Clive at Activate
Clive Beale, our Director of Educational Development, was at the Guardian’s Activate conference two weeks ago. He was giving a talk in the alarming and upsetting PechaKucha format, where twenty slides are displayed for twenty seconds each, giving the speaker six minutes and forty seconds to talk in twenty-second bursts. Hats off, Clive: I swear there’s no format more terrifying. (If anyone ever asks me to do one of these, I’ll just show twenty landscape photographs. Scratch that: if anyone ever asks me to do one of these, I’ll say no.)
Clive makes an analogy. Click to view the whole talk.
Click here or on the picture to see Clive give a lightning-fast explanation of why learning to code is so important. Clive is at the Scratch conference in Barcelona this week; if you’re there, please go and say hi, and have a chat with him about learning with the Pi. He’s got an awful lot more material to share with you than will fit into seven minutes.
7 comments
clive
I love PechaKucha as a live format. Not such a fan of it in video form though — people pick up on things that you couldn’t backtrack on or elucidate or, you know, stuff you just made up or get completely and utterly wrong ;)
Raspberry Pi Staff liz — post author
For me, PechaKucha’s right up there with having my teeth drilled. (Loved the pants, by the way.)
The Raspberry Pi Guy
Excellent talk from Clive! He really is a master of the stage!
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mrpi64
If anyone asks you, just show them pictures of puddles. Or funnily shaped clouds. Or paint drying.
Mini-Man
No offence but didn’t understand a word as I am completely deaf. Can you guys help?
The Raspberry Pi Guy
If I get some time I might be able to provide a transcript?
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W. H. Heydt
Some years ago (20? 25? Maybe more…) an organization I was active in was invited to do a 5 minute presentation to the US National Parks Association. Three different groups of people announced plans to make a short video for it and all three fell through.
As a backup plan, I spent the better part of a year shooting over 1000 slides. I then edited them down and sequenced them as a storyboard. The slides were shown at about 4 second intervals and one of our members sang a song to go with.
By all reports, the presentation was quite successful.