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IN THIS, ONLY POLAR BEAR CUBS ARE DROWNED
One of Al Gore’s climate zombies has produced a version of An Inconvenient Truth for kids. Broadway, interpretive dance, and X-rated versions will presumably follow.
Kids care a great deal about the environment, Shimizu said, and families will go home with ideas for small changes they can make.
“Mommy, how can we buy carbon offsets, too?”
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2007 03 12 at 08:27 AM • permalinkMEILF: Mother Earth I’d Like to Fuck.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 03 12 at 08:37 AM • permalinkOh, what a load of horse shit. So this cretin dumbs-down (as if that were possible) Gorebel’s 300-slide Death-by-PowerPoint to an 80-slide show for the kiddies?
The full presentation features some 300 slides; Shimizu cut it to 80 slides to keep kids’ attention. “It’s a basic Earth science lesson,” she said. “It gets kids excited about science because it’s fun and interesting.”
Yeah, and the fact that its total bullshit is pretty much irrelevant, huh?
Shimizu, a programming assistant for community public radio station KEXP-FM(90.3)
Now who can argue with a scientific qualification such as this?
What, no Lifetime Channel version?
Global Warming: It’s Men’s fault
“A young woman struggles to try and save polar bears from global warming but is thwarted by an abusive father and unfaithful husband and in an ironic twist winds up eaten by a female polar bear who is using food to compensate for a lack of having a male polar bear in her life.”#8 Yes, but not nearly as good as Forest Hump, bondo. (A Greenpiece production IIRC.)
BTW, I wonder if Lisa now awakens screamng in the night, “We’re all dead! We’re all DEAD, mommy!” and if her grades have gone in the tank?
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 03 12 at 09:42 AM • permalink#8, #10: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Poon
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 03 12 at 09:45 AM • permalinkI do a lot of briefings and training, and use PowerPoint for this. As a rule of thumb, I assume 1 minute per slide, plus 10 minutes for questions at the end. This allows me enough time to address the points on each slide, and answer quick questions. That 1 minute is an average, but it works out fairly well. I only run over when I lose control of the topic (happens when you brief The Boss).
Of course, this rule of thumb is for an audience that I know, and I often spend some time targeting and tailoring the presentation accordingly. This only increases when the audience is unknown, or the material is new.
So if I had a show with 80 slides, I’m looking at a minimum of a 90 minute presentation. Personally, I hate having more than 30-40 slides per session, as that takes about an hour, and people have a hard time concentrating on slides more than that. “Bored” is perhaps too strong a word, but I can’t think of any better ones. Call it two hours, with a short break in between.
So when Shimizu says she is going to present 80 slides in 40 minutes, I know that she is not doing a decent job. She will throw a slide on the screen, say a sentence or two, and then move to the next. Rapid fire, to say the least. If the kids don’t know the subject, it’s all going to be emotive and visual, focusing on pictures and broad statements to make her point. She can’t allow any questions, and will have to rely on the hands-on session afterwards for those. If any.
I can’t call this “brain washing”, but I certainly can’t call it “education”. At least, not by any standards that I know.
It’s possible that the children will already be familiar with this topic (it’s Seattle, which is getting bluer than San Francisco), in which case, Shimizu is preaching to the choir.
In either case, I am not impressed,
(BTW, I shuddered when I heard Algore’s presentation was 300 slides long….you’d have to dose me to the gills with thorazine to make me sit through something like that.)
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 03 12 at 09:51 AM • permalinkhmmmm.
Eco-porn.
Might be a hard sell. Probably a back-door arrangement. Might require mounds of cash. Perhaps a little sweat-equity will see it through.
Jesus, I’m coming - to invest.
[quickly punches speed dial for broker]
Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2007 03 12 at 10:02 AM • permalinkThe Real JeffS—it’s not like they like questions anyway. Global Warming Critic Gets Death Threats
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 03 12 at 10:42 AM • permalink“Eco-porn”! I like it!
The term, I mean, not the content. A very apt description of what Algore and Shimizu are putting out (pun intended).
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 03 12 at 11:12 AM • permalinkThe_Real_JeffS: Heh, I’m in a university that thrives on presentations (so far this term? 4 presentations). And personally, I rarely put more than 6 words on a slide—I don’t want a note-taking audience (I’ll give them handouts later), or an audience dying to know what was my previous point. The less unneeded stuff on the screen the better.
And that seems to be Gore’s presentation style—notice how rarely he has on the screen. But before you blame the medium, Gore can be just as deceptive (or deluded or whatever) without any slides at all.
I mean, if the point is to solely inform, just give the kids a report, maybe throw in a few cartoon pictures to make them read it.
Although then your point stands, they aren’t educating, they’re selling.
And personally, I rarely put more than 6 words on a slide—I don’t want a note-taking audience (I’ll give them handouts later)....
I take your point, Rajan, that the medium is not to blame. I tried to put my focus was on her technique, which amounts to (as you put it) selling, not education. It’s clear that she is using the slide show to reinforce her sales pitch.
As a side note, I do go for minimum text, usually highlights on my talking points. And I provide handouts so that they need not take notes, especially when there’s a lot of material. I try to spend that minute communicating, and use the slide show to reinforce my point. As opposed to that age old technique of just reading from the slide (zzzzzzzzzzzz….). Been there, done that, way too many times!
Since a lot of my source material is from text, graphics don’t always work. So I have to compromise.Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 03 12 at 01:42 PM • permalinkPS: In the military, boring briefings are referred to as “Death by PowerPoint”. :-D
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 03 12 at 01:45 PM • permalink...it’s not like they like questions anyway.
So I read, richard. Joy, now we have the All Volunteer Environmental Secret Police™.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 03 12 at 01:46 PM • permalinkThe jury’s still out on this one. I’m very sceptical though.
Posted by Miranda Divide on 2007 03 12 at 11:05 PM • permalinkI hears ya, Rajah, and I feels yer pain. I truly do. Presentations are a pain in the arse, especially when people are “visual”, and not “audio”, in how they communicate.
Few people are both…...and you never know whom is what until the discussion period afterwards.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 03 13 at 12:26 AM • permalinkYes, PW, both the Saudi religious police and the All Volunteer Environmental Secret Police™ have a thing about clothes, don’t they? “Wear ‘em or die, infidel!!!”
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 03 13 at 12:29 AM • permalink
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Is it bad to be anticipating the X-rated version?
Wait, its Al Gore…
Ewww.