Talks are not a neutral medium: they’re good for sharing some kinds of information (rhetoric, story) and bad for others (facts, details).
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Too often we treat talks as “the” medium for conferences without considering the medium’s properties. How can we incorporate other mediums?
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I suspect we may overemphasize talks (even when it’s the wrong medium) because it’s a way to actually make people “publish.” Works on me.
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I’ve misused talks as a medium many times—maybe more often than not? Many would be way more effective as articles or literate code.
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Been pondering this with for an upcoming preso at a museum conference—talk as envisioning, handouts to tutor?
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. the other side of this conversation is for organizers to have a deeper understanding of how and why to use each medium
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What about further notes, examples, and maybe even voice recordings or videos for after the talk?
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Yes: workshops, take-home projects, activities, discussion groups…
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I recently read the Objc.io Core Data book and I can't shake the idea of representing what I learned with cartoons.
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