The current count of slides for my workshop at the @bigideadsedu next week has just crept north of 75. Here’s to hoping the attendees aren’t asleep by number 25. A couple of sneak peeks at how they’re shaping up. Want to see more? Hire us for a workshop at your business/school/backyard pool party.
With the earliest of apologies to those who attend my workshop, I have been asked to present at The Big Ideas in Higher Education Conference being held at Rutgers University next month. I will be doing my best to help educators understand the importance of having quality supporting materials when they are presenting lessons/lectures/seminars/etc. What it boils down to is training them on the why’s and how’s of using programs like PowerPoint effectively.
I’m honored to have been asked and am looking forward to the session. Feel free to check out the great line-up of speakers they have and get your money ready for the prop-bets to ensue on how badly I flop in comparison to each of them.
If you’re in the education arena and are interested in coming to the conference, I believe there are still some seats available, sign up here.
Related, if you’re in the NYC/NJ area the third week of May and what to connect while I am around, hit me up.
Need Supply channeled their innermost Wes Anderson for their Spring/Summer 2012 video lookbook. So good.
Spring Video 2012 from Need Supply Co. on Vimeo.
via Need Supply
I’ve had these images bookmarked for probably six months and each time I look at it I become more fond of each. Now you can do the same.
An explanation:
…‚Äòwrapping‚Äô trees with white material to construct a visual relationship between tree, not-tree and the line of horizon according to the camera‚Äôs viewpoint.
View the rest: Zander Olsen – Tree, Line.
I had the pleasure of once again publishing a piece for the Read & Trust Newsletter this morning – of which you might be interested in signing up for – which triggered my thinking that it’s probably OK if I actually share some of my previous work I’ve submitted for it. Maybe the statute of limitations has run out on one or two of them and you can get a taste of what you just might be missing out on. Hope it doesn’t get me a seat on the bench.
Here is a piece I did late last Spring on the topic Quality vs Quantity. Instead of doing a straight written piece on the subject, I chose to go a different route and describe my thoughts on quality vs quantity in sketch form. As you can tell, I work with a mouse and a keyboard for a living, not a pencil and paper. I also followed Shawn Blanc by a week on the same subject and by my rough calculations, he was most definitely the winner.
If you’re on the fence about subscribing, I’d encourage you to give it a go. I’m definitely the weakest link in the chain.
Excerpt from Quality vs Quantity
The Movie Test
Nothing says, “I’m ready to settle in for a viewing of The Devil Wears Prada or 29 Dresses,” like a bag of popcorn. My arteries know that quality should win out here but if you think I’m settling for some weak, butter-free, half-bag of kernals, you are sorely mistaken. I’ll take the jumbo-mega-super-large bag with extra butter. It’s the only one that comes with free refills.
Winner: Quantity
