A quick review of a new Slideshare feature I just tried out called Zipcasting. This lets you live broadcast your slides from within Slideshare with audio, video and chat, either publicly or with an unlimited number of invited participants via a custom URL. This looks like a lightweight, but useful, approach to remote presentation where you don’t need a fully-featured web conferencing system.
BigBlueButton is a free, open source web conferencing system that allows remote presentation with slides, audio, video, chat and desktop-sharing. The developers vision for this is to make starting a web conference as easy as clicking a single metaphorical big blue button. While that was certainly my experience with their public demonstration, I wanted to go a bit further an try self-hosting an install, so this post will touch on the hosting and management aspects, as well as the user-experience.
Interesting TED talk from Clay Shirky on how media has changed to social media and the impact of that on citizens, institutions and government.
Ever wanted to have your speakers notes on screen, but your nice image-rich, bullet-free slides on the projector? Here’s a quick HowTo on setting up PowerPoint to use multiple displays for different views using the built in Presenter View feature.
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 [...]
Google
Twitter
Delicious
Flickr
Slideshare
JISC Netskills
LinkedIn