Take a look at this presentation on presenting by Garr Reynolds. Valuable for teachers, lecturers, businesspeople or anyone who has to do a talk and doesn't want to bore people to death...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ2vtQCESpka
At varsity there would be some lectures which ran concurrently... one would be virtually empty (often in a bigger venue with a more senior lecturer) and one would have people causing fire hazards by sitting in the aisles.
The latest term is `edutainment'. I have always been a little cynical of motivational speakers... yet I love my job, and very much lean towards the motivational speaker kind of style. Maybe that cynicism was based on whether what was said had practical implications or could be used in some way, or whether it just created an emotional high that would be followed by a low soon afterwards.
Maybe it is cynicism because I know how much we enjoy watching a good speaker, and a feeling that that gives some sort of power which can be used in bad ways.
Despite that cynicism, the book the guy in this clip wrote, and his blog,Presentation Zen, have inspired me.
I would like to put together some non-work related presentations and do them.
Perhaps blogging on some of the issues I would like to do presentations on would be a good way to start getting some ideas.
The two I have in mind are:
1) Study & Exam Techniques... working and studying at the same time.
My entire family are working and studying... so if they are reading this, I could use their thoughts.
2) Financial Planning for the layman
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