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When Jane Hart and I shared our thoughts on social learning at the Irish Learning Showcase in Dublin last week, a formal presentation would have run counter to our message. I intend to propose conversations in lieu of presentations whenever the opportunity presents itself. MORE
I am sure that you would probably still remember how a couple of weeks back I put together a blog post where I shared a good number of resources with plenty of hints and tips on helping “ Improve Your Presentation Skills “ No wonder. Are you ready for some more Presentation Zen? MORE
From time to time, we find ourselves in a position to share these ideas in a business context, often in the form of a presentation. When designing your presentation, remember that good stories offer questions and answers and key moments of reflection. We communicate with other people every day. Over the course of our lives we’ve developed verbal, written and visual communication skills that help us convey our thoughts. MORE
I was able to be really present. View more presentations from Nancy White. View more presentations from Nancy White. It is hard to say “no&# to friends. It is harder yet to predict what will happen when you say “yes.&# When you will stumble upon a magic moment. MORE
My colleague Harold Jarche has created the following presentation which brings together some thoughts (in the form of short quotes) about workplace transformation from each the 5 Principals of the Internet Time Alliance (ITA). MORE
203 I am presenting at Tlt2010 in Saskatoon this morning. View more presentations from Harold Jarche. I’ve really enjoyed the presentations by my co-presenters, Scott Leslie and David Wiley and of course their insights and comments had me making last-minute changes this morning. MORE
On Friday, I gave my first Ignite presentation on stage to an audience of 300 at Gnomedex in Seattle. Afterward, a fellow came who had judged presentations by a group of physicists on the same topic told me I presented more information in five minutes than the scientists covered in a hour. MORE
Yes, of course, I am talking about learning plenty more about killer presentation skills. but still wonderfully accurate on the state of not just “ Death by PowerPoint “, but overall presentation skills in general. View more presentations from www.kapterev.com. MORE
Today, I take a look at some the key moments of my own year in terms of resources, blog posts and presentations I have produced. This is my second blog post reviewing 2011. MORE
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. It takes quite a while to load (guess it’s *huge*), but you can hear the whole hour+. I’d welcome your feedback MORE
Today I gave a webinar presentation on Social & Collaborative Learning. Below is the slideset I made available on Slideshare, but if you would like to read the slide notes and get the links to further resources, you will find them here: Social & Collaborative Learning in the Workplace. Social learning MORE
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Below are the slides from my presentation. Usual disclaimer: these slides are meant to accompany my presentation, not to stand alone. View more presentations from rossdawson. Today I spoke at Australian Chambers Business Congress on Build Your Business with Crowdsourcing. MORE
Key to it is the idea of managing the situated present. If the past is traumatic, as it has been in Colombia (where I am at the moment) then re-situating the past in the context of present needs is important. MORE
Reality 2.0 was my original blog: a pile of stuff I wrote before there were blogs. All of it is old now, but some of it still rings new, connects to what has happened since then, or is going on now. Since Reality 2.0 is deep in the Searls.com basement, I’ve decided to surface some old pieces that might be interesting, for whatever reason. MORE
October is a month on the road… and one stop is Lyon, France, where I’ll be presenting at the third edition of the fOSSa Conference taking place from October 26 to 28, 2011. MORE
Here’s the presentation Today, I am speaking a LearningLive in Birmingham. The topic of my session is “From managing and controlling learning, to enabling and supporting learning&#. I am going to be talking about the ideas in my last two posting: Social learning doesn’t mean what you think it means – Part 1 and Part 2. MORE
157 I uploaded the presentation I’m using to SlideShare here. Tags: social media travel presentations microfinance tech conferences I’m in Bucharest for another IDLO program , showing microfinance experts from the region what social media can do. MORE
100 However one of the most interesting aspects of my keynote is that my visual presentation will consist entirely of motion graphics, 3D, and video – there will be no still images. For many years I have wanted to create an entirely moving graphic presentation. MORE
