During our early conversations, Michael told us about an experience he once had, driving along I-5, encountering a feedlot for the first time. Climate change, health statistics, and energy use are pretty abstract concepts. Michael had already told us that he wanted to help people understand the amount of oil used to create the fast food so many of us eat every day. Duarte had the distinct pleasure of working with bestselling author Michael Pollan to turn his ideas about sustainability and food systems into a visual presentation for the PopTech conference last month.

Refer to a shocking statistic She had a number of figures written up on the whiteboard and then told us what they represented. Tags: Content Attention-getting presentation Presentation opening quotes statistics storie I get frustrated at presentation advice which says you have to do something clever or dramatic at the beginning of a presentation to grab your audience’s attention. That’s for three reasons:

8220;The Power Gap” (a new animated infographic by Airslide) is a great example of making a complex story look effortless… “Demos came to us with an intensely detailed statistical study, which rated every single constituency in Britain according to a number of different social and economic aspects. For us, it was a lot of multi-layered information to squeeze into a short animation. Simplicity does not necessarily mean skimping out on the meat of your presentation. When handled correctly, complex scenarios and data can still be included while

For more details on this study including the “conditions” of the experiment and the statistical results see Michael Alley’s article ). These don’t just help “visual” people, they help all of us, because anybody who can see has a strong visual sense. Write a comment to tell us about them and we can discuss how to address that objection. You’ve read Presentation Zen and Slideology and you’re convinced about the benefits of using visually-engaging PowerPoint slides when you present. But everyone else in your organization

This is also effective for single numbers and statistics. On US election night, the political commentators on CNN had high-tech touch screens. There’s a revolution in the design of PowerPoint slides, but not the delivery. Most speakers still rely on their slides to cue them. They click, they talk, click, talk, click, talk…

Overcoming the 'curse of knowledge.' In Chip Heath's great book "Made To Stick" he talks about how we - our society and all of us as communicators - are caught up in the 'curse of knowledge.' think most statistical research can be faulted in some way - and as Mark Twain said, " There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. " But what is the essence of the findings? There's been a lot of unfortunate controversy among communication professionals about Professor Albert Mehrabian's oft quoted research (below.) It's good to have discussion - his research

Looking back at my own K-12 education, I wish I had had more exposure to science and math, especially astronomy, physics, and statistics which were all but missing for me until college. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity — [they] are our attempt as humans to build an understanding of the world around us...." Speaking of the role of art & music in education Mae Jemison's TED presentation ties in nicely with a piece that came out this week by the legendary Quincy Jones called Arts Education in America. Mae Jemison is an astronaut, a medical doctor, an art collector, and a dancer.

So earlier this week I was delighted when Christine, a PZ reader from the US, pointed to this interesting presentation by Ken Cook, the Founder of the Environmental Working Group. Many audiences will demand that the sources for a statistic appear on the slide itself, but at the very least you have to say what your source is before you show the data. When I was 17, before Macintosh was even invented, I gave my first multimedia presentation using two 35mm projectors. My topic concerned the environment and the dangers of air and water pollution.

Confusing words, phrases or statistics. And so for the billion people who use Windows, for the perhaps as many as 300 million people who may buy a PC during the course of the next 12 months, we want to give a chance for people to have a better and better experience and at the same time, enable a world of new opportunities, new applications to do new things that you’re going to have a chance to see and witness as you’re here with us today. Across the planet, feedback coming in from people in all walks of life really helping Matt Lauer said that the launch of Windows 7 was the most important launch Microsoft had done in ten years.

first learned this lesson when..." A startling statistic: "Did you know that if you had spent a million dollars a day, every day, since Jesus was born, you would not have spent a trillion dollars. link] From: Lisa Neal ( email ) eLearn Magazine Revising my top 10 list Date: 01/20/2008 05:50:15 Since writing my top 10 list ([link] I started using WordPress and would easily put it in my top 3 tools now (see lisaneal.wordpress.com to see how it has changed my life). Comments