HackFwd Intro on Vimeo

HackFwd Intro on Vimeo

A 3-minute presentation about a new startup... should interest the coders among you!

I have a good contact who's working with them, David Bizer, if you want more information.

(Here is David talking about his experience... http://www.vimeo.com/12226828 )

all the best

have a good summer

stay in touch

james

Acknowledgement

I would like to thank James for all of interesting information that you brought us during the lessons.

I also would like to thank all classmates for your comments whenever I had mistake at the presentations. I hope all of you have a lot of success in your Phd work.

Anh

Twitter in Plain English - 79 Translation(s) | dotSUB

Twitter in Plain English - 79 Translation(s) | dotSUB

here is one of the commoncraft.com videos...on the dotsub.com web2.0 subtitling site.

Writeboard: scientific presentations -- the minutes of our class sessions

Writeboard: scientific presentations -- the minutes of our class sessions

Have a look at Anh's minutes from the last session! So you can remember what we did a month ago!

james

Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! | Video on TED.com

Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! | Video on TED.com:

And here's a talk with no slides! Did you see his first talk (about schools killing creativity?) it's a classic!

Good news... it think we'll be in our normal room tomorrow. F601... Check there before going to B549.

Julie and Francois aren't going to make it but hope everyone else can... it's our last session...

see you there!

james


"In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning -- creating conditions where kids' natural talents can flourish."

Sorry

Hi everybody,

again and again, sorry again. I won't be able to be with you tomorrow, because - it's obvious - I have a presentation friday morning and I have to work on it tomorrow. I don't know if you remember but it is the presentation about Wiener and the communication paradigm.
Sure that I will remember your comments friday at 11:00 ! :)

Hope you are all fine,
see you soon I hope and thanks for the nice moments we shared during this english course,
f.

RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

Nice video with interesting presentation techniques ;)

maas

Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action | Video on TED.com

Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action | Video on TED.com

An interesting talk... especially since he doesn't use powerpoint or other slideware, just a flip chart!

Our last class is this coming Thursday. 2pm in B549... (sniffle, sniffle)

We should have 7 short (5 to 10) minute presentations... Which I'm looking forward to listening to!

(Minimum 5 minutes... maximum 10 minutes! KISS! "Keep it short and simple.")

See you there

james

American Civilisation presentation tomorrow (in French)

hi all,

our second-to-last class will be this coming Thursday!  and we should have the first 4 or 5 five-minute presentations, please prepare them carefully. See you soon
james

oh, btw....

tomorrow Wednesday at 3:15 pm in F900 I have the honor of presenting (with three other American colleagues) some aspects of American civilization in French! It's a course that's open to everyone so if you're free and at Telecom anyway you can listen and watch our presentation that we'll be doing in French!  I do a part on American symbols at the beginning!

all the best

james

The Girl Effect - Home

The Girl Effect - Home

you should enjoy seeing this again!

Of course I meant May 6th and June 3rd!

(Sorry for the SNAFU in my previous post!)

Looking forward to seeing you all next Thursday.

Half of the class (you?) will be doing you 5 minute presentation!

Happy May Day!

james

Made To Stick: Presentations That Stick | Fast Company

Made To Stick: Presentations That Stick | Fast Company


Here are three tips...

1) Keep it simple
2) Show something
3) Tease before you tell!

see you all soon!

Our last two classes.... 3 May, 6 June

Our last two classes are scheduled for May 3rd and then June 6th. Hope to see you all.

When do we have some course?

Hello everyone,

just a simple message to ask you when do we have another course together? I wrote something for tomorrow but I don't think it is.

I am completly lost with all our changes...

Please, give me a hint! :)

f.

David Pogue says "Simplicity sells" | Video on TED.com

David Pogue says "Simplicity sells" | Video on TED.com:

Here's a novel way of doing a presentation! ...An example for the singers among us!

See you all soon!
james

"New York Times columnist David Pogue takes aim at technology’s worst interface-design offenders, and provides encouraging examples of products that get it right. To funny things up, he bursts into song"

Be My Interviewer - Job Interview Tips & Advice

Be My Interviewer - Job Interview Tips & Advice:

an interview is a very specific presentation situation!

"BeMyInterviewer is for anyone that wants to be successful at interviews.

