Snap it Up Workshop
Open to all – join us to learn how to make more effective presentations to multi-disciplinary audiences
Tuesday, at 13:30 in Albeniz (Floor -2) of Granada Congress Center
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough” –Albert Einstein, 1951
See the trailer at: http://youtu.be/iHjQ8RUV7Dc
Limnology and Oceanography are very much multi-disciplinary sciences, combining aspects of physics, chemistry, biology, and geology; and often including socio-economics. You can make a presentation at a meeting with very narrow scope, using specialized terminology, not explaining the relevance of your results, and presenting in a boring fashion. This is fine for a small number of specialty peers who will listen raptly for fear of being scooped by your work, or wishing to scoop you. However, if you want to reach and appeal to a broader interdisciplinary audience, you need another approach. Most of us probably know of individuals in our field who give fascinating talks from which a generalist can learn a lot. This workshop will address techniques and approaches that you can use to make presentations that are more exciting and appealing to those outside your specialty as well as more effective in explaining results of your research to those within your specialty. In doing so, you often develop a better understanding of your own work.
This workshop is open to all. It will be by Jonathan Sharp (Professor Emeritus at University of Delaware), Adrienne Sponberg (ASLO Director of Communication and Science), and Brian Palermo (Hollywood actor and instructor at the Groundlings Improv Theater in Los Angeles). For more information and updates about this workshop, periodically check this website.
Financial support for this workshop has been received from the Ocean Sciences Division of the US National Science Foundation.
A limited number of box lunches will be provided, especially for students. So, show up early and grab a box lunch or get your own lunch at one of the concession stands and join us.