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]]> 0 84ec84cf3cdcd17162dfcb2e99495d5f Laura North wrote a new blog post Video presentation skills workshops - an overview in the group DIAL http://dial.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2013/02/03/video-presentation-skills-workshops-an-overview/ Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:03:40 +0000 Thumbnail

Our objective for the DIAL online presentation skills community was to work out ways of developing video presentation skills with students.

Working with Chitra Buckley, the course director of MA Fashion […]

]]> 965e05d4386e288cd758736a9e9caa11 Laura North wrote a new blog post Video presentation skills workshops - lessons learned in the group DIAL http://dial.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2013/02/11/video-presentation-skills-workshops-lessons-learned/ Mon, 11 Feb 2013 01:25:16 +0000 The lessons we learned:

This group were generally fairly comfortable already with speaking and videoing themselves. This could be because they were MA students studying entrepreneurship.
They all found using […]

]]> 1a14becea78c6d9b17c7d50d9d83d465 Laura North wrote a new blog post Workshop 3 - Peer feedback on the before and after videos in the group DIAL http://dial.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2012/06/03/workshop-3-peer-feedback-on-the-before-and-after-videos/ Sun, 03 Feb 2013 20:37:49 +0000 ThumbnailFor the last workshop of the video presentation skills training, following on from the second workshop, the students returned to watch the videos that they had produced – before and after the workshops – and […]

]]> 6b9dd4d129f4983136be7b83b7a699c3 Laura North wrote a new blog post Workshop 2, part 2 - exercises to practice video presentations in the group DIAL http://dial.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2012/05/26/workshop-2-part-2-exercises-to-practice-video-presentations/ Sun, 03 Feb 2013 20:33:28 +0000 ThumbnailAfter the elevator pitch training from SEE outlined in the blog post Workshop 2, part 1 – training on how to do a video elevator pitch, we did some exercises to put these skills into practice.

Participants […]

]]> 84adc6b5d0c18e806dd471ec8784957a Laura North wrote a new blog post Workshop 1, part 2 - watching the video pitches on a big screen in the group DIAL http://dial.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2012/04/30/workshop-1-part-2-watching-the-video-pitches-on-a-big-screen/ Sun, 03 Feb 2013 20:32:48 +0000 ThumbnailThis blog post follows on from Workshop 1, part 1 – filming one minute video pitches without training, where the students practiced recording a one minute pitch using Flip cameras.

We then had a group […]

]]> 56c362b4b877f42b77028e287dc0a144 Laura North wrote a new blog post Workshop 2, part 1 - training on how to do a video elevator pitch in the group DIAL http://dial.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2012/05/26/workshop-2-part-1-training-on-how-to-do-a-video-elevator-pitch/ Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:31:10 +0000 ThumbnailThe second workshop in the video presentation skills training follows on from the first workshop, Workshop 1, part 1 – filming one minute video pitches without training.

For this element of the video […]

]]> 1efb2b48824e5cde26ea6578b89b76d6 Laura North wrote a new blog post Workshop 1, part 1 - filming one minute video pitches without training in the group DIAL http://dial.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2012/04/30/workshop-1-filming-one-minute-video-pitches/ Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:29:17 +0000 ThumbnailThe first stage of the workshop with Fashion Entrepreneurship MA students from LCF took place on Wednesday 25 April at High Holborn, in the lecture theatre.

There were 6 participants, all female. My first […]

]]> 56087028baf066b1fc296d6485e15624 Laura North wrote a new blog post Preparation for the video presentation skills workshops in the group DIAL http://dial.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2012/04/30/preparation-for-the-video-presentation-skills-workshops/ Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:28:49 +0000 We did some preparation for the video presentation skills workshops with a group of Fashion Entrepreneurship MA students from LCF, run in conjunction with Chitra Buckley, course leader, DIAL and SEE.

In order […]

]]> f91f2d11660da93fc2bc5b444de64305 Laura North wrote a new blog post Video resource for presentation skills in development in the group DIAL http://dial.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2012/10/26/video-resource-for-presentation-skills-in-development/ Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:00:19 +0000 We’re making a video as one of the resources for the video presentation skills project.

This is the provisional structure:

Open with a clip of LCF. Intro of people involved in project: Chitra, me, Pei-Chin, […]

]]> 52fed72a04c205545f3e9b6e84008441 Laura North commented on the post, Make the Grade - Fit to Submit, on the groupblog myblog http://dial.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2012/01/15/presentations-video/#comment-177 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:25:40 +0000 UAL’s new Online Student Engagement Policy for Course Teams recommends ‘having a discussion of assessment criteria and near-completed work as “fit to submit”’ (2020, p. 4). This refers to a practice intro […]

]]> 19232c9368186436409d2d6ab5fbdb55 Laura North wrote a new blog post Lights, camera, action: presentations skills and video in the group DIAL http://dial.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2012/01/15/presentations-video/ Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:58:58 +0000 Thumbnail  I’m very pleased to be helping set up an online community for presentation skills as part of the DIAL project. I am an ideal guinea pig for any experimentation. I have been terrified of public speaking for as long as I can remember and run very rapidly away from any video camera pointed in my direction. I set […]

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