Comments on: Expecting The Worst

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:10:35 +0000

Dan, hope it goes well, will you be posting this presentation?

By: ken

ken — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:23:19 +0000

Dan , So I’m doing a webinar tomorrow for teachers and Tech Coaches in PA, and of course, I have a PowerPoint. I’ve spent time on it, design and organization, rehearsal and timing, but giving a webinar always has a massive feeling of disconnectedness. I have no concept of audience reaction and any hope of hands-on activities go bye-bye. It’s like speaking in a cave. Where’s the reward in that?

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:58:24 +0000

Oh, I wish I’d be at Asilomar. Sadly my school’s not big on conferences unless they’re on Native culture (even when they’re local). California’s too far away. My comment just meant that I have looked at your old slide deck. (And feel like I listened to audio with it. Did I just dream that up?)

By: dan

dan — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:16:19 +0000

@Jenn, bummer you won't be there. It'd be a kick to see how we've changed our methods since UCD. I sort of suspect I'm a Friday speaker on account of my unknown status to CMC although maybe I'm out on the fringe because they know things. @Sarah, sick, you'll be at Asilomar? It's the same presentation, re-tooled a great deal. Buyer beware. @Hai, I'll post a few resources to the web. The Slideshare files are already online, for instance. @Dean or anyone: what is the best way to record my session audio? I have an iPhone, my MacBook's onboard mic, a bluetooth headset, etc. @Ken, the 70+ hours include the evolution of this preso over two sessions. Fair to say, I take the visual organization of the thing as seriously as I do the textual organization, tweaking images and alignment as much as I do whole activities. It's like my bonsai tree. I get a Zen-like satisfaction from pruning.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:52:34 +0000

Love the title…I’m sure I’m not the only one who can’t make this conference but whose curiosity has been piqued here…any thoughts to putting your slides up somewhere so the rest of us can benefit from your hard work and great ideas??? Might result in some added discussion and more ideas being generated…

Just a thought. Best wishes for a great presentation. :-)

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:57:29 +0000

Oh just go ahead and be cool by using your iphone and have your laptop for backup! Why not?

By: ken

ken — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:03:07 +0000

Start with a story.
Identify a problem.
Pose a solution.

Hope you wow your audience and make them feel validated for attending. You’d hate for them to leave thinking, ‘ugh…why did I waste my time’.

Although, curiously, does time spent in prep have any correlation to audience approval?

Is the 70+hours spent on prep more for you or the audience? I mean, if you’re confident and competent with your content, is 70+ hours a tad egregious?

Either way, I’m sure I’d attend. And I wouldn’t Twitter at all (at least during the session).

By: Dean Shareski

Dean Shareski — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:05:11 +0000

So you really do take the whole presentation/conference thing seriously? I hope you devise some means of sharing it beyond the conference. Would love to see some audio along with your obviously spectacularly designed slide deck.

By: Hai Evans

Hai Evans — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:53:01 +0000

Will you be posting your presentation on the web? I am a graduate student getting my M.Ed. to teach secondary math. I would love to see your pesentation.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:52:02 +0000

I understand the iphone backup. I still love my ipod classic because I have iwork and the presentation on it (or imovie and the presentation), just in case for situations like this.