Clark Quinn

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Presenting in a networked age

Clark Quinn

The Learning Circuit’s Big Question this month has to do with the increasing prevalence of internet access during presentations. The context is that during presentations it’s certainly possible that your audience is multi-tasking, and the question is; what are the implications? Are they valuable to the presenter?

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eLearning Strategy Presentation

Clark Quinn

I gave my eLearning Strategy presentation to the eLearning Division of ASTD’s LA Chapter. Despite some technical hiccups (GoToWebinar doesn’t seem to have a chat feature, nor does it allow Mac users to be presenters, ahem), the presentation went off reasonably well. And now, it’s available online.

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Monday Broken ID Series: Concept Presentation

Clark Quinn

At some point (typically, after the introduction ) we need to present the concept. What we too often see is a presentation of a rote procedure, without the underlying justification. In software, we’ll see feature/function presentations (literally going item by item through the menus!). In business, we’ll teach a process.

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Rules for Copying Presentation Style?

Clark Quinn

What are the rules for copying presentation style? But the question this leaves me with. if I found something that I thought was a good style to copy for the videos and screencasts that I'm thinking about, I was planning on borrowing from it. Would this be wrong?

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Get the basics right first!

Clark Quinn

We see, instead, information presentation. Anyone had the dubious pleasure of attending a slide presentation in a virtual world? Or maybe being presented with animated presentations of lots of facts? That is, if we actually want to achieve an outcome. Yet, too often, we don’t see this.

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The case for good timekeeping

Clark Quinn

In my personal experience as a speaker, I was on a joint presentation where the leadoff presenter seemed to forget that there was anyone else on the agenda! I’ve also seen people unaware that they were running long, and others unable to amend their presentation on the fly when they did become aware. Trim if necessary.

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Vale Roger Schank

Clark Quinn

I heard Roger speak at a Cog Sci conference I attended to present part of my dissertation research. The controversy around his presentation caused the guest speaker, Stephen Jay Gould, to comment “you guys are weird”! In return, I learned a lot from him, and use some of his examples in my presentations. I was a fan.

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