Comments on: Walls Optional: The 2008 DE Conference at Camosun College http://clintlalonde.net/2008/04/04/walls-optional-the-2008-de-conference-at-camosun-college/ Trying to balance the ed with the tech Thu, 17 May 2012 17:34:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Clint http://clintlalonde.net/2008/04/04/walls-optional-the-2008-de-conference-at-camosun-college/comment-page-1/#comment-120 Clint Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:40:34 +0000 http://clintlalonde.net/2008/04/04/walls-optional-the-2008-de-conference-at-camosun-college/#comment-120 Well, geek fun anyway :) Well, geek fun anyway :)

]]> By: Clint http://clintlalonde.net/2008/04/04/walls-optional-the-2008-de-conference-at-camosun-college/comment-page-1/#comment-119 Clint Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:39:55 +0000 http://clintlalonde.net/2008/04/04/walls-optional-the-2008-de-conference-at-camosun-college/#comment-119 Thanks for the link, Michael. I've never created an alternate stylesheet for projectors. This looks like fun. Thanks for the link, Michael. I’ve never created an alternate stylesheet for projectors. This looks like fun.

]]> By: michael thorne http://clintlalonde.net/2008/04/04/walls-optional-the-2008-de-conference-at-camosun-college/comment-page-1/#comment-118 michael thorne Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:49:00 +0000 http://clintlalonde.net/2008/04/04/walls-optional-the-2008-de-conference-at-camosun-college/#comment-118 S5: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ S5: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/

]]> By: michael thorne http://clintlalonde.net/2008/04/04/walls-optional-the-2008-de-conference-at-camosun-college/comment-page-1/#comment-117 michael thorne Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:48:01 +0000 http://clintlalonde.net/2008/04/04/walls-optional-the-2008-de-conference-at-camosun-college/#comment-117 There's also Eric Meyer's S5. S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System S5 is a slide show format based entirely on XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. With one file, you can run a complete slide show and have a printer-friendly version as well. The markup used for the slides is very simple, highly semantic, and completely accessible. Anyone with even a smidgen of familiarity with HTML or XHTML can look at the markup and figure out how to adapt it to their particular needs. Anyone familiar with CSS can create their own slide show theme. It's totally simple, and it's totally standards-driven. There’s also Eric Meyer’s S5.

S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System

S5 is a slide show format based entirely on XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. With one file, you can run a complete slide show and have a printer-friendly version as well.

The markup used for the slides is very simple, highly semantic, and completely accessible. Anyone with even a smidgen of familiarity with HTML or XHTML can look at the markup and figure out how to adapt it to their particular needs. Anyone familiar with CSS can create their own slide show theme. It’s totally simple, and it’s totally standards-driven.

]]> By: Clint http://clintlalonde.net/2008/04/04/walls-optional-the-2008-de-conference-at-camosun-college/comment-page-1/#comment-114 Clint Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:14:51 +0000 http://clintlalonde.net/2008/04/04/walls-optional-the-2008-de-conference-at-camosun-college/#comment-114 And I second the beer grabbing :) And I second the beer grabbing :)

]]> By: Clint http://clintlalonde.net/2008/04/04/walls-optional-the-2008-de-conference-at-camosun-college/comment-page-1/#comment-113 Clint Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:12:14 +0000 http://clintlalonde.net/2008/04/04/walls-optional-the-2008-de-conference-at-camosun-college/#comment-113 That Greasemonkey hack is great! It reminded me of a presentation I did using Word (don't ask), adding & editing it on the fly. I had an audience member come up to me after & asked how I was able to edit my Powerpoint on the fly like that. Funny. I'm thinking of focusing the presentation more on alternatives to putting Powerpoint presentations online as opposed to not using PP in the class, which is a whole presentation unto itself - the effective use of PP for what it was intended to do. So I am going to focus first on why they should redo their content for the correct medium. This is going to be my main thrust. Barring that, if they absolutely must have their content in some form of classroom presentation format, what can they do to make that content more accessible when they post it online. What are some alternatives to simply posting the presentation on their website or in their LMS course? That Greasemonkey hack is great! It reminded me of a presentation I did using Word (don’t ask), adding & editing it on the fly. I had an audience member come up to me after & asked how I was able to edit my Powerpoint on the fly like that. Funny.

I’m thinking of focusing the presentation more on alternatives to putting Powerpoint presentations online as opposed to not using PP in the class, which is a whole presentation unto itself – the effective use of PP for what it was intended to do.

So I am going to focus first on why they should redo their content for the correct medium. This is going to be my main thrust.

Barring that, if they absolutely must have their content in some form of classroom presentation format, what can they do to make that content more accessible when they post it online. What are some alternatives to simply posting the presentation on their website or in their LMS course?

]]> By: Scott Leslie http://clintlalonde.net/2008/04/04/walls-optional-the-2008-de-conference-at-camosun-college/comment-page-1/#comment-112 Scott Leslie Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:42:44 +0000 http://clintlalonde.net/2008/04/04/walls-optional-the-2008-de-conference-at-camosun-college/#comment-112 Hey Clint, looking forward to this, it should be fun. If Brian stays over, which I hope he will, maybe we can grab a beer or something. There are just so many alternatives to Powerpoint it is hard to know where to start. In some ways, you can look at cogdog's "50 ways to tell a story" presentation as being all about alternatives to powerpoint. One of my favourites is the Greasemonkey wikipedia presentation script (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/6372 but may need *slight* alteration with later version of wikipedia). Basically, it turns the headers of size 1 on any mediawiki page into individual slides and gives you "forward/back" navigation links at the top of the page. The beauty being that you have a wiki page (so can invite collaboration) that auto-magically turns into a presentation. Another really simple trick that I have seen Alan and Brian do effectively a number of times is simple to start a presentation with Firefox (or other tabbed browser) open with many tabs already opened, and simply change tabs to change "slides". Obviously works best when it is web-based content you are talking about, but it is often a really elegant simple solution. Cheers, Scott Hey Clint, looking forward to this, it should be fun. If Brian stays over, which I hope he will, maybe we can grab a beer or something.

There are just so many alternatives to Powerpoint it is hard to know where to start. In some ways, you can look at cogdog’s “50 ways to tell a story” presentation as being all about alternatives to powerpoint.

One of my favourites is the Greasemonkey wikipedia presentation script (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/6372 but may need *slight* alteration with later version of wikipedia). Basically, it turns the headers of size 1 on any mediawiki page into individual slides and gives you “forward/back” navigation links at the top of the page. The beauty being that you have a wiki page (so can invite collaboration) that auto-magically turns into a presentation.

Another really simple trick that I have seen Alan and Brian do effectively a number of times is simple to start a presentation with Firefox (or other tabbed browser) open with many tabs already opened, and simply change tabs to change “slides”. Obviously works best when it is web-based content you are talking about, but it is often a really elegant simple solution.

Cheers, Scott

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