Room to Think

First of all, what I love about Joe's talk is that he truly is a storyteller. He even uses his own theme music! I took a storytelling class a few quarters ago, and I loved it, but it was hard work! Just getting my brain to remember the course of the story and all the words and motions that went with each story was a challenge.  Joe here had to remember his script, the order of the buttons he used, their placement on the iPad screen, and push them all at the right time so his story made sense. I can tell you it takes a lot of concentration to tell a story in an exciting way. I almost feel like I could see it on Joe Sabia's face a few times, despite how careful he was to seem excited about his narrative. It's the same way for blogs. Blogging is just another outlet for people to tell their stories--with new perspectives and through a new medium. And it still takes a lot of work to keep the stories interesting What I've found most interesting in the last coupl...

Good morning! Today's TEDtalk Tuesday is by that hipster man up there, Joe Sabia.  He's known for things like videos like " Tupac in Kazakhastan " and " A History of Lyrics that Aren't Lyrics ". He's a technological storyteller...which means that he tells a story about the evolution of stories in under 4 minutes . And, he uses his iPad. So I'll keep my summary short so you can actually watch the video. He begins with the book. "The book was the king of storytelling. It was venerable. It was ubiquitous. But it was a little bit boring...In its 400 years of existence, storytellers never evolved the book as a storytelling device."  (about 10 secs in) Then he shows how a man named Lothar Meggendorfer   started the revolution that led to the evolution of how we tell a story. "But the way that humans tell a story has always evolved with pure, consistent, novelty." (3:15) And that's what I'm going to ...