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Want to become an amazing presenter? Listen to your audience. It's hard to get honest feedback - start your PheedLoop to make the process simple! Via Baiba Svenca
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This looks interesting and might be a good tool to practice/get feedback.
Baiba Svenca's curator insight,
February 28, 2014 11:54 AM
PheedLoop is an amazing tool for getting feedback from your audience in real time. Upload your presentation to PheedLoop and get a unique link that the viewers can see and use to send you their feedback.
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There are ways to stop people from rambling, multitasking and zoning out and to make the call productive.
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danah boyd's new book, It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, explores the nuanced reasons and ways teens use social networks--and why...
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I heard this lady interviewed on the radio a few days ago. Almost every paragraph had a sentence that started with "like" in it. To my mind, she came off as a total ditz.
Notice that even here in a tightly edited and controlled magazine-format conversation, her dialog is peppered with "likes."
Some of her comments struck me as strange or as perhaps not well researched. Had I not heard her speak or not read this Q/A where she seems attached to "so" and "like," I might have given her the benefit of the doubt. But given all this, I am not sure how scholarly her work actually is.
You guys should make sure you do not fall into this trap.
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Landscape surveys and base map imaging using a DJI Phantom II Vision quadracopter in Big Sycamore Canyon State Park, CA. Ron, Gabriel, and Dylan. I do not ow...
PIRatE Lab's insight:
POSTED BY DYLAN ELLIS: Hey Gang,
I was with Ron Marotto, of the Ventura County Watershed Protection District, who is the Supervising Hydrographer of Watershed Resources and Technology Division, on 2/21/2014 in Sycamore Canyon testing a DJI Phantom II Quadracopter for base-map imaging of the new county rain gauge installed this past weekend. This is a revolutionary piece of equipment that has very wide policy implementation implications and cost saving incentives associated with it. This is Gabriel's (Ron's colleague in the video) personal quadcopter but the county is currently working on a proposal for a $15,000 DJI S800 that has 6 blades, a 50 pounds carrying capacity for field research and mapping. This bigger model can create entire DEM (digital elevation model) maps as well as spectral reluctant infrared maps just from visible light video camera flybys of watersheds and their waterways. Full longitudinal and cross-sectional data can be completed in an hour of fly time and computer data work. If you have ever surveyed a cross-section then you know this is a multi-day project. Policy implications are poised towards high cost savings associated with expedited mapping process. Ron said that a single airplane base-image run costs around $15,000, again for a single image. This means millions of dollars of savings in a single year alone for mapping and surveys of watersheds. When this technology is spread to different divisions and departments of the government then that figure could multiply into the billions. I hope you enjoy the theatricality.
-Dylan
PIRatE Lab's curator insight,
February 23, 2014 4:56 PM
This UAS is quickly becoming the backbone of the entry-level aerial drone mappers. Here, one of my students filmed a demo run out at one of our post-fire burn monitoring sites in the coastal Santa Monica Mountains adjacent to our campus last Friday.
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The world's first taggable video tool. Start adding tags to moving people and objects now. Via Baiba Svenca
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Could be a useful way to augment any of your technical videos you might be obtaining.
Baiba Svenca's curator insight,
February 4, 2014 3:40 PM
A cool free tool for adding interactive tags to your videos. Now you can load your video with additional information. Tags get attached to moving people and objects automatically, you just need to add your info. Many thanks for the suggestion to Alfredo Corell. 
Willemijn Schmitz's curator insight,
February 5, 2014 4:53 AM
...en dan wordt ik uitgelachen als ik het over tags voor de ELO heb...
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Want to make a splash with your presentations, but don’t want to splash out any money on a program? Forget PowerPoint, we’ve got some totally gratis... Via Baiba Svenca
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Some nice alternatives to PowerPoint, although not everyone is here. For example Strut is missing.
But this is worth a try in any event.
Solange Giardino's curator insight,
March 21, 2014 4:54 PM
Ótimas alternativas para variar nas apresentações. 
Alfredo Corell's curator insight,
March 23, 2014 3:22 PM
A new compilation of free software to prepare digital presentations. Of course... alternatives to Power-point or Keynote. Have a look, and if you're not into any of them, give them a try!!! 
Ingrid B's curator insight,
April 2, 2014 8:34 AM
Algunos programas gratuitos para hacer presentaciones, como nuevas y más completas alternativas al ppt.