Using our interactive videos, you can practise and perfect your interview technique with the help of leading industry professionals. We'll provide you with valuable and practical advice to prepare you for the toughest questions and interview scenarios you are likely to face."

Eric Giler demos wireless electricity | Video on TED.com

Eric Giler demos wireless electricity | Video on TED.com:

"Eric Giler wants to untangle our wired lives with cable-free electric power. Here, he covers what this sci-fi tech offers, and demos MIT's breakthrough version, WiTricity -- a near-to-market invention that may soon recharge your cell phone, car, pacemaker."

An interesting demo!

See you on Thursday! (I'm also sending an invitation for an exhibition this weekend!)

james

How to give a good research talk

Take a look at this text about scientific presentations:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/giving-a-talk/giving-a-talk-html.html

They have nice tips for more technical presentations.

Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)

Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)

a good place to see how to use "advise" and "advice"...

scientific presentation!!!!!

Spatiotemporal classification
Hi everybody,
This is one of the shortest " highly rated" presentations I could find.
We can see some overloaded slides, no animation, no jokes :( ... isn't a good presentation!?!?
see you this afternoon...

Gapminder: the statistics dynamizer !

--> View the Demo

And here a demo for a Gapminder about CO2 emissions since 1820, great way to emphasize the terrible speed of fuel consumption and exhaust emissions!!

Free Slides to Teach Technical Presentations

Free Slides to Teach Technical Presentations:


I added some dates to the doodle so we can reschedule our last class in May. (There's a link from the writeboard... see the sidebar on the blog.)

See you on Thursday.... from 2 to 5 pm... in F601.

Looking forward to seeing your mini presentations...

-------------------

This is an interesting collection of teaching aids... have a look.

What do you think? Please leave a comment. james

"This web page presents a free collection of teaching slides for you, the instructor, to use when you discuss presentations in your engineering and science courses. These slides have been used with much success in presentation courses for engineers and scientists at Sandia National Laboratories and several universities including the University of Barcelona, the University of Oslo, and Virginia Tech."

Presenting With Visuals

Another presentation insisting on visuals instead of words. I'm convinced...

Presenting With Visuals (UPDATED)

View more presentations from Fortify Services.

Dan Roam : Selling ideas with pictures

Dan Roam says that we really understand an idea when we are able to talk about it but also to draw it. Here is one of his famous presentation. I let you discover his particular style...

Healthcare Napkins All

View more presentations from Dan Roam.

How Do Others Ace Their Interviews?

How Do Others Ace Their Interviews?: "How Do Others Ace Their Interviews?"

An interview is a rather special sort of presentation! I thought this might interest you!


Looking forward to seeing you all this Thursday at 2 pm in F601.

Remember we said you would prepare one or two slides and the first few minutes of a presentation! See you there!

james

Hans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen | Video on TED.com

Hans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen | Video on TED.com

Some ideas to show data in a very effective way to illustrate strong messages.

Terri Sjodin: People Judge You on What?

I like the link she does between "sales" and "presentations"... I found her at the related videos of the Garr Reynolds' one... she has a lot of interesting videos ;)

(not so) effective powerpoint presentation techniques...

David Hanson: Robots that "show emotion" | Video on TED.com

David Hanson: Robots that "show emotion" | Video on TED.com:

"Robots that 'show emotion'" Can a robot understand gestures? human expressions? can it show emotion?

I thought this short 6 minute presentation might interest you! (Especially Anh!)

Leave a comment and tell me what you think!

all the best

james

ps... I'm going to make a mailing list for us... (one address that'll go to all the members) you'll get something from the mailman server saying that you've subscribed.

YouTube - StanfordUniversity's Channel

YouTube - StanfordUniversity's Channel:

"Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
From: StanfordUniversity | March 07, 2008 | 1,530,568 views"
(15 minutes long...)

Here he's telling three stories about his life, and not selling anything.
The "CC" button will give you the subtitles.

Let me know what you think... (add a comment).

YouTube - Authors@Google: Garr Reynolds

YouTube - Authors@Google: Garr Reynolds

for homework...
please watch at least part of this.... If it's at all boring... just stop! (minimum 10 minutes...)

Add a comment on the blog about what you think is relevant... what you liked... what surprised you. what you would like to use for your own presentations...

