Showing posts with label Daniel Pink. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Daniel Pink. Show all posts
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Pecha-Kucha Presentations
Just today someone here at work introduced me to the idea of 20x20 PowerPoint presentations. They sent me a link to Daniel Pink's Blog and an entry he made regarding this. He actually gives an example tht is pretty good. he talks about emotionally intelligent signage. Anyhow, a 20x20 presentation is 20 slides that each display for 20 seconds. This comes out to a total of 6 miutes and 40 seconds of information. The slides advance themselves and the presenter must only use the time alloted. This got me thinking about the white space of a presentation, the dead air. It seems to me that we need to get better at using this. , by we I mean me. A great example of the use of white space is in Rob Bells Nooma video entitled "Noise" (the preview only shows some of what I am talking about). The other thing that this gets me thinking about is the typical use of title slides. With the 20x20 idea you need to make better use of a title slide and actually have it convey information.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Training Tech Solutions Conference
Conference
I am actually sitting in my hotel room in SLC (I should be packing) after attending the Training Tech Solutions Conference. Overall it was a very good conference, there were only two one-hour session that seemed to be duds. Pretty good. I attended 3 sessions by Jane Bozarth who I especially enjoyed hearing. She really focuses on getting back to the basics of Instructional Design and she encourages trainers and instructional designers to stop focusing on all of the fancy tools and stuff when much of what you need to do could be done in PowerPoint anyway. I also enjoyed hearing Steven Johnson speak, his session keynote was compelling. I bought a couple of his books that same day. His book "Everything Bad is Good for You" reminds me of Daniel Pink a little bit in his book "A Whole New Mind" he has an interesting take on how some of the elements of pop-culture are affecting the way that we use our minds, it is making us smarter. More on that when I finish the book.
Pastor Karl
Earlier this week, I called around to get in touch with the churches in my denomination. I was surprised to see that there are only 2 here in SLC. I finally got ahold of Pastor Karl and he and I had a burger together. He drove me to both churches and we talked a bit about the affect the LDS church has on our denomination in this city. I promised to be praying for Pastor Karl and his church. Specifically that he would be successful in his ministry to this city.
Temple Square
I did the tour yesterday of the temple square as well as watched two of the free movies they show in the visitor center and Joseph Smith memorial building. One of the movies especially was very well produced and I enjoyed seeing the LDS perspective on their history. I found it funny that before the movie began the usher (an LDS Missionary girl) told everyone that if they needed Kleenexes there were some available. There was some tragic content as far as the part where Joseph and Emma (?) Smith lost many children. It was interesting to me that the reaction of some of the people in the theater was one of highly intense emotion. Interesting new experience for me to be an onlooker for someone else's religious experience without being affected much because of the differences in my beliefs. Overall, I really enjoyed the tour and I must say, the Mormon church does a great job of making everybody feel very welcome and connecting with people.
I am actually sitting in my hotel room in SLC (I should be packing) after attending the Training Tech Solutions Conference. Overall it was a very good conference, there were only two one-hour session that seemed to be duds. Pretty good. I attended 3 sessions by Jane Bozarth who I especially enjoyed hearing. She really focuses on getting back to the basics of Instructional Design and she encourages trainers and instructional designers to stop focusing on all of the fancy tools and stuff when much of what you need to do could be done in PowerPoint anyway. I also enjoyed hearing Steven Johnson speak, his session keynote was compelling. I bought a couple of his books that same day. His book "Everything Bad is Good for You" reminds me of Daniel Pink a little bit in his book "A Whole New Mind" he has an interesting take on how some of the elements of pop-culture are affecting the way that we use our minds, it is making us smarter. More on that when I finish the book.
Pastor Karl
Earlier this week, I called around to get in touch with the churches in my denomination. I was surprised to see that there are only 2 here in SLC. I finally got ahold of Pastor Karl and he and I had a burger together. He drove me to both churches and we talked a bit about the affect the LDS church has on our denomination in this city. I promised to be praying for Pastor Karl and his church. Specifically that he would be successful in his ministry to this city.
Temple Square
I did the tour yesterday of the temple square as well as watched two of the free movies they show in the visitor center and Joseph Smith memorial building. One of the movies especially was very well produced and I enjoyed seeing the LDS perspective on their history. I found it funny that before the movie began the usher (an LDS Missionary girl) told everyone that if they needed Kleenexes there were some available. There was some tragic content as far as the part where Joseph and Emma (?) Smith lost many children. It was interesting to me that the reaction of some of the people in the theater was one of highly intense emotion. Interesting new experience for me to be an onlooker for someone else's religious experience without being affected much because of the differences in my beliefs. Overall, I really enjoyed the tour and I must say, the Mormon church does a great job of making everybody feel very welcome and connecting with people.
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