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Powerpoint??
As you may guess, having been going along blithely thinking "yay - I'm going to San Francisco - this is going to be FUN," I'm now starting to suffer from pre-conference jitters.
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tree_and_leaf was doing before her recent conference paper, I was suddenly struck (and this, of course, literally at 3:00 am) by the question - is everyone going to be using Powerpoint? It's not a huge problem, if so, because I'll have my trusty LT with me and can throw something together quite easily. Only question is should I arrange some kind of adapter for my trusty Mac laptop, given that hookups to data-projectors tend, in my experience to be the old printer connections (can't remember the technical term) and not USB... or should I worry, given that this IS, after all, a huge conference in a huge hotel and no doubt they can accommodate me, or should I tip off the moderator of my panel, who did ask if I needed any special equipment... ?????
Yikes.
The last academic conference I went to was in 2001, the Virginia Woolf, in Bangor, and there wasn't a ppt in sight. But things have changed a lot since then.
Remembering what
tree_and_leaf was doing before her recent conference paper, I was suddenly struck (and this, of course, literally at 3:00 am) by the question - is everyone going to be using Powerpoint? It's not a huge problem, if so, because I'll have my trusty LT with me and can throw something together quite easily. Only question is should I arrange some kind of adapter for my trusty Mac laptop, given that hookups to data-projectors tend, in my experience to be the old printer connections (can't remember the technical term) and not USB... or should I worry, given that this IS, after all, a huge conference in a huge hotel and no doubt they can accommodate me, or should I tip off the moderator of my panel, who did ask if I needed any special equipment... ?????Yikes.
The last academic conference I went to was in 2001, the Virginia Woolf, in Bangor, and there wasn't a ppt in sight. But things have changed a lot since then.
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I use mine frequently (I always take my mac to class for presentations).
On the subject of powerpoint presentations. I use keynote (the mac version). It's a bit nicer. I've also been known to use webpages in preference to powerpoint.
If you do use powerpoint, use a picture to stimulate what you want to say, rather than dot points. I hate dot points.
I should find that video on how not to use powerpoint. It's brilliant. I'll also be uploading a video based presentation for our class this week (which we lose to foos friday) and I'll link you to that if you're interested.
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I have a really good article somewhere which is about how Powerpoint is Evil. Seeing as I am, after all, a tech education specialist, I ought to be able to do Powerpoint (or Mac equivalent) that isn't Evil :)