Tag: presentations

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-17

Oct 17, 2011

in Digest

academic dishonesty, blind students, Complexity, copyright, critical thinking, flipboard, hiking, hoerikwaggo, ipad, lions head, oer, open educational resources, papert, powerpoint, presentations, table mountain, tablets, visually impaired students, zite

@Suhaifa it’s an easy walk, easier than lions head, don’t stress 🙂 # Daily Papert http://t.co/vJQhrNh4. We can’t solve the world’s problems with the same thinking that created them # Critical Thinker Explains Skepticism vs. Cynicism http://t.co/Zmxh81m9 via @zite # RT @engadget: MobiUS smartphone ultrasound hits the market two years too late for relevancy http://t.co/DaWRQqXo…
Posted to Diigo 09/11/2011

Sep 11, 2011

in Note

master learners, presentation zen, presentations, stories, story, storytelling, teaching

Presentation Zen: We learn from stories and experience To experience something has a far more profound effect on your ability to remember and influence you than if you simply read it in a book You’ve cast a learner into the world. And that’s the most powerful thing you can do as a teacher The enthusiastic…
Posted to Diigo 08/17/2011

Aug 17, 2011

in Gaming, Learning, Note, Research, Social media, Teaching, Technology

active learning, blended learning, cooperation, curation, diversity, feedback, gaming, personal learning environment, personal learning network, ple, pln, presentations, principles of good practice, storytelling

I did a lot of reading and highlighting the other night, which is why this is so long. I’ve been bookmarking a lot of articles (about 400 at the last count) over the past 6 months or so, and will be trying to get through them over the next few months. There might be more…
Basic presentation skills for postgraduates

May 26, 2011

in Conference, Research, Students

postgraduate, presentations, research, students

A few weeks ago I gave a presentation to our postgraduate students who were preparing to submit their Masters proposals. One of our requirements in the department is that any student wanting to submit a proposal must present to the the department for critical feedback. We want our proposals to be as strong as possible…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-21

Mar 21, 2011

in Digest

academic publication, africa, audio, Carl Sagan, comments, discussion, Docs Turns Its Comments System, feedback, Firefox, Google, google body, Google Docs, graduation, html, Moses Sitati, mp, outcome measures, papert, pdf, presentations, prezi, RT, twitter, xml

@paulscott56 Agreed. Twitter doesn’t allow 4 extended explanations. Basically, I Remembered I’m a physio, not a coder 🙂 # Google Body – An amazing free addition to the science classroom http://ow.ly/1scftQ # Using Audio more http://ow.ly/1scft8. Nice range between perspectives # Scholarly HTML – major progress http://ow.ly/1scfps. I used to wonder about an XML variant…
Posted to Diigo 06/15/2010

Jun 16, 2010

in Note

asymmetry, educational technology, empty space, groupwork, presentations, social learning

Asymmetry and emptiness: lessons from the tearoom Just as two pieces of music can not be enjoyed at the same time, one can not comprehend or appreciate the beauty of the moment without a clear focal point or “central motive Abundance of vacant space allows for the clear existence of a focal point and the…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-14

Jun 14, 2010

in Digest

augmented reality, david warlick, david wiley, digital objects, e-learning, e-reader, freemind, george siemens, gliffy, Google, Google Docs, google wave, grahame attwell, head, http, John Underkoffler, kno, lawrence lessig, live blogging, M Rowe – Social Networks, meego, Mexico, michael wesch, Mike Wesch, netbook, Official, Online Diagram Software, open education, openstreetmap, personal learning, ple, presentations, reading, reflective learning, slideshare, social networks, space shuttle, Stellenbosch University, stephen downes, tedxnyed, Tips & Tricks, twitter, user interface design, Viva Bafana, vuvuzela, wikipedia, wikipedia logo, world cup 2010, Writing Planner

Military Grade Augmented Reality Could Redefine Modern Warfare http://tinyurl.com/259rkgl # I LOVE the #vuvuzela Never before has the crowd been so integrated into the game as they are at #wc2010 # Twitter not so good for #wc2010 commentary if you’re not watching the games, but damn, some of the comments are funny, especially tonight 🙂…
Posted to Diigo 06/09/2010

Jun 10, 2010

in Note

presentation zen, presentations

Presentation Zen: The importance of starting from Why most ineffective presentations could have been prevented if the presenter had just asked two important questions before he began to prepare: (1) What’s my point? And (2) why does it matter? Most presenters focus only on the what (information, data, more information…more data just in case) and…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-31

