Prezi. Technology and Education - Box of Tricks. Posted by José Picardo on May 23, 2009 These are five of the best web based applications that allow you to create and share presentations online. Using these web based tools, rather than the traditional desktop solutions can have many advantages, for example: you don’t need to install any software, as everything is done online through your web browser; your presentations remain accessible from any computer, ensuring both availability and exposure, as well as removing the need to carry them around on a memory stick; your presentations can be embedded into websites, blogs and wikis; and they can be used by students and teachers to collaborate remotely.
Below you can find five almost identical presentations on Using Online Presentation Tools using Empressr, Google Docs, Prezi, SlideRocket and Zoho Show. 1.- Empressr Empressr is a free web based application that allows you to create, manage and share rich media presentations online. 2.- Google Docs 3.- Prezi 4.- SlideRocket 5.- Zoho Show. A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods. Extreme Presentation Method. Vyew.com - FREE Anytime Collaboration and Live Conferencing™ SlideShare. Eric Meyer Presentation Template. For a newcomer, creating a presentation in S5 may seem a bit daunting at first. Don't panic! Writing your own presentation is very, very easy.
In order to help smooth the way, here's a short primer on what to change and what to leave alone in an S5 presentation file. First steps First, download the S5 blank template archive. Once you've downloaded the archive and uncompressed it, you should find two things: a file named s5-blank.html and a folder (directory) called ui. Boot to the head The first part of the presentation file, at least the part after the DOCTYPE and the <html> tag, is the head element, shown in Figure 1. Figure 1. For the most part, you shouldn't have to ever touch this part of the file. Figure 2. Other than that, you don't need to make any changes to this part of the file. Slide headers and footers If you move downward in the presentation file, you'll find a div with an id of layout. Figure 3. A few words on the XHTML structures seen here.
The title slide Figure 4. Gates, Jobs, & the Zen aesthetic. As a follow up to yesterday's post on Bill Gates' presentation style, I thought it would be useful to examine briefly the two contrasting visual approaches employed by Gates and Jobs in their presentations while keeping key aesthetic concepts found in Zen in mind. I believe we can use many of the concepts in Zen and Zen aesthetics to help us compare their presentation visuals as well as help us improve our own visuals. My point in comparing Jobs and Gates is not to poke fun but to learn. SimplicityA key tenet of the Zen aesthetic is kanso or simplicity. In the kanso concept beauty, grace, and visual elegance are achieved by elimination and omission.
"Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means NaturalnessThe aesthetic concept of naturalness or shizen "prohibits the use of elaborate designs and over refinement" according to Kawana. The suggestive mode of expression is a key Zen aesthetic. Above. Above. Dr. Above. Above. The "Microsoft Method" of presentation?