Programming day one

First thing to do: Move everything you want to keep from the machine you have been using to your webspace using Filezilla. We are going to change some seats around.

Second: We will begin programming today. Here's my presentation on Basic programming. You will get a hard copy, too.

Week 9: PowerPoint

Current assignment: a judiciously composed PowerPoint based on your ten-item 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 on PowerPoint style follow. Check them out — they're fun!

This project is due via e-mail by 8 am, Monday, March 24. Submit it by sending me a zip file of your PowerPoint attached to an e-mail.

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
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"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!

Excel day two

Today's two Excel projects are described on handouts. Here is the file for the first.