Power and Power Point

I love digital slide presentations.  But I also love reading.  Note taking.  Re-reading. Writing.  Editing.  Re-writing.  Reading some more. You get the idea.  I'm the kind of guy who ends up in the clergy or academy.  I chose the academy.

For the past several years, the faculty of the COMM department has been thinking about what we do:  What DO we do?  What SHOULD we do? What do we have in COMMON.  How do we COMMUNE? What is COMMUNICATION?

Of course, many answers are possible.  We have been focusing on one: Story-telling. Humans are story-tellers.  We love telling-stories.  There's nothing abstract about it:  When we sing the blues; we tell a story.  When we talk about our day; we tell a story.

Most people are underwhelmed when they find that stories have an identifiable structure!  I understand.  But the structure is there (and for those who hate singularity (myself included) there are enough variations and angles to spend a lifetime working on this).

Nancy Duarte is as excited as I am. So let's watch her:

This is indeed what we are teaching, in the proverbial thousand faces. 

Please don't make a simple mistake:  This has nothing to do with us (the educators): It what we, you included, strive for in all acts of communication; it's the structure of successful communication.

And, for all who don't like structure--there is indeed a post, a post-structuralist place, for us to go and to continue thinking, growing, the untapped "country."
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