I recently gave my masters graduation project presentation on designing for social impact and using photography as a research tool to help in the creation of social awareness solutions. I focused on the issue of child education in rural Bihar (India). The project was well received in the presentation and the overall consensus was good.
The final outcome of the graduation project is the website Pick Me, Click Me, Educate Me! This project serves to provide a platform to people from different backgrounds (photographers, writers, educationists, social workers, donors etc) to collaborate. It allows to utilize the work done by one group (like photographers who go to these locations and shoot), for discussion with the others who are not able to. It therefore allows aims for promoting , discussing, writing about, and finally donating (again not the prime focus) for, the issue of child education in rural Bihar.
Here is the promo video for the project
And this is the presentation that I made in the class.
The talk at Ignite Bloomington went well. I liked the participation of the audience in smiling together with me. Here is the presentation that I had used. Please note that most of my presentations are void of too much texts, and I speak more. I truly believe that I have the audience attention better that way. One audience member later summed up my talk in his blog post,
“Kshitiz shared the lessons he learned from research in rural India. The slides were pictures of people from rural India and were the most interesting slides of the show, as they were the least ‘Powerpointy’.”
Here is a that ‘non-powerpointy’ presentation, though I confess I did use Power Point to make it! :)
