Notes from a Corporate Life: Thoughts on information and libraries in corporations, music and other things.

I'm getting ready for a presentation for class on Saturday, outlining my own development through at least eight theories of development (Piaget, Jung, etc.) What I'm trying to do, to push my own envelope, so to speak, is to tell the stories entirely through images. Well, perhaps not entirely; I'm planning on having the name of the theorist on the slide, but other than that, all images.

Parts of this are easy, but parts of it are hard. What I'm enjoying about the process is that it's making me really think about what I'm going to say, and how I'm going to weave my stories.

It's a great learning experience for me. Let me share one of the stories here (though I won't link in the theory piece for you):

When I was six, my parents decided (through some process that is still unknown to their children) to move the family to Alaska. I was terrified because I truly believed we'd be living in an igloo (remember, I was only six). I wasn't sure if I was really correct in that assumption, so I tellingly went to the school library to get a book on Alaska.

Unfortunately the librarian came back with a book with drawing of a kid on a dogsled on the cover. In my six-year-old mind, I thought, "Oh...my...god...it's all true."

There's more to that story, but I wanted to give you the outline so you had it in mind.

Now, based on that, which presentation slide is more effective? Which is more likely to stick with you as I'm relating this story? Which is going to resonate more, on different levels?

It's a fun exercise. As a side note, it's a wonder I became a librarian after this experience.