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Author Archives: damien
The Art of Questioning
July 18, 2007 – 8:35 am
These are the lecture notes from my talk earlier this morning on “The Art of Questioning.”
Criteria for Selecting a Good Area of Questioning
“The spark effect”: CONTROVERSY
“The fresh effect”: UNIQUENESS
“The CNN effect”: RELEVANCE
“The enriching effect”: IMPORTANCE
“The voice effect”: AMPLIFICATION
Production Tips
July 18, 2007 – 8:29 am
YouTube has a nice set of tips on producing well-designed videos. Here’s a smattering of highlights:
11 Steps for Adding Spice
Speaking Tips
Editing 101
You can also explore YouTube’s built in Remixer, where you can edit your videos.
If anyone knows of other helpful resources, please leave a note in comments.
Resource Clearinghouse
July 17, 2007 – 2:39 pm
I’ll try to put up pages that can serve as central collection sites for different topics. You can access these pages here, or at the links in the sidebar.
Globalization
Science and Environment
Foreign Policy
Civil Liberties
YouTube Questions: Exemplars
July 16, 2007 – 3:26 pm
When thinking about the development of a good question to ask the candidates in the CNN/YouTube debate, it helps to have some good models in addition to understanding some of the pitfalls that are to be avoided. We want to develop questions that pop out at the reviewers in the hopes that they will […]
YouTube Questions: Pitfalls
July 16, 2007 – 9:20 am
When thinking about what makes a good question, we can often learn the most from other models. What follows is a number of sample YouTube questions that have been posted for the CNN/YouTube debates; followed by some commentary on the quality of the question. This isn’t meant to be overly critical of the […]