The UBC Terry Project has a swell idea: bring 8 of UBC's most fascinating and engaging students together for a day, where they can give the talk of their lives to 350 of their peers.
If this sounds familiar, it's because the conference is intentionally modeled on the wonderful TED conferences. Unlike TED, you don't have to be a Nobel laureate, write a best-seller or cure cancer -- you just have to be a UBC student willing to go for it.
Even for us non-UBCers, the following short (1:49) promo video from the Terry Project provides a great presentation workshop all by itself on Things to Avoid When Speaking Publicly.
(via Pharyngula)
Showing posts with label TED. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TED. Show all posts
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Friday, August 8, 2008
A Tale of Two Brains
One of my lifelong quests is to learn to give presentations that don't suck.
One tactic in this quest is to learn from people who give exceptional talks. A great source for awesome presentations is the TED conference, which hosts the best speakers in the world and shares them on the web.
In the following TED video, neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor gives a play by play account of her own stroke. There's a lot to learn here. Her insights from this devastating event are quite compelling. Equally compelling are the techniques she uses to tell this gripping tale of two brains.
One tactic in this quest is to learn from people who give exceptional talks. A great source for awesome presentations is the TED conference, which hosts the best speakers in the world and shares them on the web.
In the following TED video, neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor gives a play by play account of her own stroke. There's a lot to learn here. Her insights from this devastating event are quite compelling. Equally compelling are the techniques she uses to tell this gripping tale of two brains.
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