Powerbullet Presenter - Create animated Flash-Presentations | Home Software - Mouseposé Capture the Attention Mouseposé 3 is an essential tool for everyone doing presentations or demos. If turned on, it dims the screen and puts a spotlight on the area around the mouse pointer, easily guiding the audience‘s attention to an area of interest. Of course, there are other uses as well. If you have a large screen, it helps you quickly locate the mouse pointer when you return to your work after an interruption. Visually impaired people tell us that it helps them as well. Visualizing Mouse Clicks One of the most important aspects of presenting is for an audience to be able to follow what the presenter is doing. Hitting a user definable hot key turns on the Mouseposé effect, dimming the screen and putting the mouse pointer into a "virtual laserpointer" that makes it easy to locate. Highlight that Window New in Mouseposé 3: When the Mouse stays over a window for more than a configurable time, the focus automatically expands to highlight the window. Let it Speak for Itself
Blog » Blog Archive » Slide Tips: Dodging Bullet Points in Powerpoint Presentations - Dave Yewman or get it in your email. Dave Yewman is the author of On Getting to The Point. He usually describes himself as a presentation coach. His 10 year old was asked on the playground what his dad does, he paused for a minute and said, “He teaches people how not to say ‘um.’” To find out more, visit Elevator Speech. Everyday, by some estimates, people deliver roughly 30 million PowerPoint presentations. And 95 percent of them suck. It’s a shame, really, because PowerPoint can be a great visual aid for a presentation. Below are five tips on how you can use PowerPoint effectively. It’s not pretty. Tip 1 – WORDS FIRST Most people put their presentations together backwards. Tip 2 – TELL STORIES (and practice doing so out loud) People forget that human beings are pre-programmed to remember stories; we have been since “Goodnight Moon” in our childhoods. Tip 3 – HIDE THE JUNK Often people will say, “Well I need to put all those bullet points/details because audiences want my slides.” Tip 5 – B CONTROLLING
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Sacred Cow Dung: All Things Web 2.0 - "THE LIST" « QUOTE OF THE WEEK: "Bad Code is Good Business" | Sacred Cow Dung Home | High-Performance Social Networking - Part II: The Natural Life-Cycle of a Personal Network » March 10, 2006 All Things Web 2.0 - "THE LIST" The most current listings are now available as a continuously updated Open Directory at “All Things Web 2.0 – The Directory” — cgm (08/16/06) Last night I was talking with Bob Stumpel who runs the Web 2.0 Group on OpenBC. Everything Web 2.0 by Bob Stumpel, et al 360yahoo - Blogging. [ The italicized entries are ones which I added or “fixed” — cgm ] Related Links Posted by cmayaud at 02:06 PM | Permalink| Comments (145) Del.icio.us Tagging | Digg This | Posted to COMtent | DIRECTORIES | LISTS | SOFTWARE IT | Web 2.0 Hi, I just wanted to respond to the category that Vyew.com is posted under. In fact, Vyew is a free, web-based collaboration site that provides a feature-rich meeting room with real-time, whiteboard functionality. Thanks, Fred Posted by: Fred Han at March 16, 2006 06:46 PM
10 Powerpoint Tips for Preparing a Professional Presentation Presentations, whether made with PowerPoint or another tool, are a great way to support a talk, visualize complicated circumstances or focus attention on the subject. 10 Tips for Making Better PowerPoint Presentations with Office 2016 10 Tips for Making Better PowerPoint Presentations with Office 2016 Microsoft PowerPoint continues to set new standards. New features in PowerPoint 2016 manifest its top spot as the best option for smart and creative presentations. Read More Meanwhile, a foul presentation can achieve the opposite. Here’s is a small guide that will help you create presentations with a professional look and concise content, avoiding the most common mistakes. Design The first thing that gives a professional touch to any presentation is the design. 1. Don’t copy & paste slides from different sources. To that end, use a basic template or make your own. Pick an easy to read font face. Carefully select font sizes for headers and text. Decorate scarcely but well. 2. Match colors.
Assessing Student Learning - five practical guides ‘If lower-order learning is an unintended educational consequence of on-line assessment, then any perceived or real gains made in efficiency, staff workload reduction and/or cost savings are at a questionable price.’ Why consider on-line assessment? A good deal of investigation and development is underway in Australian universities into the possibilities for effective and efficient on-line and computer-based assessment. The current commercial ‘virtual learning environments’, which integrate various curriculum elements at subject level into a single software portal, usually offer various built-in options for student assessment. As well, many on-line assessment initiatives are being locally developed to suit specific curriculum needs. There are many reasons why on-line assessment is being adopted by Australian universities. The move to on-line and computer based assessment is a natural outcome of the increasing use of information and communication technologies to enhance learning. NB.
You're not on a fucking plane (and if you are, it doesn't matter)! The idea of offline web applications is getting an undue amount of attention. Which is bizarre when you look at how availability of connectivity is ever increasing. EVDO cards, city-wide wifis, iPhones, Blackberry’s. There are so many ways to get online these days that the excitement for offline is truly puzzling. Until you consider the one place that is still largely an island of missing connectivity: The plane! But planes are not a very common hang-out spot for most people. I used to somewhat belong to latter group. Ironically, SAS killed the internet access on their transatlantic flights this January because nobody was using it. (Yes, yes, I’m sure there exists other niches and pockets of dark holes where if only we had access to the GlobalMegaCorpSocialY application, the world would be a better place. UPDATE: The Mile High Club: 37signals, fuck yeahs, and productivity stock-art
Presenting Lessons I've Learned Up until a few years ago I'd never done any type of public speaking. I'm outspoken among friends, but generally shy around strangers. However, some opportunities presented themselves and I decided to take the leap into the world of presenting. I thought it might be helpful to document some lessons I've learned. Get Help - I took a class at Speakeasy (NYC). Almost everything I learned I got from Neal Ford, Jim Webber, and Dan North.