Posts in the category: design

Presenting student videos in iTunes coverflow

November 18, 2008 design / HowTo — 22 comments
VOD coverflow

A key aim of our virtual open day project was to present video profiles of students in an engaging and informal way. I’d seen a couple of sites using an iTunes-esque coverflow to do this, but assumed this would need some pretty intense Flash coding. Turns out that it does, but luckily someone else has already done it and shared it with the world, so all you need is a text editor and about 5 minutes.

Death by Powerpoint: Bullets don’t kill people, presenters do

July 08, 2008 design / HowTo / presentation — No comments

Like most presenters, I use slideware and templates to help me produce my presentations. Or at least that’s what I thought. On reflection, what I’ve actually been doing is using slideware and templates to help me produce speakers notes. I really should have known better, but PowerPoint just makes it so easy to create bulleted [...]