Mind-Mapping for keeping time in presentations

Mind-mapping for time keeping in presentations
Duncan Baker
Lydbury English Centre
IATEFL BESIG
20 November2010

Problem and Solution
How to keep time.
How to slow down or speed up.
By how much?
Graphical Interface.
Controls content and time.

Overview
What is a mindmap?
Quick illustration?
Clock watching with a mindmap.
Practical exercise.
Questions and comments.
Conclusion.
Resources.

Whatis a mindmap?

Why use a Mindmap?
Use right brain (visual, intuitive) as well as left brain (logical, linear).
Make new connections between ideas.
Fast and easy to create.
Multi-purpose.
Easy to learn.
Effective.

How to use a mindmap
Work out the contents.
Prioritise the contents.
Format the mindmap.
Build to fit the clock.
Arrow where necessary.
Rehearse.
Deliver against the clock.

A verybriefsample

5 minutes of fame!
Introduce yourself.
Start with an attention grabber.
Make one main point in the presentation.
Try to break this into list of three.
End on a high point. This is what is remembered.
If you can add an element of suspense, so much the better.

Resources
How to make a mindmap with Powerpoint- http://bit.ly/d4wtLl
Mindmap- http://www.thinkbuzan.com/
Freemind2010 http://sourceforge.net/projects/freemind/files
Popplet - http://popplet.com/
VUE - http://vue.tufts.edu/index.cfm

Popplet

Thankyou
This presentation is online at:
http://www.lydbury.co.uk and follow the links
from downloads.
Email me on: duncan.baker@lydbury.co.uk

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