technical speech #4
Brian Christiansen
http://www.cookingforengineers.com/article/120/Common-Materials-of-Cookware.
It is in my series that I call "the technical aspects for cooking." The
article basically discusses and compares the thermal diffusivity and
reactivity of various materials that cookware can be made of.
Well anyways, for my overheads (I just don't have access to a powerpoint
projector, but do have access to an overhead), I plan to adapt the charts in
there to "almost wordless" slides.
What I plan to is put the name of the Material and a picture of cookware
made of whatever material. A picture of a copper or whatever pot should be
easy enough to find.
Then to indicate "thermal diffusivity," I would put on that slide one flame
for low, two for medium, and three for high thermal diffusivity.
I still am not sure exactly how I would pictorally represent the reactivity
though. Does anyone have any ideas how I might do this.
If I actually get around to designing this in the computer, and not just in
my head, I will make some sort of file of what the old charts look like and
what my redesigned "wordless" slides look like, post them somewhere, and try
to solicit some further feedback that way, but I don't even have them
completely designed in my head yet.
I also own pans made of some of the composite materials mentioned in the
article, and was wondering if I should actually bring them in as examples of
the ways these materials are used together, or would bringing in a bunch of
pots and pans make the presentation just too clunky and unwieldy. Or should
I simply take pictures of these pots and make slides out of them.
Brian Christiansen
Joy
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I'm sure you'll hear from people with other views, but I would rather see
real pots than slides of them.
Joy
John Goalby
<brian_christi...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I have selcted the following for technical speech #4:http://www.cookingforengineers.com/article/120/Common-Materials-of-Co....
Brian
Very interesting.
One approach might be to use the abbreviations from the
periodic table to represent materials. You could combine
this with common usage of materials (planes for aluminum,
copper wires, etc.). Also combine with the color of each
of the materials.
When you introduce the pots and pans then reference the
symbol mentioned initially. It will remind you of the material
as well as reinforce the concept for your audience. The
audience doesn't need to remember much as you will
be there to guide them.
Therefore, I recommend you go wordless apart from
the elements symbol. You are there to add the words.
The slides are there to augment your message. Make
it a personal challenge and see how it goes.
For reactivity I would go with something like domino
toppling to represent it. Maybe try to think of something
outside of the obvious for each item. Thermal diffusity
could be represented by people/animals standing shivvering
in the cold or sweating in the heat.
I personally think your talk will be more memorable with
physical pots and pans. If there is a way to tie your
message in with the pots and pans it would be even
more effective. Maybe demonstrate pot toppling ;-)
Just some thoughts off the top of my head.
Please let us know how it goes.
John.
Nigel Reed
> I'm sure you'll hear from people with other views, but I would rather see
> real pots than slides of them.
I agree.
I love to look at pots and pans ;)
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John Goalby
> toppling to represent it. Maybe try to think of something
> outside of the obvious for each item. Thermal diffusity
> could be represented by people/animals standing shivvering
> in the cold or sweating in the heat.
I thought about this some more and decided to write a post
on my website about this. For anyone interested it is here:
http://www.omniscium.com/Presenting/PowerPoint-for-Cooking.html
John.
Timber Talkers VP PR : http://www.timbertalkers.com/