Also have a look at his presentationzen.com website and especially the "popular posts" section (on the right).

Jordi 'll post the minutes with the other things to do for our next class in a month!

james

YouTube - Apple Music Event 2001-The First Ever iPod Introduction

YouTube - Apple Music Event 2001-The First Ever iPod Introduction

good slides... but does he walk around too much?  he seems very relaxed... but I know that everything is really carefully rehearsed beforehand. Is this a mistake?

A presentation that makes you move :D !

Julian Treasure: The 4 ways sound affects us :

Excellent synchronization between the speaker and the presentation progress!

It lasts just about 5' minutes, the presenter speaks continuously but with a big confidence, keeps a beautiful tone while speaking and gives lots of nice and effective examples.

The guy was just speaking, totally immobile, but with some magic power I felt that he was piloting the audience constantly moving with his presentation!! No way to get bored :))))

stephen hawking's answers to big questions

i love this guy, i'm fascinated everytime i hear him



his speech is direct, clear reasoning, with short phrases and everybody can understand it

otherwise, last day i heard about another (funny?) theory about the beginning of the universe:
the idea is that the universe is created by a very advanced civilization capable of creating
universes, so that everybody of that civilization could create an universe. The basis of this
theory is that we find in nature things that we cannot explain with the evolution theory of
darwin (like how the vertebrates and the crustaceans developed the same mechanism of
vision -eyes-), but that an "intelligent design" could explain...

the problem is who created that civilization, another civilization of universe designers?

or maybe we should ask ourselves more about our future than about our beginning :))))

Hans Rosling: Asia's rise -- how and when

This video does not tell about the technology, not about the science but about Asian countries. Through this video, I see a bright future for my country, Vietnam. I hope that this will be true and it happens soonner so that we will be able to escape from the current poor situation.

Evan Grant: Making sound visible through cymatics | Video on TED.com

Evan Grant: Making sound visible through cymatics | Video on TED.com:

"Evan Grant: Making sound visible through cymatics"

Short and sweet! (4'37'') what do you think of his slides? you can leave a comment on the blog!

see you on Thursday

james

Writeboard: January 14th 2010

Writeboard: January 14th 2010

Here we have Marilena's minutes of our last session on our "Writeboard"...(a mini-wiki). It should ask for the password which is a synonym for the name of our school....

I'm enjoying the great posts on the blog... please continue to explore the Ted talks!

see you on Thursday

james

How to make waves on the web

This presentation is a very good example on how to get a message across to an audience in a very short time.
The ingredients :
- Begin the speech with a little joke to relax the audience
- Rapidly exposing the concept
- And go on with a meaningful illustration
- Finally, conclude with a much more general message (and a bit philosophic !)
Moreover, humour makes the presentation more attractive and creates an interaction with the audience so that he has fun too, and if he has fun...the audience too...

I think this presentation illustrates very well the fact that the web is the best place to create a buzz, which makes that media very powerful and totally uncontrollable (but what's the matter ?).

Alexis Ohanian: How to make a splash in social media | Video on TED.com

His objective was a 3 minutes presentation so he had to speak very fast, maybe a bit too fast ?

thinking about the future

http://www.ted.com/talks/marvin_minsky_on_health_and_the_human_mind.html

I find this presentation quite imaginative and funny. Nevertheless it is inciting us to think about the possible situations that we might need to face in the future and how we can adapt what we already know -- in a ludic, flexible way -- to solve the issues of our evolving world.

The answer is ...

Here is my choice of TED talks.

I chose it because it is nice to see the Google style in presentations and its introduction absolutely takes audience's attention to a different subject than the presentation!! That's brave, no?




ZP

Tim Brown on creativity and play

An interesting way of using examples to motivate your audience during your introduction...

iPad was released. The jokes,too!!!

Hi everybody,

It's not a post about the presentations but as we talk about Steve Jobs and iPad, i want to share it with you.

Here is an example of iPad joke:

The iPad 100 pages Edition

Of course, Steve Jobs does not care about them and we will see together if iPad will be a new innovation or, as some said, it will be a shame for Jobs to preannounce the iPad as the most important thing he ever did.