May 31, 2010

in Digest

assessment, digital heretic, grading, graphic notetaking, Inside Higher Ed, learning, learning mangement system, lms, online presence, personal learning environment, phd research, ple, pptplex, presentations, prezi, Professor, social networking seminar, steve wheeler, twitter

Got feedback from my HoD re. my research productivity for the semester. Too many sideprojects slowing me down http://tinyurl.com/3aflcp2 # @cristinacost I find it confusing. pptPlex for Powerpoint seems to be a good compromise between linear and freeform http://bit.ly/9ltFH8 # @NancyWhite I also find Prezi to be quite complex, although I suppose that, as with…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-12

Apr 12, 2010

in Digest

blogging, Brian Austin Green, Chronic, david warlick, douglas adams, education, Google Earth, ipad, Megan Fox, mindmapping, personalised learning, presentations, questionnaire, reliability, scientist, social responsibility, south africa, stephen downes, test-retest, the chronic, twitter, Uses Google Earth, xmind, youth

@sbestbier enjoyed it too, been thinking about ways to break away from the linear presentation, looking forward to your thoughts # @clivesimpkins Good idea, I’ll bring it up with him & ask about opening the platform to other students for editing # Never really had much use for mindmapping, so when I played with #xmind…
Posted to Diigo 04/11/2010

Apr 12, 2010

in Learning, Note, Teaching

personal learning, presentations, siemens, teaching

elearnspace › PLEs – I Acronym, Therefore I Exist. PLEs aren’t an entity, structural object or software program in the sense of a learning management system. Essentially, they are a collection of tools, brought together under the conceptual notion of openness, interoperability, and learner control. As such, they are comprised of two elements – the…
Posted to Diigo 03/28/2010

Mar 29, 2010

in Note, Technology

assessment, design, garr reynolds, powerpoint, presentations

Garr Reynolds/Design Basics If you can master these fundamental concepts, your graphical treatments — from PowerPoint slides to Microsoft Word documents to company brochures — will greatly improve Seven basic graphic design principlesUnity Unity may be the single most important concept. All elements on a page (or slide, poster, etc.) must look like they belong…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-15

Feb 15, 2010

in Digest

accreditation, android, backchannel, buddypress, cape town, clifton, community of practice, copyright, crap detection, curriculum, degree, educational reform, engagement, free content, freedom, george siemens, goats, higher education, howard rheingold, iphone, jisc, learning technology, lessig, managing information, microblogging, microecop, mobile learning, network, nexus one, ocw, oer, open courseware consortium, open educational resources, p2pu, pbl, peer to peer university, personal learning environments, ple, pop quizz, presentations, problem based learning, twitter, university of the western cape, uwc, web 3.0, wordpress mu

@ryantracey Agreed. The process, rather than the certificate, should be emphasised # RT @wesleylynch: Video comparing iphone and nexus – http://ow.ly/17iBb. Can’t imagine how the iPhone will survive, Android is already better # RT @psychemedia: Are Higher Degrees a waste of time for most people? http://bit.ly/buKpOW. IT professionals are hardly “most people” # University finds…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-08

Feb 8, 2010

in Digest

digital divide, e-books, education, learning networks, neurology, posters, presentations, qualitative research, virtual reality

Two new Qualitative analysis books | Virtual Canuck http://bit.ly/aLWter # RT @xbkingx: Vegetative Patient Answers Yes and No Questions With His Brain [Medicine] http://ff.im/fqqoK # RT @gsiemens: RT @amcunningham: visualising learning networks- going to download tool now! fascinating http://bit.ly/99xtVu # Improving presentation skills, academic conferences are often dry and conservative, we need more entertainers http://tinyurl.com/yfa38hr…
4th year research presentations

Oct 12, 2009

in Research, Students

confidence, presentations, research, students

Just got back from watching 6 groups of 4th year physiology students present the results or their research projects at a competition. There were a few things that struck me: The “examiners” were all clinicians with few research credentials Many of the the students who presented had little understanding of the results they presented, especially…
Giving good presentations

Jul 30, 2009

in Social media

design, Dick Hardt, garr reynolds, lawrence lessig, lessig, presentation zen, presentations, Seth Godin, TED, youtube

I gave my first conference presentation in June, 2008 and thought that it was terribly boring. I presented the results of my Masters thesis and since I’m quite new to the whole “being an academic” thing, I did it the same way that everyone else was doing it. In other words, I fired up OpenOffice…