"I wanted to congratulate you on an excellent NineShift presentation. The annual all-new NineShift presentation, this year in New Orleans, drew a packed room for our latest new prediction about The Coming Building Boom. O'Brien, who sat in the front row for maybe his last NineShift presentation before retiring. They get better every year, and yesterday's was by far the best yet." - Michael Garamoni, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. MORE
Several presentations this next week that might be of interest to readers: 1. Daily presentations starting Oct 21 on MOOCs, OERs, open access, libraries, and more. This presentation will provide a timeline of the development of the MOOC Research Initiative, its goals, the review and selection process, and lessons learned. A framework will be presented that bridges what is known about online learning and what we are learning about MOOCs. MORE
REMEMBER, the last NineShift presentation, the Grand Finale, will be streamed online Live! and Free from Paradise Point Resort in San Diego on Thursday, November 21. No registration needed. Just go to www.lern.org to view it. Noon ET; 11 am CT; 10 am MT; 9 am PT MORE
I just discovered this very interesting presentation tool which is being developed in Budapest. ZuiPrezi is a zooming presentation editor which allows you to easily create dynamic and visually structured zooming maps of texts, images, videos, PDFs, and drawings. MORE
OpenLearning.com , a venture born out of the University of New South Wales ( UNSW ) in Sydney, Australia. Starting this week, you can begin taking two of their courses ( Observing and Analysing Performance in Sport & Services Marketing – The Next Level ). University of Western Australia. By next March, the Perth-based university plans to offer two courses (one in sociology, the other in oceanography) using an adapted version of Stanford’s open source platform, Class2Go. SpanishMooc ? MORE
Are you are looking for a Christmas present for one of your staff? Then why not give them a gift voucher that can be redeemed for a place of their choice on one of the pubic online workshops facilitated by Harold Jarche or me at The Connected Workplace Consultancy in 2014. Here is the schedule [.]. Social learning MORE
143 I fell for an ad today because it promised to tell me four startling things that happen to you before you get a heart attack. The video , which has no pause or fast forward button, is a grating infomercial, with a heavy emphasis on the “mercial.” ” So, here’s the startling information Dr. Chauncey Crandall so selflessly is imparting to us: The four things are: Chest discomfort. MORE
After that presentation (video conference), I meandered over to SAIT where I presented on the Implications of Media and Technology Use among Today’s Learners. Bright and early this morning, I delivered a keynote to University of Windsor on Technology and Tomorrow’s University. Slides are available here. Slides are available here MORE
The final list and presentation is available… Read the rest. Yesterday, I finalised the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2011 list. In the last few days of voting there was a surge of contributions (both online and by email) that brought the number of contributions to 531. Many thanks to everyone who took the time to share their Top 10 Tools and help me compile this, the 5th annual survey of learning tools. Social learning MORE
Nicely shot video of me doing my bit at the Canadian School Of Public Service in Ottawa a couple of weeks ago. My talk starts at 2hrs 30mins in but before that, at around 1hr 2mins, there is a fantastic panel of four women from the school that is one of the best discussions of the real issues in tech that I have seen for a long time. The session was really well received and if you know anyone who is grappling with the issues I raise in my talk do, please, pass this on MORE
First day session at Phoenix and I did a basic presentation. Slides here and no major new things for people familiar with this blog. Slide 3 has some new summary material which covers the following: The importance of the See-Attend-Act model of sense-making. Whether I see the data is an issue of its own right, if I will attend is even hard and getting people to take action is near possible. MORE
Haugesund. Canadian School of Public Service MORE
The key thing though is whether we are all ready to absorb, change and adapt our presentation skills to make even better pitches to engage our audience(s), which, I guess, is what matters at the end of the day… But what happens when you inadvertently kill your own presentation without even knowing? MORE
This past week, in preparation for our upcoming MOOC research conference ( early bird registration ends Oct 31 ), I held two online presentations on a) MOOC Research Initiative (a review of literature, research themes) and b) Lessons MOOCs can learn from online education. MORE
Fall 2008 CLO Symposium. Measuring Success: Learning’s Positive Impact on Business. September 24-26, 2008, Del Coronado, San Diego. I plan to talk about the ROI of informal learning. Future of Talent. October 12-14, 2008. Two dozen top talent management professionals hunker down in Tiburon, California, to take the pulse of talent management, network professionally, and learn some new tricks. All professional events should feel like this! This will be my fourth year as faculty. Hero Camp. MORE
