What's in a (Conference Paper) Name?

You're looking through the workshop and paper presentation titles. Your eyes fall upon names like:

• Shared visions and visualisation: Driving forces, individuals and teams
• Achieving sustained success
• Rethinking Agrulculture: a paradigm shift
• Establishing Connections among critical thinking, language proficiency and writing
• Applications of Edward de Bono's thinking methods in Malaysia

Yada yada yada. Titles like these constitute almost 80% of the agenda. What a breath of fresh air then to see headings like:

• 100 Kids, 100 Clouds, 100 Days
• Educating for the Unknown
• Tribethink vs. Worldthink
• Marks, Scribble and Draw
• Making Visible the Invisible

As in life, so in conferences - titles that stand out win.

(My own presentation titles for the 14th ICOT are at best above average: "The 6 Thinking Hats" and "Emergent Education: Exploring the 'Already' and 'Not Yet' of Learning").