{"id":3547,"date":"2017-10-19T22:22:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T22:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3547"},"modified":"2017-10-19T22:31:47","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T22:31:47","slug":"kids-at-barcamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3547","title":{"rendered":"Kids at barcamp"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been a fan of barcamps<\/a> for a while, and have been going to any that I can for at least ten years<\/a>. <\/p>\n

In recent years, I’ve encouraged my kids to come along with me, and in the spirit of barcamp<\/a>, to think of something they could bring to share or talk about. <\/p>\n

Grace did a talk about her experiences being taught ICT at primary school<\/a> at Barcamp Berkshire in 2013. <\/p>\n

Grace did a demo of how kids are taught to do sums in school today<\/a> at Barcamp Bournemouth in 2014. <\/p>\n

Faith did a talk about owls (and chatbots)<\/a> at Barcamp Southampton in 2016. <\/p>\n

Last Saturday, it was Barcamp Southampton again, and Faith decided to run a session. <\/p>\n

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This time, she chose to do a ukulele lesson. <\/p>\n

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We borrowed a car boot-full of ukuleles from Hampshire Music Service<\/a>. (We owe them a big thanks!)<\/p>\n

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She set up the room with a ukulele on every seat for everyone who came to her session. <\/p>\n

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And she’d made a few PowerPoint slides with finger patterns on to help get people started. <\/p>\n

Before too long, she had a bunch of adults (who’d never played ukulele before!) strumming along, leading us all as we echoed her strumming patterns. We sounded okay by the end!<\/p>\n

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I love this event @BarcampSouth<\/a>, what a perfect way to kick off a day of inspiration and learning ? pic.twitter.com\/TRNu4vBwwr<\/a><\/p>\n

— Dan Thomas (@DannyT) October 14, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I was super proud of her. There is no way I’d have been brave enough to try it when I was her age. <\/p>\n

And, like her sister<\/a>, it was a more creative and fun idea for a talk than the usual stand-in-front-of-slides-and-talk sessions that I always do. <\/p>\n