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Fron Thursday Morning [Feb. 10th, 2012|03:29 am] [ Tags | morning writing, privilege ] I'm feeling a fair amount of grogginess this morning. I suppose i am burning the candle on both ends, staying up later than i might normally reading and trying to get up in time for me to settle my thoughts. My presentation apparently went quite well yesterday. I'd watched a TED talk on Monday (http://www.ted.com/talks/nancy_duarte_the_secret_structure_of_great_talks.html) that outlined a pattern for presentation of going back and forth between the state now and the future of the idea you are presenting. I did not spend enough prep time to be able to say i emulated that pattern, but it certainly encouraged me to have more energy in the narration. That TED talk, by the way, has an extremely problematic ending, where she shows the photo of MLK giving his "I Have a Dream" speech. Her rhetorical analysis of the speech is useful (presented in a different video here, also with the problematic ending), and i understand how she's trying to persuade the listener to use a similar structure to present ideas to change the world. Her slide to help the listener visualize their opportunity to be just such a powerful presenter is to take that iconic image and cover King's face with a "your face here" graphic. I'm not sure why i find the image quite so repulsive: if it was an iconic JFK photo would i feel the same? If it was an image of Ghandi? Or is it the insensitivity of the privileged to the erasure of the contributions of the oppressed, and the different resonance this image will have for different groups of people? This is also posted at http://elainegrey.dreamwidth.org/341779.html . Link Reply