Powerpoint??

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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.

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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[noveldevice.livejournal.com]

I took handouts. Mine last year said "We have to rent the digital projectors so don't ask unless you honestly need them!" I mean, someone in your panel might have one already, but if you haven't asked they probably haven't made provision for you.

However, you would need the little cable that came with your mac notebook that has a standard video connection on one end and a mac-friendly video connection on the other. It will hook to the regular video cord of the projector.

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Thank you :)