See you
ZP

Present Like Steve Jobs | Online videos for busy business professionals | BNET Video

Present Like Steve Jobs | Online videos for busy business professionals | BNET Video:

"Apple CEO Steve Jobs is well known for his electrifying presentations. Communications coach Carmine Gallo discusses the various techniques Jobs uses to captivate"


And did you watch him introduce the iPad?

Looking forward to seeing you all soon. How about adding a comment or a post to our blog?

all the best

james

After Google’s Stand on China, U.S. Treads Lightly - NYTimes.com

After Google’s Stand on China, U.S. Treads Lightly - NYTimes.com:

"After Google’s Stand on China, U.S. Treads Lightly"

I'm posting this second article from the NY Times, not only because I think it should interest all of you, but also because of what I wanted to show you in the first article but which didn't work!

Here you can double-click on any word and get the definition and pronunciation (a little question mark should pop-up). It doesn't work on the front page but should work on most of the articles that you click through to, unless (tongue in cheek) I want to demonstrate it to you in class!

all the best
james

5 simple rules for creating world changing presentations

This presentation was created to demonstrate the new features of Microsoft Office Powerpoint 2010 . But it's still interesting to people who want to create world changing presentations, like us ;)

Office Powerpoint 2010 "Five Rules" sample presentation from Long Zheng on Vimeo.

YouTube - Apple Music Event 2001-The First Ever iPod Introduction

YouTube - Apple Music Event 2001-The First Ever iPod Introduction:

"Apple Music Event 2001-The First Ever iPod Introduction"

You're all too young to remember the first ipod with a physical click-wheel.... but this is a good example of Steve Jobs presenting. It's also interesting to see how this product has changed! And of course firewire is now out and usb 2 (and soon 3) are in!

In 1991 Steve Jobs introduced the "iPod"...
Lots of information in less than 10 minutes...

Look at his slides... what do you think?
What are the questions he asks? Does he expect answers?
How does he present his data and the figures? Are they easy to understand? Why?

Please leave a comment.

all the best james (you're all admins now!)

The No Lock People - NYTimes.com

The No Lock People - NYTimes.com

whow this is interesting.... maybe

Jeff Han demos his breakthrough touchscreen | Video on TED.com

Jeff Han demos his breakthrough touchscreen | Video on TED.com:

"Jeff Han demos his breakthrough touchscreen"

Is this the future of the HCI : Human computer interface?

Do you know the Ted talks? ted.com? (remember you can click on the interactive transcript... and can also activiate the subtitles...)

Touch Screens... the latest buzz and omnipresent on our smart phones...

Here is a presentation that is now 5 years old. Will the next generation of touchscreens include some of the features and gestures that Jeff Han presented way back then.
(Touch screens are soon to be reincarnated with the Apple iSlate (?), coming to a screen near you on January 27th...)

Please leave a comment to let the group know what you think of this!

Homework for our third class:
There are many "scientific" TedTalks please find one to post to the blog, explaining why you chose it!

james

DEMO.com > Alumni > Video Library

DEMO.com -- Alumni -- Video Library

The Launchpad for Emerging Technology

You know about the CES in Las Vegas? Do you now about Demo.com?

Writeboard: scientific presentations -- the minutes of our class sessions

Writeboard: scientific presentations -- the minutes of our class sessions

This is a link to "your writeboard... a sort of mini-wiki for the minutes of our sessions together.

Here are the minutes of our first class session.
Thank you Asma!

(You'll need a password.. humm... it begins with "tele..." and is a nickname for the name of our school. ;-) )

(There is also link to the writeboard from your blog...)

I'm happy to say that almost everyone in the group is now a member of the blog!

Remember... now that you're a member you can post things... interesting websites and videos. Don't be a lurker... do it.

I'm sure you can help the group discover some interesting presentations on the Internet.

see you all Thursday... james

(you're welcome to add a comment....)

How to Begin a Public Speech: Public Speaking Tips | eHow.com

How to Begin a Public Speech: Public Speaking Tips | eHow.com:

"How to Begin a Public Speech" this is an interesting "how-to" site...

Here are his three tips about beginning a public speech... Do you think that they're applicable to scientific presentations too?

see you on Thursday... james



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welcome!

this is your blog... here we can share things... don't be a lurker... add comments!!