Everyone who was supposed to present and engage an audience had the opportunity to do so. The solution, incorporating the class fullt in to the tent, was a positive thing because it also meant that Future class members who presented also had the main tent activity leaders as part their audience to provide feedback and mentor in real time.<\/p>\n

The side table ended up downgraded (or upgraded) to an information post about Future Class and HASTAC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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