Presentations

I am catching up on all of the items I flagged for reading over the past week, and I ran across a tremendously well developed paper on Seminar.net about The Rhetoric of PowerPoint. This is a paper by Jens. E. Kjeldsen an associate professor at the University of Bergen, Norway. Kjeldsen rightly points …..

This is the final post in a series about how to conquer the technological hurdles, and teach a digital game in your class. If you haven’t already you might want to start at the first post. If you have read the first two, then you should be ready for this last post, on …..

So this is the second post in my series on how to teach a digital game for your higher ed class (if you are just joining us you might want to tune into the first episode here.

One of my favorite blogs Lifehacker covered slideshare the other day. Now while slideshare is in Beta, this could turn into a tremendous web application for academics. With Slideshare you can load a slide show (think powerpoint, open office, or just a collection of images) easily onto the web and make them available …..

Lifehacker had a post yesterday about Zamzar, a free file conversion website. This almost seems to good to be true if you ask me. Basically it allows you to convert any file from pretty much any format to any format (100MB limit). This could be super useful for class to make sure …..

Yet another trick for making easy presentations. Again involving a flash drive. At times when I teach or present all I want to display is a serious of quotes, just text, or text with simple pictures. What I do in this case, is type out all the quotes in a large font, …..

How to prepare a digital presentation and not worry about it working.
Making a digital presentation can be a big pain, especially since it seems that given the radically different technical capabilities you are apt to encounter, you can’t guarantee it will work. One of the biggest concerns I see is that people bring their …..

The del.icio.us hack:
Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking web site. (For those who are familiar skip this paragraph and go to the next) What del.icio.us allows you to do is bookmark web sites, but make these bookmarked web sites viewable over the internet (this is all free). This means you can take them …..