Remember the power point glory days? You know, the time when you could give a super boring bullet-point filled presentation and not lose 99% of your audience. The web’s not like that. I mean, it’s really really not like that. Even some awesome 5 minute slide driven presentations don’t work well on the web. We […]
Secret Last Page from Matt Keene’s Missing the Fruit for the Ladder
Matt Keene, internationally famous coordinator of the Environmental Evaluators Network, is this week’s American Evaluation Association Thought Leader. He’s leading a discussion on this question: How does evaluation fit into the story of civilization? To help get things going Matt took a creative approach and put together a children’s book titled Missing the Fruit for […]
Moving Beyond the Webinar: Four Approaches to Take Your Web Presentation to the Next Level
How often do you find yourself participating in a webinar where the presenter drones on for an hour then finishes with no time for questions? You start to wonder, why not just record the thing and let the audience decide when they want to watch? Oh, that’s right, because if the recording is just a […]
Why Blog? My 5 minute Ignite talk at AEA
My Ignite talk from last November’s AEA conference is now up on the Ignite website! I’m embedding it here if you’re interested. It’s only 5 mins so not much of a time commitment. Also, speaking of blogging. AEA365’s series on Evaluators who blog continues this week.
Friday Diversion: The child-driven education
I was home alone last night, my wife and daughter are off visiting family. To pass the time I ended up watching a string of TED talks. All were solid, but this one by Sugata Mitra was my favorite. Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education — the best teachers […]
Moved by a Story
When was the last time that you watched something on TV that really moved you? I saw this talk by Ed Gavagan on The Moth yesterday. I found it so powerful that by the end I was on the verge of tears. Ultimately, it made me think about the ways in which the web changes […]
Shorter Videos = Better Results
One of the keys to better web presentations is understanding that longer is not better. Short works well for a number of reasons. Check out this award winning short: Vital Voices: Kakenya. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR66wYYJrpM]
Re-imagining the Online Conference
My experiences with online conferences have, to this point, been mostly underwhelming. The online format just does not seem to capture the essence of the live in-person event…well, at least in its current form. To really capture the essence of a conference we need to re-think what an online conference should look like, based on […]
Moving Beyond the Slides: Video Presentations
It has never been easier to capture, edit, and share video. There is a huge range of video camera options from expensive high quality digital to the small, affordable, fit in your pocket variety. While not incredibly sophisticated, both windows and mac users have access to free video editing software. Finally, with services like youtube […]
Why the Webcast?
By now you have probably sat through your fair share of webcasts. If your experience is anything like my own, you have seen a few good ones and many bad ones. So what makes a web presentation go so wrong? I would say its often the choice of the format in the first place. Have […]