Thursday, October 18, 2007

Day umpteen + 1: a snootful of PowerPoint

Current assignment, due via e-mail by 5 pm, Friday, October 19: a judiciously composed PowerPoint based on your ten-itme web bibliography.

Judicious? You shouldn't even try to show everything. Pick some of the best stuff, and use PowerPoint tools to make good illustrations of your thoughts.

Many links follow.

Tufte's lament click

Derek Miller's collection click includes two exemplary photos

Death to PowerPoints? not really click

viral video showing a popular minimalist style
click

"Presentations are as much about slides as poetry is about handwriting," according to Doc Searls click

two strictly HTML alternatives to PowerPoint: S5 click and Slidy click — small file sizes, as portable as websurfing, accessible to us with our knowledge of CSS!

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