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Monday, March 2, 2009
Thought I'd show some video I shot at my last workshop with my Flip Mino . In this video, they are doing the " Curse of Knowledge " exercise described in the book " Made to Stick ," and then practicing three-minute presentations at the end of the day.
...Tags: I've wanted to incorporate more video and photos of my audiences, and this is an easy way to do it. I
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Monday, June 29, 2009
I’ve been asked to be a guest speaker at the workshop “Express Yourself – Shamelessly! (Finding From the workshop’s page: “The talk is aimed at those who routinely give speeches, either professionally or personally- as well as those with a burning desire to do so but lack the confidence to take the plunge. In a mutually respectful, encouraging, non judgmental environment full of exercises and activities, we hope to cover the basic Finding Your Funny)”, by fellow Toastmaster Ola Aralepo. It’s part of the “meetup” website
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Monday, June 29, 2009
I’ve been asked to be a guest speaker at the workshop “Express Yourself - Shamelessly! (Finding From the workshop’s page: “The talk is aimed at those who routinely give speeches, either professionally or personally- as well as those with a burning desire to do so but lack the confidence to take the plunge. In a mutually respectful, encouraging, non judgmental environment full of exercises and activities, we hope to cover the basic ingredients Finding Your Funny)”, by fellow Toastmaster Ola Aralepo. It’s part of the “meetup”
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Monday, March 1, 2010
The half-day workshop was about how to present difficult or controversial topics to audiences who may be uninformed or hostile. In the first picture, the students are exploring the Curse of Knowledge through the " tappers and listeners " exercise from " Made to Stick. " If you're wondering why I would let my audience play with toys during my workshop, read here . I enjoyed working with a great group of grad students on Friday at UCSB's Bren School of Environmental Science and Management. I finally got around to writing myself a proper introduction for this training.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
In preparation for her talk she asked me if there would be a way to reproduce an exercise called “Speaker & Audience Mapping” that she usually leads in the slideology workshops . The exercise goes like this: the audience picks one of a dozen different audience types (eg. Now, we expected a large crowd (we had over 200 attend this workshop) and we knew Last month Nancy Duarte spoke at Web2.0 Expo and it was a huge success.
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Sunday, September 27, 2009
Besides relieving stress and keeping you fit, exercise seems to stimulate ideas. Give a presentation, run a seminar, teach a class, or volunteer to run a small internal workshop to teach others in your organization what you are learning. Kaizen (??) means "improvement" — "kai" (?) means change/make better, and "zen" (?)
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
One side benefit of a bad workshop is if you are actively working with peers you can learn from them and make connections useful for learning later. If you don’t break into groups of give exercises, you can fit more people into a room. For years I’d heard about Edward Tufte’s famous all day lecture . I’d owned his books, but somehow never made it to the show.
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Sunday, March 1, 2009
If few, then certainly don’t go through the exercises described here. The best comment for either situation… build in “break time” to handle questions at regular intervals. Someday there will be a field for twitter accounts in addition to email. Beth Kanter February 23, 2009 I’ve been teaching workshops and encouraged people to tweet. Pistachio Micro sharing. Macro results.
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Monday, September 14, 2009
I can't wait to use this exercise in one of my workshops. So much fun and so effective at forcing people to think on their feet -- but in a fun way! Cliff Atkinson's Visual Improv Exercise from Lisa Braithwaite on Vimeo .
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