How he uses technology to enrich and enlighten his content and deliver it. What are the key elements of his technique? What can you take away from his talk and apply to your presentation this week?
This week we were assigned to watch Hans Rosling presentation: The Good News Of The Decade, with the best stats you've ever seen presented on Ted Talk. The content that Hans was educating us and showing his audience visual improvements of how child property has been reduced through the years in different countries. After watching the full video I think the his main point he was trying to get across was proving there is improvement and statistic documentation showing that we are making progress within the millennium development goals which goals our nation has made to make progress in countries throughout the world in: "ending poverty, education, gender, child and maternal health, control infections, protect our environment, and get the good global links between nations in every aspect from aid to trade."
He took advantage of today's media source by using a PowerPoint type software that he added animated graphs (GapMinder World software) that he used to show visual representation of data that would make the audience understand it more clearly. The way he delivered the data and presented using the animated graph which allowed the audience to see the movement of improvement through the years made it that much more rich and more enjoyable to input the information he was sharing. I believe one of the key elements he used was movement and color to help make the graph more understandable to read. I really like how each line was a different color but in the top right corner he represented the world of countries and each country was a different color to match the line that was represented on the graph. I thought that was a great way to present a color key. Adding movement in the graph I thought it made it much more realistic because seeing the improvement is more believable then just seeing a bunch of standstill lines because sometimes you never know if they are representing up or down.
Those two key elements that I thought was used throughout his presentation to help his audience understand the data was movement and color and I would like to apply that to my presentation. Color and movement helps liven the "dull original PowerPoint" to more exciting and more interactive presentation and hopefully help engage my audience. Plus that software called GapMinder that he used to create the data graphs and I would like to try to create my own graph because I like how I could input the dates in the background and as the dates are increasing you see the increase or decrease. Over not a bad Ted Talk and he did a great job in presenting his research and data that shows the improvements in child poverty.
Samantha-
ReplyDeleteI love how you described the good elements of Rosling’s presentation as being “rich”. They really were rich. It’s kind of like what makes a good dessert; it’s the richness we love, you know? I would also agree that the color he used in his graphs definitely helped the audience to understand the harder points he was trying to get though. He didn’t use animation and colors to entertainment the audience. He used it to help us understand in a visually alluring way. Thanks for writing a great blog post! I enjoyed this Ted Talk as well! :)
-Leah