I’ve been working on my “professional” context presentation,
and thought it could be useful to share the way I work. It’s a kind of
unstructured structuredness somehow!
Everything I do starts off with a kind of fag
packet approach. I have to write things down to get the thought process going.
Then I do kind of spider diagrams and scribble on these in layers… so perhaps
my often-layered creative work has the same root somewhere in the primordial
soup of my brain. So the approach to this presentation was the same, as shown
below in pages from my notebook. I then started researching actual facts and
figures and pulling these together.
Then the structure itself started to become clear
to me. I grouped the ideas around central themes. This is also always a facet
of how I work. The notebook page below shows this. It’s interesting that what I
scribbled below wasn’t too far from how the actual presentation turned out.
These are a couple of other pages starting to note
what needs to go with each slide and to work out how the networking and
collaboration bits were going to fit in. At this stage I was doing lots of
drafting and moving around of slides. It took a while for this middle bit of
this presentation to settle into place.
I worked on the content of the slides and the
script at the same time. This helped me to get a feel for what I could and
couldn’t include, given the timeframe of 10 minutes. To be quite honest, I’ve
done lots of presentations in my previous professional life so I had an idea at
the outset how much material I would need to generate to fill, but not
overfill, the time.
The scripts and slides have now been incorporated
into my week 9 blogpost on the presentation, so anyone reading this can see how
it finally turned out!
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