Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Snow Day Visual Rhetoric Viewing

Two virtuoso displays of visual presentation rhetoric, the first is for satirical (and comedic) effect, the second is more serious but possibly even more entertaining, in a way.  (Watch three minutes of the Rosling video, and you'll be hooked for the other 17.) (If you're me.)

Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert on At&T


And 

Prof. Hans Rosling (Karolinska Institute in Sweden) on myths about the developing world


Fred

PS: And what does this have to do with teaching with laptops (since this is the laptop list)?  This: that clips like these have never been so easily available and reliably  display-able as they are with laptops.  You cue the clip up on your browser before class, or maybe even download it.  And then it plays in class the way you expect (something that is not always the case with our permanently installed teacher stations, on which you can't always test your presentations beforehand, and in which there are often unexpected quirks).

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