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As usual, TED was great this year. Sharing a stage with heroes of the modern age turns out to be quite daunting, and crafting a meaningful and powerful three minute presentation worthy of their attention turns out to be very difficult indeed. TED may eventually put up the video of my presentation, but for those that don’t care to wait to see me fumble my lines, here is the comic book version.
And, should you care to print it out, here is a giant PDF.
This version of the presentation includes the ideas and images that had to be cut from the onstage version in order to fit the time limit (Geetha Reddy would call this one “darlings included”).
The idea of converting a presentation to a comic book has been floating around in my head for a couple of years. I feel like it’s working and seems to capture more of the feeling of the presentation than a slide-deck with speaker’s notes. If you have ideas for improvements or other graphic-novel conventions that I could incorporate, I’d like to hear them. -gever
P.S. Also available directly on the TED blog.
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The comic style presentation works very well! Thanks for sharing!
Comment by Andreas 02.10.09 @ 12:07 amha ha funny comic tinkering school seems exactly the opposite of my regular school!!!(:
Comment by piper tulley 02.10.09 @ 6:39 pmGever, amazing! What you are doing is fantastic! Immerse, try things yourself and learn. Its a great way to encourage kids to learn. Fantastic!
Comment by Srini 02.12.09 @ 2:07 amGreat story (in form and substance both). Really inspirational. Big props, kudos and congratulations for inspiring curiosity and empowering the spirit of ‘make’.
I’d love to see a lower resolution (smaller download size) comic as well (300MB suprised me, despite your warning of ‘giant PDF’).
In a time when children are molly-coddled more than ever before, we owe it to our predecessors to impart at least the appreciation of invention, exploration and a mort of curiosity.
Well done, sir.
Comment by Bob Andrews 02.12.09 @ 3:15 amGreat job with the comic; great job and a wonderful idea. Kudos!
I’d love to hear what software you used to create this book. Thanks!
Comment by Tim 02.12.09 @ 7:50 pmNo input, just thanks for being you and doing the fun things with kids. I’m Robyn’s Aunt
Comment by Betty McSween 02.16.09 @ 9:22 amI love your stuff and have included one of your TED keynotes in a parenting blog I have. I will be using this as well. Great Stuff! Now I have to figure out how to send my own kids to one of your camps but then again, I let them do it at home so I suppose that is not necessary.
Comment by Keith Rispin 03.20.09 @ 10:07 amWay to educate, Gever! I have dozens of short videos depicting just this type of project based teaching/learning evident in your comic book. Here’s one: http://guerillaeducators.typepad.com/ge/2007/04/going_solar_pro.html
If you have the time and inclination, scroll around my blog.
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