E-flections

The presentation on blogs and educating the eflective practitioner  seems to be going down well and has been picked up by Joan Vinal Cox on her blog Web tools for Learners .

You can see it directly from the player on the right hand side of the page.

I have to admit though that the look of the deck is heavily influenced by Garr Reynolds and his ‘Presentation Zen’ philosophy to make powerpoints etc more visual and direct. I ruthlessly pared down the text to one word per slide in most cases, and made the font as big as possible – went thru the whole thing dozens of times each time making the point size bigger!

The images are almost all mine, except for a couple from ex students of mine and a couple from flikr creative commons, so it helps that I have a lifetimes’ worth of stock images to call on. 

But the real fun comes with trying to match the message with the image, thats the creative part!

I wholeheartedly recommend Garr’s approach and his book, it really did change my approach to the extent that my university now want me to do some staff development in making presentations more visual