Day 4 of SPA 2007 began for me with my session on The Scoping Game which I’ve blogged about separately.

In the afternoon I participated in Jane Chandler’s session entitled A Toolkit for Enhancing Learning. This was a pretty good session that looked at how personality preferences could influence preferred learning styles.

We each had a chance to categorise ourselves against several personality profile guides - with scarily accurate results in my opinion. Then we explored different apporaches to learning and how these were appropriate for different presonality types. Hopefully Jane will put links to the material on the session outputs page so that I can follow this up further.

A session I would have liked to have attended was being run by Christian Nentwich and Rob James at the same time as my Scoping Game session.

From English to Executable Rules was an update of a session they gave at SPA 2006 about work being undertaken at HSBC on capturing business rules about XML message formats in order to verify individual messages using Java code generated from these rules. I hope to be able to include an article on this work on the Code Generation Network at a future date.

The closing plenary saw us meet in our quartets to review what we’d learned at the event. Sadly our quartet was now a duo with the early departure of Rob and Colin but we came up with some useful stuff which was duly attached to the back of the conference auditorium for all to see. (See James Robertson’s pictures of this here).

After helping Andy and Louisa pack up the van I headed home with the conference becoming a pleasant memory and several new ideas to chew on.

See you at SPA 2008.