Webinar Presenter Are You? Much To Learn From Doc Willie Ong, Internist & Cardiologist!

Whatever subject matter you are discussing in a seminar, online or offline, there’s a bad and a good way to do a presentation, PowerPoint or not. Yes, you can learn from Doc Willie!

So today, webinars are in vogue. Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems to me that this current trend in educational digital communication began when SEARCA started a series of digital seminars in its fields of interests – agriculture and education.

I have been an active practitioner of science communication in the last 45 years, before the personal computer. with texts, images, sounds and actions; and with the coming of the PC and Internet, with addition of stylized and even magical presentations. Modern media as a whole is the most exciting thing that ever happened before our eyes and between our ears!

So why are webinars boring?!
Because presenters think that anyway,
they are talking to a captive audience –
no need to look from the audience’s point of view.

They are mostly textual, or mostly verbal. You hear the words and then right after that you forget them. I don’t blame those presenters – they did not study to be presenters, only to be experts in their fields. They need help!

Now, look at the Doc Willie image above again – “Kape At Tsaa: Sino Pwede, Sino Bawal.” (Coffee & Tea: Who May, Who May Not). While it is a small frame, since he is using a monitor and not a projector, there are lots of texts and visuals. Of course, Doc Willie goes through all of those materials in the course of his presentation. He is good.

You are attracted and you learn a lot.
Doc Willie did not study communication,
but he is certainly an outstanding communicator!

To help communicators, now this teacher, UP '65, I think that I have discovered  2 things that a short course should be able to teach: creative writing with digital presentations.

We must graduate from mechanicalpresentations by PowerPoint, say. Academically, we have no excuse not being able to produce something educational and yet exciting:

A challenging, thought-provoking presentation.

Those people with advanced degrees and/or PhDs who conduct webinars or room seminars and who are contented with their old methods of presentation are short-changing not only their audiences but also themselves!

Why cannot a scientist be creative? Doc Willie is creative – surprised? I have watched Doc Willie’s biopic, the original story of which he wrote: “I Will.” That is an unusual title for a human story, but Doc Willie is a highly unusual thinker himself. Son of a rich man who became poor, he continued to attend medical school… ah, I don’t want to tell the story. I have watched the movie twice already, and really, it’s well-written, well-acted and well-intentioned. It is a head-wringing, heart-warming experience.

Doc Willie Ong. In his Facebook posts, the good doctor willingly continues to give wellness advice to readers. And, as you can see, Doc Willie knows how to actively align art advancing animate advice. How about you?@517