Full disclosure: I don’t know everything there is to know about teaching. Shoot, I probably know far less than most of the people taking the time to read this post. So take my “rules for teaching” suggestions below with a large, crumbly grain of salt. With that out of the
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Home > Speaking > Presentation Ninja Because of the nature of my job, I give a lot of presentations and, as a result, I get asked this a lot: what makes for a good a presentation? Unfortunately, that’s much more of a loaded question than even I would typically like
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Guest Submission Infographic design by Jesse Cervantes Visit Jesse’s personal website If you live pretty much anywhere in the Western United States (and now in Virginia and Maryland), there’s no question you’ve tickled your tastebuds with Cafe Rio’s famous Pork Salad–a little taste of heaven and some of best Mexican cuisine to
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I may have fallen in love with a new way to learn (or teach, however you look at it). It’s kind of crazy and it threw me out of my comfort zone, but it changed the way I think about teaching. It included four cameras, a non-governmental organization (NGO), and
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With so many ways to visualize data, do you ever wonder which chart you should be using to showcase your information? If you’ve had trouble with this, you’re not alone. Sometimes it’s difficult to know if you should be using a pie chart, a line graph, a map, or something
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Well, I guess it’s official: we English-speakers have a pretty lame name for the symbol that looks like this: @. In most of our conversations, you’ll hear it referred to simply as “the ‘at’ symbol.” Could there be any more boring way of naming such a beautiful little mark that we
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One of the coolest parts of my job is that I get to take my strategic communication graduate students on an international trip every year. This year’s destination? Cambodia. And one of my many highlights from the trip? Eating an enormous cockroach. When I plan these trips, I have five
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WordPress works right out of the box when you’re just starting out. However, one of the biggest attractions to WordPress is the added functionality that plugins add. But this creates a conundrum; there is an almost endless number of plugins that do the same thing. Choosing the right image posting
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If it’s time (or long overdue) to evaluate your website, you may be wondering what really matters in the design and content of your website. If you’ve thought, “hey, a web design checklist would be super nice,” well, you’re in luck! Feast your eyes below. The truth is, web design
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The University of Chicago-Illinois recently published this cool little infographic, citing the different types of college plagiarism, reasons why many students plagiarize, and some general facts about what types of plagiarism are most common. If you want to read more about plagiarism, check out the infographic I created a couple
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