Open College of Ireland

There is much advice around on how to craft excellent public presentations.  But to what extent can we afford this level of effort for classes that we give online, week after week.  A book, by Carmen Taran, called “Better Beginnings”  is dedicated to  just the beginnings of presentations.  Like a lot of self-help books with a good central idea, you often wonder if the key concepts could be presented more briefly as most of us do not have that much time to read it.  This book is described as a coffee ‘table book’ and so might not be too demanding in that regard.  But then again maybe reading a good review may tell you all you need to know.