Nancy Dusarte's 5 Rules for Creating Great Presentations

I would like to share with you the website of Nancy Dusarte, who changed the slides Al Gore had originally into the documentary slide show known as An Inconvenient Truth. You can find many good examples of great presentations and some useful guidelines about what's good or bad for a presentation. I pick up here one of her instructions about 5 Rules for Creating Great Presentations, which I found very useful:

Matthew Childs' 9 life lessons from rock climbing | Video on TED.com

Matthew Childs' 9 life lessons from rock climbing | Video on TED.com:

Here's a five-minute TedTalk that I don't think any of you have seen! I know that at least one of you loves rock-climbing.... Nice ideas for New Year resolutions! Leave a comment on the blog post to say what you think.

See you next year!

james

"In this talk from TED University 2009, veteran rock climber Matthew Childs shares nine pointers for rock climbing. These handy tips bear on an effective life at sea level, too."

Get out of your man box

At TEDWomen, Tony Porter makes a call to men everywhere: Don't "act like a man." Telling powerful stories from his own life, he shows how this mentality, drummed into so many men and boys, can lead men to disrespect, mistreat and abuse women and each other. His solution: Break free of the "man box."

The end of men

Hanna Rosin reviews startling new data that shows women actually surpassing men in several important measures, such as college graduation rates. Do these trends, both US-centric and global, signal the "end of men"? Probably not -- but they point toward an important societal shift worth deep discussion.

Tom Wujec: Build a tower, build a team | Video on TED.com

Tom Wujec: Build a tower, build a team | Video on TED.com:

What a better idea for a first post to our blog than sharing a TedTalk that I had never seen and discovered thanks to the MNT "IT in English" group.

The "Marshmellow Problem" was something I had heard about but didn't know about the TedTalk presenting it!

I'm sure that of the 700 TedTalks already online there are many that members of our MNT English groups can share and help the others discover....

Here's the Marshmellow Problem...





Leave a comment to say what you think. See you all tomorrow. James

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