Nice presentation skills blog & site
This one’s new for me, so thought I’d share: here’s a useful new blog called Presentation Zen, by Garr Reynolds of Apple. The blog’s new, so there aren’t that many posts, but what’s up so far is excellent. He’s got an analysis of presentation styles by renown presenters such as Guy Kawasaki and Seth Godin, and even some authentic audio clips…I haven’t listened yet, but I’ll bet they’ll be great for our BE students.
And better yet, on Garr Reynold’s personal site, an exellent resource section on presentation building. It’s really strong on slide styles and design (just what you’d expect from an Apple guy). That won’t help our students who suffer from the curse of multinational company presentations, the PowerPoint deck, sent pre-formatted from HQ. But even decks often have some wiggle room and students can slip a slide or two of their own into the deck - here’s how to make ‘em count.
Nice resource, and timely too. I’m teaching a class this fall semester called ‘Presentation English’. Looks like we’ll be drawing upon some of the wisdom there. Thanks.
Comment by aaron — September 30, 2005 @ 3:18 am
Thanks for this great link.
Comment by Sarolta — October 10, 2005 @ 4:08 pm
Yeah, that’s a great resources. To be honest, it was one of the resources that made me want to start our blog. There’s quite a lot of overlap but ours is more about how-to-do-it rather than commenting on what other people are doing.
The stuff on Presentation Zen comparing Bill G’s Microsoft presentations with those coming from the Apple camp are fantastic, arent’ they!
S
Comment by Simon Raybould — June 17, 2006 @ 6:20 am
Dunno how I did it - I obviously wasn’t concentrating! - but I screwed up the link in my comment there…. I meant to link to http://www.curved-vision.co.uk/presentation-skills-blog
Sorry!
Comment by Simon Raybould — July 2, 2006 @ 5:16 pm