Hi Marie-Therese
I do a lot of public speaking and have therefore looked quite closely at this. Prezi is nice for wow-factor (although increasingly as people see it, less so). What has always put me off - and I suspect many others - is that you can't embed Prezi on Slideshare or other slide hosting sites.
For many people like me, the effect of being able to embed, re-embed, Tweet, discuss and otherwise disseminate ideas on slides is absolutely vital to the longer lifecycle of presentations. Giving a presentation nowadays is only the tip of a tiny iceberg. Taking 2009 as an example - I would make a wild guess that I presented to maybe 1,500 people in total face to face during the course of the year. During the same year, my slides on Slideshare were viewed over 19,000 times. Face to face presentations aren't obviously entirely comparable to online ones, but this gives a sense of the kind of scale that easily-embeddable web content gives to us.
My personal approach - and it is personal, probably not for everyone - is to build my slides in Powerpoint and then import them into Keynote for last minute transitions, font tweaks and so on. Reason for this: I'm much quicker in Powerpoint and much prefer the visual subtleties / presenter view in Keynote. I have dabbled, by the way, in building my own html slideshow, and with html5 (see this slideshow for example: http://slides.html5rocks.com/#slide1) this becomes more feasible, but not yet easy enough to warrant serious looking at, IMO. Once I've delivered my talk, I upload to my Slideshare space (http://www.slideshare.net/dmje/presentations), tweet about them, embed on my blog, etc etc. I also make sure that the slides are marked as CC, and that any images I use are CC and credited accordingly. By doing this the conversation about the topic is encouraged to continue beyond the walls of the presentation venue.
Finally...however much we all nod sagely when people talk about "death by Powerpoint" (http://www.slideshare.net/thecroaker/death-by-powerpoint), there still seem to be far too many bulleted, wordy, wooden presentations given where the audience is likely to be asleep by the third slide... One thing that Slideshare makes us focus on - rightly - is the visual appeal of what we present and how this reflects the interest of the content.
Sorry, will stop now
Cheers
Mike
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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Marie-Therese Gramstadt
Sent: 24 June 2010 17:34
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Subject: Stable slideshow application? (February 2010)
Hello,
I was only just beginning a research project when there was a MCG post
on 'Stable slideshow application?' back in February. It would be great
if members on this list felt this was a topic they would like to discuss
further. My starter question in that case would be: who uses Prezi? and
do they prefer it to PowerPoint? or are there any other presentation
technologies or methods that are preferrable to PowerPoint e.g. analogue
slides?
If members would prefer to reply off list then I would be happy to
collate information and send back to the list.
I would also be very grateful for 7 minutes of your valuable time in
order to gather data that will benefit the visual arts sector, including
academic staff, support staff, librarians, information managers, slide
librarians, visual resource curators, museums and gallery staff, and IT
staff.
The specific research area is image presentation software and how
resources can be better adapted to existing pedagogic practice. I would
like to hear from all those who use, support others use of, or would
like to use, presentation technology in their current role, particularly
to present or teach about images or the visual arts.
Any data received will be treated as anonymous and held confidentially.
Further details and a copy of the final report are available on request
(see the end of the survey for details).
https://survey.ucreative.ac.uk/presentations
I would be very grateful if you could circulate this email as appropriate.
All good wishes and many thanks in advance,
Marie-Therese
Marie-Therese Gramstadt (Mrs)
Projects Officer
Visual Arts Data Service (VADS)
University for the Creative Arts
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http://www.vads.ac.uk/
Research project blog: http://teachingwithimages.wordpress.com/
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