Dear colleagues
I am posting my homework and hope you will find some interesting reading too.
One of specialities I am actively teaching in the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences (EASS) is rescue. Due to this fact I chose the presentation which introduces disaster management. The first part of the presentation is made by David Bruce (the presentation has 3 speakers all in all). The presentation can be found on the following link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEh9mDULMSs
There are 3 presenters for this particular presentation, what makes it slightly different from the traditional presentations. The first speaker tells his name and starts a video clip (regular activities of the disaster management people in case of crisis/catastrophy) which runs around 5 minutes. After the video the speaker makes a comment about the cell phones, which must be switched to a different mode, and starts to introduce himself and the other two plenary speakers. The facts and data about the presenters can be seen on the slides, which makes it easy to follow him. He continues by introducing the format of the presentation. The thing I really liked was that every part of the presentation was having a time limit, so it was good to know how much time will be spent for each part. After this the speaker started to explain what is a disaster and how can the disasters be categorized. He used quite some pictures to illustrate it all. As the slides were pretty full of text and he was mostly reading the text out from the slides, it definitely did not give him positive points, as the contact between him and the audience was much weaker during that time.
Evelyn
It's a good video, as it's from a conference, not a TED-talk (that is always very carefully prepared), therefore we can pick some everyday expressions used to organise an event ("We'll not gonna take questions now, we'll going to listen to Scott and then have a discussion.", explaining how asking questions is organised at about 58.10 etc), also get used to 'normal' tempo of speaking.
ReplyDeleteThe slides look a bit too crowded for me, it's hard to listen and read at the same time, but that's a good example of how to do things a bit differently, then?
So - I agree with Evelyn.
It can also be used to draw students' attention to noticing how an event is organised and which phrases are used to introduce a speaker, to invite the audience to participate etc.