The number of lectures and presentations freely available online provide great opportunities for professional development. Here are a few I’ve recently enjoyed: Hub DE summit Sydney. Learning analytics, soft and hard. Learning Analytics: Notes on the Future. The Future of Learning. MORE
I have for many years intended to develop a full motion graphics presentation. I have long used highly visual presentations to accompany my keynotes, often including numerous videos without sound as well an array of full screen images. MORE
I was reminded of this dictum when recently attending a very interesting workshop, Payment Technologies: Past Present and Future. History can be a useful guide to the future, especially when trying to predict the impact of disruptive changes on human organizations and cultures. MORE
From the early days of the industry, supercomputers have been pushing the boundaries of IT, identifying the key barriers to overcome and experimenting with technologies and architectures that are then incorporated into the overall IT market a few years later. MORE
Yes, I know, another article on the topic of Productivity , although this time around with a slightly different flavour: how can we improve the way we deliver messages through presentations? Whatever happened to all of those meetings, events, presentations, seminars, workshops, etc. MORE
The other evening I went off to hear an intriguing sounding presentation on Positive Payload Weapons by Margarita Quihuis (who really just introduced the session) and Mark Nelson. MORE
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? The audience can be doing things related to the presentation, like live-blogging it, tweeting it, or taking notes (I’ve been known to mindmap a keynote a time or two). MORE
Presentation Related Topics Dave Snowden
JULY 30, 2014
Key to it is the idea of managing the situated present. If the past is traumatic, as it has been in Colombia (where I am at the moment) then re-situating the past in the context of present needs is important.
George Siemens
OCTOBER 27, 2013
This past week, in preparation for our upcoming MOOC research conference ( early bird registration ends Oct 31 ), I held two online presentations on a) MOOC Research Initiative (a review of literature, research themes) and b) Lessons MOOCs can learn from online education.
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NOVEMBER 2, 2018
Nicely shot video of me doing my bit at the Canadian School Of Public Service in Ottawa a couple of weeks ago. My talk starts at 2hrs 30mins in but before that, at around 1hr 2mins, there is a fantastic panel of four women from the school that is one of the best discussions of the real issues in tech that I have seen for a long time. The session was really well received and if you know anyone who is grappling with the issues I raise in my talk do, please, pass this on
David Weinberger
JANUARY 28, 2013
I fell for an ad today because it promised to tell me four startling things that happen to you before you get a heart attack. The video , which has no pause or fast forward button, is a grating infomercial, with a heavy emphasis on the “mercial.” ” So, here’s the startling information Dr. Chauncey Crandall so selflessly is imparting to us: The four things are: Chest discomfort.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
MARCH 13, 2013
I was reminded of this dictum when recently attending a very interesting workshop, Payment Technologies: Past Present and Future. History can be a useful guide to the future, especially when trying to predict the impact of disruptive changes on human organizations and cultures.
Nine Shift
OCTOBER 31, 2019
REMEMBER, the last NineShift presentation, the Grand Finale, will be streamed online Live! and Free from Paradise Point Resort in San Diego on Thursday, November 21. No registration needed. Just go to www.lern.org to view it. Noon ET; 11 am CT; 10 am MT; 9 am PT
George Siemens
MARCH 31, 2011
Haugesund. Canadian School of Public Service
Doc Searls
JANUARY 20, 2012
Reality 2.0 was my original blog: a pile of stuff I wrote before there were blogs. All of it is old now, but some of it still rings new, connects to what has happened since then, or is going on now. Since Reality 2.0 is deep in the Searls.com basement, I’ve decided to surface some old pieces that might be interesting, for whatever reason.
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
JULY 30, 2010
When Jane Hart and I shared our thoughts on social learning at the Irish Learning Showcase in Dublin last week, a formal presentation would have run counter to our message. I intend to propose conversations in lieu of presentations whenever the opportunity presents itself.
Clark Quinn
MAY 25, 2012
The other evening I went off to hear an intriguing sounding presentation on Positive Payload Weapons by Margarita Quihuis (who really just introduced the session) and Mark Nelson.
Jane Hart
MARCH 31, 2015
Twitter turned 9 on 21 March. I’ve been on Twitter since March 2008. After it appeared in No 11 position on the 1st Top 100 Tools for Learning list in 2007, I realised I’d better sign up!
