So after seeing some really interesting PowerPoint slides pop up over the blogosphere, I decided to try a new kind of presentation method. Instead of having a theme and slides with bullet points each slide conveys one thing and is associated with an appropriate picture.
It was a lot of fun to create, but it did take more time than I had planned. I used Flickr Storm (http://www.zoo-m.com/flickr-storm/) to find pictures. You kind of have to think of one word tag descriptions for what you want, otherwise you will spend even more time trying to find pictures! I then verifyed that they were all liscensed through Creative Commons for use. This way I could use them not only in my presentation, but repost them as well. I always gave photo credit on the image itself, as well as created a delicious tag (http://delicious.com/bethanyvsmith/pp_photo) for all the pictures I used. This way not only was it easier for me to remember where I got the pictures from, but also so that others could find them as well.
Then I posted the presentation on SlideShare for others to use and see. Slideshare takes your presentation and creates images of the slides that can be "flipped" within a webpage (much easier than the way we used to publish PP files to the internet). The only drawback is that since they are images, there are no transitions between objects - you would need to have them on separate pages rather than all on one. This was important when actually giving the presentation for certain slides. In the end I think it worked very well. I plan on tweeking this presentation for an upcoming MEGA meeting, but overall I'm pretty proud of it and will continue to use this method - until the next one comes along!
Photo Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/25533361@N00/280882501/
2 comments:
Thanks for the description. Sounds useful.
Thought you might be interested.
http://www.vimeo.com/2235438
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