The document discusses the importance of storytelling and avoiding stale stories in higher education. It advocates using multimedia and multiple channels to tell stories in fresh, engaging ways. The author provides examples of publications and media that have successfully updated traditional storytelling for modern platforms. He urges knowing audiences and finding the right approach and format for each story. The goal is to continually change and adapt storytelling methods to keep content feeling new.
25. THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON STORIES
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STORYTELLING MULTIMEDIA MESSAGING CHANGE
26. To our surprise, we saw that all these complex
patterns within the listeners actually came from
the speaker brain. So production and
comprehension rely on very similar processes…
Uri Hasson
Because after all, the people we are coupled to
define who we are. And our desire to be coupled
to another brain is something very basic that
starts at a very early age.
35. Deep Purple were watching the whole
fire from their hotel window, and they
said, ‘Oh my God, look what happened.’”
Claude Nobs
“One time I had Frank Zappa. And at the
end of the concert someone threw a flare
gun at the ceiling and everything started
to be on fire…