George Siemens
FEBRUARY 19, 2011
The number of lectures and presentations freely available online provide great opportunities for professional development. Here are a few I’ve recently enjoyed: Hub DE summit Sydney. Learning analytics, soft and hard. Learning Analytics: Notes on the Future. The Future of Learning.
Jay Cross
FEBRUARY 28, 2015
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Jane Hart
JANUARY 26, 2012
My colleague Harold Jarche has created the following presentation which brings together some thoughts (in the form of short quotes) about workplace transformation from each the 5 Principals of the Internet Time Alliance (ITA).
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
NOVEMBER 6, 2012
OpenLearning.com , a venture born out of the University of New South Wales ( UNSW ) in Sydney, Australia. Starting this week, you can begin taking two of their courses ( Observing and Analysing Performance in Sport & Services Marketing – The Next Level ). University of Western Australia. By next March, the Perth-based university plans to offer two courses (one in sociology, the other in oceanography) using an adapted version of Stanford’s open source platform, Class2Go. SpanishMooc ?
Jane Hart
DECEMBER 7, 2013
Are you are looking for a Christmas present for one of your staff? Then why not give them a gift voucher that can be redeemed for a place of their choice on one of the pubic online workshops facilitated by Harold Jarche or me at The Connected Workplace Consultancy in 2014. Here is the schedule [.]. Social learning
George Siemens
OCTOBER 18, 2013
Several presentations this next week that might be of interest to readers: 1. Daily presentations starting Oct 21 on MOOCs, OERs, open access, libraries, and more. This presentation will provide a timeline of the development of the MOOC Research Initiative, its goals, the review and selection process, and lessons learned. A framework will be presented that bridges what is known about online learning and what we are learning about MOOCs.
Nine Shift
DECEMBER 13, 2015
"I wanted to congratulate you on an excellent NineShift presentation. The annual all-new NineShift presentation, this year in New Orleans, drew a packed room for our latest new prediction about The Coming Building Boom. O'Brien, who sat in the front row for maybe his last NineShift presentation before retiring. They get better every year, and yesterday's was by far the best yet." - Michael Garamoni, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 30, 2009
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? The audience can be doing things related to the presentation, like live-blogging it, tweeting it, or taking notes (I’ve been known to mindmap a keynote a time or two).
Ross Dawson
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
I have for many years intended to develop a full motion graphics presentation. I have long used highly visual presentations to accompany my keynotes, often including numerous videos without sound as well an array of full screen images.
Adaptive Path
JULY 19, 2010
From time to time, we find ourselves in a position to share these ideas in a business context, often in the form of a presentation. When designing your presentation, remember that good stories offer questions and answers and key moments of reflection. We communicate with other people every day. Over the course of our lives we’ve developed verbal, written and visual communication skills that help us convey our thoughts.
Jane Hart
NOVEMBER 14, 2011
The final list and presentation is available… Read the rest. Yesterday, I finalised the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2011 list. In the last few days of voting there was a surge of contributions (both online and by email) that brought the number of contributions to 531. Many thanks to everyone who took the time to share their Top 10 Tools and help me compile this, the 5th annual survey of learning tools. Social learning
Luis Suarez
APRIL 13, 2011
I am sure that you would probably still remember how a couple of weeks back I put together a blog post where I shared a good number of resources with plenty of hints and tips on helping “ Improve Your Presentation Skills “ No wonder. Are you ready for some more Presentation Zen?
Jane Hart
DECEMBER 29, 2011
Today, I take a look at some the key moments of my own year in terms of resources, blog posts and presentations I have produced. This is my second blog post reviewing 2011.
Jerry Michalski
JULY 22, 2008
I uploaded the presentation I’m using to SlideShare here. Tags: social media travel presentations microfinance tech conferences I’m in Bucharest for another IDLO program , showing microfinance experts from the region what social media can do.
Jay Cross
AUGUST 27, 2008
Fall 2008 CLO Symposium. Measuring Success: Learning’s Positive Impact on Business. September 24-26, 2008, Del Coronado, San Diego. I plan to talk about the ROI of informal learning. Future of Talent. October 12-14, 2008. Two dozen top talent management professionals hunker down in Tiburon, California, to take the pulse of talent management, network professionally, and learn some new tricks. All professional events should feel like this! This will be my fourth year as faculty. Hero Camp.
