And I have finally reached reached Thing 13! It feels like it has taken quite a while to get here - I don't seem to be able to do a thing for half an hour a week, it takes me much longer to try out and then write up each new bit of internet loveliness.
Looking back to the start of 23 Things I said that I wanted to see how Web 2.0 tools that I've already used could be applied to libraries - and to discover some new tricks. I have certainly done the latter - I love the Creative Commons section of Flickr, something I've never really come across before. Delicious also has the potential to become really useful as I start at library school - helping me keep a track of any interesting articles I read.
Hearing about people's different ideas on how tools could be used in libraries has been a really interesting part of the programme so far: as well as coming up with some ideas of my own!
I am hoping to discover some more new tools before the end of 23 things as so far I have been familiar with quite a few of the things (aside from Delicious and Slideshare).
Showing posts with label Slideshare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Slideshare. Show all posts
Thursday, 19 August 2010
Friday, 23 July 2010
It's all in the presentation
Powerpoint (or Keynote for Mac users) is really nifty, it's even helped win an Oscar whilst raising awareness of climate change with Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. I would argue for the usefulness of being able to access slides after presentations, perhaps after a user education session in a library, as I would do during my degree. Most lecturers used Powerpoint and then posted their presentations on our VLE. These ranged from the very useful (bibliographies and quotes) to the useless if you weren't actually in the lecture theatre variety - one lecturer used to illustrate points about Victorian literature with Lolcats, generally with no captions, you just had to be there. And unless you wanted to write an essay on Lolcats, you really couldn't skip those lectures. Although actually I would love to write an essay on Lolcats, but not if it meant failing my degree. Even without Lolcats, Slides that included lots of information or references were incredibly helpful for revision: so yay for slides!
As a free way to share presentations Slideshare feels easy to use and there is a lot of library related stuff out there. It depends on how the slides are designed again though whether it is worth looking at presentations without sound - this epic presentation on Social Networks from Paul Adams of Google is a brilliant example of how slides alone can be understood if the information is presented in the right way.
But as Helen points out it might be better if people posted presentations with sound when the slides don't explain everything, but that is more complicated - as a simple way of getting a resource out there Slideshare does exactly what it says on the URL.
And to make up for the mammoth presentation above, here are some easy on the eye library pics.
As a free way to share presentations Slideshare feels easy to use and there is a lot of library related stuff out there. It depends on how the slides are designed again though whether it is worth looking at presentations without sound - this epic presentation on Social Networks from Paul Adams of Google is a brilliant example of how slides alone can be understood if the information is presented in the right way.
View more documents from Paul Adams.
And to make up for the mammoth presentation above, here are some easy on the eye library pics.
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