tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post4649423899955036094..comments2024-03-28T00:36:36.460-07:00Comments on The Tree of Life: Why I don't like to pre-submit slides for talks - lessons from #AAASMoBE meetingJonathan Eisenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07953790938128734305noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-80322173574173750472014-04-02T23:18:51.325-07:002014-04-02T23:18:51.325-07:00Well this made my day ... I note ... I am teaching...Well this made my day ... I note ... I am teaching a giant class now at UC Davis (700+ students) and I am drawing out every "lecture" by hand first ...Jonathan Eisenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07953790938128734305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-3845289335572877012014-04-02T16:07:37.949-07:002014-04-02T16:07:37.949-07:00Thank you for this. My student is giving a talk at...Thank you for this. My student is giving a talk at a Dept. Graduate Student colloquium on Friday and the organizers wanted the powerpoint yesterday! I told her this rarely happens in "real life", but when it does, it's completely annoying. But what is most useful about this post is the notion that ppt (or whatever visual aid we choose to use) is merely that, an aid. I think most people (myself sometimes included, but esp. students) go into preparing a talk as a series of ppt slides to talk around. I tell my students (and myself), to first ask yourself, what is the STORY you want to tell? Formulate it. Then, put together the visuals that will help you tell the story. Great post- and also great timing as I just had this EXACT conversation with my student last night (and she also enjoyed the post!). Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00602495995431671861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-18825172260970309382014-03-30T12:46:47.689-07:002014-03-30T12:46:47.689-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.RAH1https://www.blogger.com/profile/03569187466765129332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-11401726085524257762014-03-30T09:12:54.804-07:002014-03-30T09:12:54.804-07:00Harold Scheraga's keynote at the 2000 ISMB con...Harold Scheraga's keynote at the 2000 ISMB conference (San Diego) was *all* handwritten overhead transparencies. Some may think today that that was common back then, but it sure hadn't been back then any more than it is today. I guess it helps to have a well-established career and a couple of prestigious awards to pull that off :-)<br /><br />-Hilmar (not sure why Google claims I'm "unknown")Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13672481660304884230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-65632630871767054672014-03-30T09:10:17.404-07:002014-03-30T09:10:17.404-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13672481660304884230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-86325258629471425252014-03-29T19:49:17.846-07:002014-03-29T19:49:17.846-07:00When I was a postdoc in a computer science departm...When I was a postdoc in a computer science department about 15 years ago, writing on overhead transparencies during the talk was the standard way computer scientists gave their talks. It was a bit of a culture shock for me coming from a microbiology department where people used slides (and until 1995 or so, actual real physical slides on film!). Impromptu "chalk talks" are beginning to make inroads in biology, perhaps as a reaction against the sterility of powerpoint "bullet" talks. Jonathan Badgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04921990886076027719noreply@blogger.com