Here are the links again, I didn't know they get messed up in the process (at least on the website):
*http://tinyurl.com/qejr7j* <http://tinyurl.com/qejr7j> *http://tinyurl.com/o7nerh* <http://tinyurl.com/o7nerh> Sorry about this. Sebi On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Sebi Tauciuc <stauc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > This is for whoever is interested. Just had a small session with some kids > for a library project here in Sweden, and here are the results: > http://sergiutauciuc.ro/en/portfolio/huskvarna-library/Meeting-the-kids.png(mindmap > - recommended) > > http://sergiutauciuc.ro/en/portfolio/huskvarna-library/Notes-first-meeting-children-S%f6derg%e5rdsskolan.pdf(text) > > My reflections on the process: > - 'School mode' > the children came straight from school, brought by their teacher. They were > in 'school mode', and much more willing to answer questions (boring!) than > kids contacted in their free time (which was a totally different > experience). If you want kids to behave, find them in school! > - Language > I was speaking (mostly) in English, they were mainly Swedish speakers. We > had someone to translate, and someone else to take notes. > However, a few of them could speak English very well, and spoke to me in > English. All fine, except it made the others think they should be speaking > in English too. And since they couldn't speak English well, they were > reluctant to speak at all. We had to insist that Swedish is perfectly fine > for us, and I even spoke in Swedish a few times (I'm just learning) to > convey the message. > - food helped (thanks again Maggie Reilly) > - starting the session with 'what do you do to have fun' worked well. > > Hope this helps someone. > Sebi > > -- > Sergiu Sebastian Tauciuc > http://www.sergiutauciuc.ro/en/ > http://lookingatdesigns.wordpress.com/ > -- Sergiu Sebastian Tauciuc http://www.sergiutauciuc.ro/en/ http://lookingatdesigns.wordpress.com/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
