Interesting presentation on how to present presentations.
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Mobile Presentations
I have liked Slideshare as a place to put my presentations and store them online and show them online.
One problem was that they used Flash which of course did not work on mobile devices such as the iPod touch or the iPhone.
Today Slideshare announced a mobile version of their website.
We’re quite excited to announce the new SlideShare Mobile website today. Visit http://m.slideshare.com on your mobile phone and you can view any presentation, search through presentations, login to save favorites and even download to your mobile phone!
Impress that client you bump into somewhere by running a quick pitch off your phone! Or review the latest conference presentations you missed while travelling!
As a result it is now easier to put presentations on mobile devices.
Gadgetfest
On Friday the 23rd January I gave a few online presentations (conferences) for the MoLeNET programme.
One was one which I had given the previous year on gadgets, entitled Gadgetfest. During the actual presentation I did talk about newer gadgets and new devices.
So what is out there? What devices are available? How are they been used? What can they do?
This presentation from the online conference explores the different devices available and their capabilities. Building on the experiences of year one of MoLeNET this will be an opportunity to learn how and what mobile devices can do to enhance, enrich and support your learners.
Image is Nothing
On Friday the 27th February I gave a few online presentations (conferences) for the MoLeNET programme.
One was on images and photography in relation to mobile learning.
Presentation on images, creating images, editing images and using images on mobile devices. The use of images for teaching and learning with an emphasis on cameraphones.
Where am I?
On Friday the 27th February I gave a few online presentations (conferences) for the MoLeNET programme.
One was on GPS and location based learning.
Presentation on on GPS and location based learning using mobile devices, it covered some of the GPS devices out there and how location based learning can be used.
Sharing my presentation
Today I have been at a JISC workshop on repurposing resources at which I gave a ten minute presentation on the institutional perspective on repurposing resources.
This gave me an opportunity to share my presentation with others.
Now I know I could just upload my PowerPoint presentation, but that means people need to download and open it. Problems arise as I used Apple’s Keynote presentation software and not everyone has that. Yes I can export to PowerPoint, but that is not always perfect, more so if you use some of the more advanced features of Keynote.
So I decided to use a feature of Keynote which is to send to Youtube.
This works quite well, though some institutions ban YouTube so less useful there then.
I also used Slideshare and uploaded my presentation there as well, though I had to export as PowerPoint first.
On both presentations there is (virtually) no audio, which to be honest the presentation does need. I think I prefer the YouTube version as it captures the transitions from Keynote which Slideshare doesn’t.
Another option would be to use Google’s Presentation.
Presentation, not Presently
Following my post about Presently, the official Google Blog has announced that they are releasing presentation software and are going to call it Presentation.
In April we announced that we were working to bring presentations to Google Docs. (Astute readers may recall learning about this even earlier, which caused a bit of excitement around here.) And today we’re unveiling the new Google Docs presentations feature and invite you to try it at documents.google.com. Maybe more than any other type of document, presentations are created to be shared. But assembling slide decks by emailing them around is as frustrating as it is time-consuming. The new presentations feature of Google Docs helps you to easily organize, share, present, and collaborate on presentations, using only a web browser.
This will provide a real solution to delivering online presentations and also enable learners to access PowerPoint presentations via the web (say delivered from a VLE). Not every learner will have Microsoft Office installed and though PowerPoint Viewer is an option for some, it is not an option for all.
Regardless of whether you think PowerPoint is not an useful e-learning tool (death by PowerPoint anyone) or is, it is used on a regular basis by a lot of practitioners across the world.
I think despite the dominance of Microsoft Office there is room for a web based presentation application and I am hoping that Presentation will fit the bill.
Are you Presently?
Google Docs and Spreadsheets are proving very popular in the e-learning community, though one obvious application is “missing”, and that is presentation software (a PowerPoint replacement).
Mashable is reporting that Google is about to launch their web based presentation software, Presently.
Google’s PowerPoint killer looks to be on the horizon. Called Presently, the presentation-creation tool will offer a web-based solution for users.
This will provide a real solution to delivering online presentations and also enable learners to access PowerPoint presentations via the web (say delivered from a VLE). Not every learner will have Microsoft Office installed and though PowerPoint Viewer is an option for some, it is not an option for all.
Regardless of whether you think PowerPoint is not an useful e-learning tool (death by PowerPoint anyone) or is, it is used on a regular basis by a lot of practitioners across the world.
I think despite the dominance of Microsoft Office there is room for a web based presentation application and I am hoping that Presently will fit the bill.