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An editor for creating web based presentations. All you need is a web browser. Strut presentations work on desktops, laptops, mobile devices and tablets. Via Baiba Svenca
PIRatE Lab's insight:
This looks super cool. A much simplified version of PowerPoint and might be more intuitive for many of you. Give it a try and let me know if you like this.
alexislucas's curator insight,
February 22, 2014 12:57 PM
Voici un projet encore en beta permettant de créer gratuitement des présentations de type prezi like via la librairie open source impress.js ( plutôt pour geek seule) et donc voila de quoi ravir la communauté enseignante qui dispose d'une véritable alternative au classique diaporama parce que strut autorise de travailler en ligne ou hors ligne sans avoir besoin d'un compte chez un quelconque éditeur. à surveiller de près 1 limite : outil non collaboratif
alexislucas's curator insight,
February 22, 2014 12:59 PM
encore en beta mais top pour les diaporama web 2
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By Tom Batter, WIL Scientific Aid California has been experiencing persistent dry conditions since 2012. According to the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, ...
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We are all thinking what implications the drought will have on ourselves, however many may overlook the detrimental impacts of drought on wildlife. -Carl
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WASHINGTON — Fred Tutman was a lonely man when he picked up the telephone that day.He was the tough—talking protector of Maryland's P...
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Although this isn't anyone's research, this makes for a great future research project: Trying to figure out why there is an ethnic divide in the environmental movement and figuring out ways to gain more diversity among these groups. -Patricia Ligeralde
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The SATs weren't just relevant in high school. It turns out that plenty of employers still look at job candidates' old test scores—sometimes decades down the road.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Holy Crud!
The ONLY folks who would ever ask you about your SAT scores these days in the context of a job hire are blowhard "old boy" networks. You need only look at the types of jobs that are interested in this: investment banking and "sales." Two general careers where 1) I don't expect many of you to be hunting for and 2) ethics and morality is often of marginal concern and interest in one's fellow humans and planet are not exactly top of the list of priorities.
While you are all free to construct your resume how you would like, I strongly encourage you to think very hard before putting any such test scores on it and would urge caution about taking a job at any place that places an emphasis on instruments that primarily measure how much money you had/how many test prep classes your parents paid for.
I recall one of my undergrad professors saying that those tests (SATs, GREs, etc.) don't measure your potential so much as how much prep you had going into the test. They are phenomenally poor at predicting future academic or job success.
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Today we're launching a way to download and purchase our datasets.
PIRatE Lab's curator insight,
February 26, 2014 12:27 PM
Great datasets here, but the $2,000 for academic researchers is pretty steep. This will discourage exploratory work, but I understand these folks need to recoup their costs.
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What can I do to improve my body language with some simple, actionable tips? The latest research reveals the best tips to improve your body language easily:
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Well...I don't really want anyone trying to pull a "power pose" just for the sake of getting the upper hand. But body language is obviously important.
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PIRatE Lab's insight:
Hmmm....again, some good things here, but much of this seems directed at business pitch-type presentations. For example, this lists data-rich presentations as something you should avoid. You need to FOCUS and EMPHASIZE data rich presentations.
Marie-Ann Roberts's curator insight,
February 10, 2014 8:32 AM
Some clear and well-presented ideas here. 
Scott Langston's curator insight,
February 13, 2014 9:36 PM
Watch this before you start your next presentation!
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The planning stage of your presentation is crucial but too often presenters don’t know where to start and don’t follow a clear process. This planning checkli... Via Baiba Svenca
PIRatE Lab's insight:
This is a bit of a corporate-y oriented guide, but there are still some useful tips in there for you. Check it out. It may well help several of you. It certainly can't hurt to run through a few checklists before your next presentation in any event.
Beatriz Olivares's curator insight,
March 20, 2014 12:07 PM
Hace unos días en mi blog, hablaba de la necesidad de considerar ciertos aspectos para crear presentaciones y obviamente la planeación es fundamental. Les comparto la entrada de mi blog: http://bettyolivares.blogspot.mx/ 
Marisa Maiocchi's curator insight,
March 25, 2014 6:51 AM
Muy buen resumen de las cosas que hay que tener en cuenta a hora de hacer una presentación efectiva, para un auditorio sin ojos cerrados ni bostezos! 
Kamian's curator insight,
April 9, 2014 10:24 AM
Documento recomendado para hacer presentaciones decentes (Muy buenos tips).
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Here's a research-based weekday planner for what to do � and, perhaps more important, what not to do � at various hours of the day.
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As wildfires wind down, teams of scientists hit the field to assess the damage. In many cases, they have help from satellites.
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For anyone who needs imagery of the fire scar. I'm not sure how high the resolution is. -Erin Merrill
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I am not sure if our campus contract allows us to use these services, but it might. In any event, those of you who have purchased Endnote have access to these training videos.