Shame, shame everybody knows my name. And everybody who saw the following presentation knows I took a 10 year backstep on the design.Does this look like 1998? Mountain landscapes, silhouettes, wow. How many bullets is that? How many words? Don't bother counting, it's just a rhetorical question.
I normally don't present in this way if I can help it. So what happened? Uh. . .well. . .I got lazy? Is that a valid excuse for non-Zen presenting? Probably not. But non-Zen presentation making is a lot less time consuming than Zen presentation making.
With that said, I chose the above presentation, which I used on Open House for Parents because I know it is a presentation I will give many more times in my career.
Since this was my first slide, I thought that in a more Zen-like presenation, my personal history could fit in nicely with a map. How would this look instead?
Instead of reading bullet points, I could refer to particular stars on the map of the world and say whatever I need to say about it. I first saw a slide such as this in a Zen-nified presentation for parents, but I couldn't resist the temptation to play with prezi.com to for my presentation.
Just now, I realized that this part of my presentation could just was well be done with Google Earth and be much more engaging than a two dimensional map.
Regardless of what form the final presentation takes and what technologies are involved, there's no doubt that any of the new approaches beats out the old one for my
I love the idea of using Google Earth in your presentation! You can even export a screencast of a Google Earth movie to embed in your presentation so you don't have to worry about speed or internet connection.
ReplyDeleteI love your example of just being able to tell the story of your life alongside the map - such a more natural way to present!