Day 10 Shelley's Presentation A Triumph! June 25, 2008

Shelley was great!
She gave her keynote address today at 1:30 p.m. at the University of Utrecht, the largest university in The Netherlands. It's the COSL Conference, put on by the Open University of the Netherlands.
The previous speaker was German and reported on his very minute research to prove that people who use on-line chat in their schoolwork learn more. He was extremely scientific, but dry. Shel says many people there will be glad for his research, so they can quote him. I almost fell asleep.
Shelley's keynote address was a definite wake up! Her Powerpoint presentation slides were colorful, and she was friendly and entertaining. Her slides, in accordance with their philosophy of open, free internet everything which this organization espouses, are all available online for free. She seemed extremely confident and happy. Everyone there enjoyed it, and lots came up after to tell her how great she did.
I'm on a 15 minute computer and I have to post this before it quits!
Aha! I got another free 15 minutes from the hotel desk clerk! Great!
The hall where she presented seats about 500, and probably 300 people were there. It's all extremely modern, with a huge screen, maybe 15 feet high and 40 feet long, to show whatever you want from your computer. She looked really good standing up there, talking into the microphone and switching her slides on the screen. It was a good venue for her style, because the walls are wood and the seats are all different colors, sloping up to the sound booth at the top. In the picture you see the foyer outside the hall. The sound booth is on the left. It's a really cool-looking sound command center, because it is shaped the the blimp Hindenburg and it's made of little strips of wood and it projects from both inside and outside walls of the auditorium.
After her address they presented her with a picture book of the Netherlands and some great chocolates. We went outside and sat in a quiet place by some trees and just let her decompress. Then, of course, she went back to work to edit her article she's publishing.
I, of course, went back to town for more sightseeing!