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The TED Commandments – Zen style
Category: Classroom, Software, learning, teachingWith the support of Garr Reynold’s Presentation Zen book and website and a few other people, we are all gradually overcoming the Death by Powerpoint syndrome. The message still has a way to travel as I was reminded in seeing the work of some senior students this week.
Garr Reynolds has modelled many of his ideas on the sleek and snappy TED: Ideas worth spreading talks in which presenters have just 18 minutes to get their message across. If you get to present on TED you are no slouch, so one would imagine you would have heaps to say about the passionate message that has got you there, not allowed however, you only have 18 minutes.
Today Garr has blogged about Making presentations Zen style and given us a list of the 10 TED commandments that are given to presenters preparing their TED Talks.
Thank you for mentioning Garr in your post. I work for Peachpit Press and thought you and your readers might be interested in knowing that he just released his first online streaming video, Presentation Zen: The Video, where he expands on the ideas presented in his book and blog. More info can be found here: http://www.peachpit.com/zenvideo
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Thanks for this reminder about the SlideSare presentation and the information about the TEDCommandments.I had be thinking about some presentations made by our students (as well the expectations of teachers) and considering how best I can help them do justice to the information they want to discuss/present. This gives me a few ideas.