Take your mind back to 25 July… a wet, grey day. This was the day the Strategic and Service Development team had our “DigiQuest” away day, although we didn’t go very far as we held
it in Digilab. Forget your flipcharts, brainstorming and post-its, this was an awayday with a difference. It had gadgets and gekos, pink pigs and pictures and most important of all caches with stashes and prizes!
There was a serious point of the day, which was getting to grips with the emerging technologies we’ve got in Digilab. The theme for the day was “Navigation”, and SSDG was divided into 4 teams to explore navigation within a specific context:
- Mobile learning ,
- Virtual immersive,
- World Gaming ,
- User generated content.
Well the Garmin geko is the GPS device we used on our geocache treasure hunt. We had to solve clues to find an expert to interview on our subject, and further clues to find tokens stashed in caches which were cunningly hidden around campus by other members of Library staff. It wasn’t as easy as it sounds . The pictures we took using the various devices we had – smart phones
& digital cameras, and we also used the devices to record the interviews. This all had to be put
together into a presentation in the afternoon. However, to further challenge us we had to create our presentations on the macs in Digilab, using Keynote software and include images and audio from the day. Overall we met the challenge and actually had quite a few laughs on the way. Perhaps what was most revealing was learning more about the team.
Lets not forget the pink pigs...
the lovely sweets that we all gromphed to keep the adrenalin running.
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