Nine Shift
JUNE 23, 2011
Check it out. My brilliant co-author Julie, formerly known as the Fabulous Brochure Babe and now known as Gadget Girl, did her first Prezi presentation. But the presentation got rave reviews.
Dave Snowden
NOVEMBER 8, 2010
First day session at Phoenix and I did a basic presentation. Slides here and no major new things for people familiar with this blog. Slide 3 has some new summary material which covers the following: The importance of the See-Attend-Act model of sense-making. Whether I see the data is an issue of its own right, if I will attend is even hard and getting people to take action is near possible.
Ross Dawson
JUNE 3, 2011
Below are the slides from my presentation. Usual disclaimer: these slides are meant to accompany my presentation, not to stand alone. View more presentations from rossdawson. Today I spoke at Australian Chambers Business Congress on Build Your Business with Crowdsourcing.
Jay Cross
AUGUST 23, 2009
On Friday, I gave my first Ignite presentation on stage to an audience of 300 at Gnomedex in Seattle. Afterward, a fellow came who had judged presentations by a group of physicists on the same topic told me I presented more information in five minutes than the scientists covered in a hour.
Nancy White
OCTOBER 9, 2011
October is a month on the road… and one stop is Lyon, France, where I’ll be presenting at the third edition of the fOSSa Conference taking place from October 26 to 28, 2011.
Luis Suarez
MARCH 29, 2011
Yes, of course, I am talking about learning plenty more about killer presentation skills. but still wonderfully accurate on the state of not just “ Death by PowerPoint “, but overall presentation skills in general. View more presentations from www.kapterev.com.
Jane Hart
AUGUST 22, 2012
Today I gave a webinar presentation on Social & Collaborative Learning. Below is the slideset I made available on Slideshare, but if you would like to read the slide notes and get the links to further resources, you will find them here: Social & Collaborative Learning in the Workplace. Social learning
George Siemens
MAY 13, 2010
After that presentation (video conference), I meandered over to SAIT where I presented on the Implications of Media and Technology Use among Today’s Learners. Bright and early this morning, I delivered a keynote to University of Windsor on Technology and Tomorrow’s University. Slides are available here. Slides are available here
Luis Suarez
JULY 10, 2012
Yes, I know, another article on the topic of Productivity , although this time around with a slightly different flavour: how can we improve the way we deliver messages through presentations? Whatever happened to all of those meetings, events, presentations, seminars, workshops, etc.
Harold Jarche
APRIL 28, 2010
I am presenting at Tlt2010 in Saskatoon this morning. View more presentations from Harold Jarche. I’ve really enjoyed the presentations by my co-presenters, Scott Leslie and David Wiley and of course their insights and comments had me making last-minute changes this morning.
Ross Dawson
APRIL 23, 2012
However one of the most interesting aspects of my keynote is that my visual presentation will consist entirely of motion graphics, 3D, and video – there will be no still images. For many years I have wanted to create an entirely moving graphic presentation.
Nancy White
JUNE 28, 2011
I was able to be really present. View more presentations from Nancy White. View more presentations from Nancy White. It is hard to say “no&# to friends. It is harder yet to predict what will happen when you say “yes.&# When you will stumble upon a magic moment.
Clark Quinn
MAY 28, 2008
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. It takes quite a while to load (guess it’s *huge*), but you can hear the whole hour+. I’d welcome your feedback
Dave Gray
AUGUST 13, 2008
I just discovered this very interesting presentation tool which is being developed in Budapest. ZuiPrezi is a zooming presentation editor which allows you to easily create dynamic and visually structured zooming maps of texts, images, videos, PDFs, and drawings.
Jane Hart
SEPTEMBER 14, 2011
Here’s the presentation Today, I am speaking a LearningLive in Birmingham. The topic of my session is “From managing and controlling learning, to enabling and supporting learning&#. I am going to be talking about the ideas in my last two posting: Social learning doesn’t mean what you think it means – Part 1 and Part 2.
Luis Suarez
JANUARY 10, 2013
The key thing though is whether we are all ready to absorb, change and adapt our presentation skills to make even better pitches to engage our audience(s), which, I guess, is what matters at the end of the day… But what happens when you inadvertently kill your own presentation without even knowing?
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