You are — perhaps — the ONLY public school teacher out here (today?) in the blogosphere who has the potential of dramatically improving how so many well-intentioned instructors integrate ‘presentation’ techniques that are so often thrown-under-the-bus in traditional bullet point style. Granted, many others are rushing towards the podcasting and other 2.0 waterfalls, but there is something still magical about understanding the power of a single image, esp. given the reality that PPt may still be the only digital tool that most teachers can really integrate tomorrow morning at 8am.

You, of course, possess instinct, training, skill, and vision in terms of graphic design (and much more) that will NOT transfer to the average teacher. But, reinforcing the power of ‘images’ as being catalysts for ‘stories’ or ‘stats’ or ‘facts’ or ‘questions’ that the presenter/teacher wishes to share his her/his audience/students is something you can uniquely impart.

Small potatoes, I know. But if you can inspire well-intentioned teachers to use images as sparks in inverse proportion to the letting-go of bullet points, I would be the first to buy a ticket to your future end-of-career celebration banquet.

Good stuff (in other words). Keep it up. It’s appreciated on many fronts.

Cheers,
Christian

‘Course, when you’re in a school where it’s a major production to get a PowerPoint presentation set up (reserve the lab! make sure nobody’s stolen the projector! put signs on the door telling everyone where you’re meeting!) it’s sort of a moot point.