Recently I have been reading a few blogs that I follow and there seems to have been a common thread in regards to visual thinking. Garr Reynolds of Presentation Zen fame has been exploring visual thinking. It is work having a look at his post on this topic for the 2 video examples he has used. Another blogger I follow Guy Kawasaki has explored this subject focusing on the recently released book " The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures" by Dan Roam.
These recent posts reminded me of a similar sort of thinking/presentation I had seen in the past. When I worked for the NT Education Department one of the activities I commissioned was the recording of conferences and activities that occurred in the NT that could potential be of interest to remote teachers, parents and students. I had managed and oversaw the introduction of some amazing distance educational technology that allowed for high end video to be broadcast to remote locations over satellite with return user interaction and participation. This may not sound that fantastic, but believe me the ability to co-ordinate, support and deliver this type of service in the NT environment was challenging and rewarding.
So the basic idea was to record activities and sessions that remote participants could not attend and either deliver these live or on replay. The clip below is one of these commissioned recordings and shows Edward De Bono talking about the lack of recent software development for our brains. His presentation was wonderful not only from a cerebral point of view but from the visual mapping/diagramming De Bono used in the session.
