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...