UDLS IV

[gfish]

I gave my fourth UDLS presentation last night. Since A) It was the last one of the year, B) It was also the 75th UDLS, and C) I like to show off, we did something kind of different. Instead of choosing a topic and putting together a presentation, I made an empty Google Docs presentation and gave everyone who wanted it editing perms. (Yes, I kind of stole the idea from Ze Frank's Fabuloso Fridays.) I cleaned it up a bit, but for the most part the presentation I gave was whatever people added.

[Huh, LJ won't let me embed the presentation, so I'll just link to it: Epic collaborative UDLS experiment.]

It was well received, and people seemed to really enjoy the idea, but I was a bit disappointed with how random the slides were. We were talking about it later and came up with some better ground rules. It sounds like some other people want to try it again, maybe always ending the term with something like this. So, yay, not a complete disaster.

My next one will be in February, an utterly non-experimental talk on Mayan glyphs.

Comments

[spinnerin-ftw.livejournal.com]

Some friends have been doing a random presentation game called powerpoint karaoke. Everyone makes a slide deck of a set length, then you give a presentation based on someone else's without reading it first. You get a little more of a theme from slide to slide that way (maybe. Depending on drunkeness. )

[hsifyppah.livejournal.com]

Hee! That sounds like a lot of fun.

[gfish.livejournal.com]

I realized just before starting that I should have approached this more like that, not looking at the results until the actual presentation. Oh well.

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

I wonder if this would make a good theatre improv game.