The issue of Death by PowerPoint keeps popping up. It popped up again in The Register: “It's Official PowerPoint Bad for Brains.” How have students managed to stay awake during endless PowerPoint slides class after class? I confess I am not a real fan of PowerPoint Presentations- I tend to nod off and start daydreaming, but there is a time and reason for everything, even Slide Presentations.
Of course PowerPoint is just a tool and as with any other tool the user is in charge, not the machine. Death by PowerPoint can be abolished if presenters pay attention to a few simple ideas from others who probably doze off too. Get some tips for your presentations from the Presentation Zen Blog and pay attention to 'The 10/20/30 Rule' from Guy Kawasaki’s How to Change the World Blog.
Next check out Slideshare- You’re guaranteed to find slide presentations already created about almost anything.
Slideshare is a collaborative site that allows users to share presentation slides or to discover what others are presenting. They make sharing easy. An added benefit is that some slideshows offer transcripts for your learning.
On Slideshare you can learn from what others are presenting right from your computer, anytime, anyplace.
Check it out, you might just find that presentation from the conference you really wanted to attend but couldn’t.
4 comments:
This sideshow stuff looks very interesting. How can I us this technology or similar technology to put photographs of my departments activities on our website?
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What is the difference between this and PowerPoint? You are still clicking and looking at slides. Nothing new here.
Slideshare is a collaborative site that allows you to view other's presentations. You are right, its just basically PowerPoint slides created by others. You might find a presentation on Slideshare that others have created (instead of having to create your own and reinvent the wheel) if you have are intent on using PowerPoint to present and many people are.
If you are not technology challenged try using Pachyderm2.0 for presentations (http://pachyderm.org)
it makes PowerPoint look like a kindergarten coloring book.
Thumbstacks (http://www.thumbstacks.com/) is another program worth checking out.
Both Thumbstacks and Slideshare are web-based, which means that it can be viewed by anyone, anytime...it's a real 24/7 learning tool.
Publishing PowerPoint to the web can be difficult. Both Thumbstacks and Slideshare are easy to publish to a website or blog.
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