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Structuring a Presentation: planning for success

What makes for a good presentation? This question is perhaps the key to getting it right. I’ve spent years working with colleagues in workshops on creating ‘dynamic presentations.’ Most needed assistance with the basics: how to stand and deliver (with or without a slideshow backing them), and how to integrate the interesting part (them and

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Conference Presentations and Serendipity

Update: In the 2 plus years since I wrote this post, live blogging during a conference presentation has been overtaken by the even livelier Twitter, which forms a back-channel to most presentations nowadays. Comment on the fly with hashtags makes following, interaction, and searching easier and the whole thing is much more dynamic. Twitter was

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Note Taking Refined: the Cornell Method: Updated 2 March 2008

I came across this neat way of taking notes some time back, but it’s come back again like a boomerang! Perhaps it’s the time of year when students in Queensland are starting to eye the calendar nervously. The jacaranda trees are putting out the first blue blooms … a traditional sign that exams are round

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