Book dating 2012
Book dating is an ideas fair during three lectures when everyone will get an opportunity to lead an exchange of ideas around their book. In turn, you’ll each be responsible for such an “ideas table” during half an hour, with five tables working at the same time. All the other students who are not animating a table can choose the table that suits their interest best so that, at the end of the three weeks each of you will have lead one exchange table and attended the others, as everyone has to attend each of the three weeks, **not** just the week when you’re giving your own exchange.
Leading an ideas table for half an hour means being prepared to keep your audience (the students who have chosen to attend your exchange) active around your reading for half an hour: discussing, asking questions, reacting, agreeing, disagreeing, answering a poll, playing a game, suggesting ideas, brainstorming, criticizing, inventing examples and counterexamples… . This means much more than just summarizing your book; it means making your book relevant, or abstracts from it, or some of the author’s ideas, or a campaign that illustrates it… or whatever you feel useful to make your audience actively interested. In a word, it means keeping your audience ***engaged*** – book dating, in short!
To prepare this, I’ll ask you to post your corrected abstract on the LIVErtising Forum, for your colleagues.
I hope this answers the questions you had about this. If not… comment! Let me add I am eager to start book dating with you!
Update February 27: here is the timetable, so you can organise your work. I insist: everyone must attend all sessions, not just when you are animating your exchange:
Feb 27, 2012 @ 10:30:45
Hello Nicolas – thank you for your question – you have the right links, and should post your corrected abstract on the Bravenet Forum – there may be the need to divide it in three parts (which you name 1/3, 2/3 and 3/3) if it is too long.
During the book dating session, as we’ll be sitting around tables, the only source you have is your own laptop.
All right? Let me know.
Feb 26, 2012 @ 09:37:25
Sir, can you tell me if the forum link you give us, is correct ? Because, I keep on being redirected to an inexistent page (btw I tried once before and I ended up on a forum page named something like pub21.bravenet, but now nothing working).
I actually needed the access to the forum page to ask you a convenient question. Do we have a projector or something during our book dating session ? How does it work if we want to screen a video or a PPT in the background ?
Thank you for your reply.
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Mar 23, 2010 @ 17:52:12
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