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

I’ve been working on applying blogging to developing Donald Schon’s concept of the reflective practitioner and his idea of the practicum as a 

‘virtual world, relatively free of the pressures, distractions, and risks of the real one, to which, nevertheless it refers. It stands in the intermediate space between the practice world, the ‘lay world’ of ordinary life, and the esoteric world of the academy’ (Schon, 1987 p37).

This is a space to build a community of practice, where the processes of problem solving, experimentation, coaching and building a professional repertoire of experiences can be undertaken. Blogs can act as the ‘glue’ to hold these activities together, acting as a reflective commentary on the practitioner’s growth.

My argument is that blogs provide a perfect vehicle for reflection and critical self-awareness, and as such they provide the possibility of what I term the eflective practitioner, because of their unique qualities that raise them above traditional learning journals.

The key reasons for this are that they map the learning journey in real time; they are deeply personal, giving a whole person view; they use rich media that becomes searchable and reconfigurable using tagging; they are portable and easy to access; they encourage dialogue, interaction with an audience and peer group feedback; and they are emotional and playful too. They also give great insights into how learners learn, articulating how experience is transformed into learning.  

I’ve posted a presentation on this that is a modified version of my Wimba talk that I also gave at the designs on e learning conference 2008 at Penn State here at slideshare