Heck, you could print things at super resolution and hand out magnifying glasses. What a great giveaway that would be! National Geographic last month had a map of the US as its insert. Folded it measures 6 inches by 7. Unfolded, it is 20 times as large approximately 24 by 36 , and it is 2-sided. One side is your typical politcal map, with states and highways and rivers and such. The other side is entitled "History of the Land" and includes annotations in complete sentences, no less!
I don't want to think of the projection equipment that would be necessary to show this information on the computer screen. Time, of course, is often-times best encoded graphically through the use of time; as such, data movies can be quite compelling. Getting these to survive the transformation into static paper-space is difficult. The real challenge, as least in my work, is to get the movies to do things in a high enough resolution to make the move from high-resolution paper to low-resolution computer worthwhile.
Does the trade-off of movieness for resolution buy us increased understanding? If so, we ought to use the method or methods that improve our understanding of the process that is generating the data. It shows how the incidence of prostate carcinoma has evolved over the past 30 years. The changing numbers inset into the graph are not relevant here, other than the year.
The enormous increase in prostate cancer cases in the early 's was probably due to the introduction of the PSA blood test. On screen resolution, data density, and animation Rafe brings up some interesting points. Here's my take on a few things bullets! Please note: I'm not trying to be a Gore cheerleader some of the comments in the above links bring excellent critique of his conclusions - but I am very interested in how new technology can support speakers and their messages.
This seems to be an example of this done well. I prefer Keynote for creating presentations because it's elegant and intuitive to use. PP looks especially clunky next to it. But I agree that Keynote falls into the same kinds of hamfisted communication methods. It just looks a whole lot better while doing it, so maybe there's an added danger in the elegance. I also like Keynote because it allows you to export slides to jpgs and gives the option of saving each new bit of info to a new slide.
I put the jpgs on my iPod 30GB, color screen and use the photo capabilities for my presentation. Saves lugging a laptop to a conference. All my gear--cables, ipod, infrared dock and remote control--fit in one pocket and weigh less than six oz. After years of boredom with speakers using PP and reading their boring slides to me, I did something kind of strange this past fall. I made a Keynote presentation with no text. I made handouts with my stats in legible and understandable charts that people could refer to during the talk and take home later.
I only had images on my slides, using Keynote's superior shadowing and animation options to make them look really nice. Then I talked, using the images to support and illustrate my message. No charts, no words, no bullets. Four months later I'm still getting email from people who were in the audience saying it was the most memorable presentation they'd seen all year.
Funny thing is, I'd given the same talk with a screen full of text and hadn't gotten any reaction by email at all. I'm going minimal from now on. Response to Apple's Keynote vs Microsoft PowerPoint On the other hand, if you do want to pitch, Keynote may be the best tool available.
I have seen it used by Lawrence Lessig and Aaron Swartz separately for pitching. Their technique somebody called "Slides as chorus", and it works like this: The presenter speaks fluently and never, ever refers to the slides or reads from them. Each slide contains either a picture or a very short string of text, perhaps just one word. As he is speaking, he advances the slides in sync with what he is saying; there can be several slides per sentence. Support your strike of inspiration and artistic outburst by online art classes from professional creatives.
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Your email address will not be published. We got tons of fascinating articles, videos and freebies for you every week! Home Tutorials. June 18, Share on Facebook Share on Twitter. MS PowerPoint. Get from Microsoft. PowerPoint: Pros. What does it mean for you? Well, that you can open and edit yours almost anywhere with no compatibility problems. The app was evolving for years: new features were added, and the users comfortably adapted to them. The UX design is fresh and intuitive, so even an uncompromising Keynote user will find it quite simple to make a presentation.
Or add notes from OneNote. Or anything else. This means that if you are actively working in the Office ecosystem, switching to Keynote may raise you some problems. PowerPoint: Cons. It has far more features than you need. There are lots of beautiful design templates. But there also lots of funky animations, sound and text effects, which can make you cross over to the dark side where titles spin merrily and glowing letters drop down one by one.
She has a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and is an avid gardener and sports fan. By Lauren Miller. The Basics PowerPoint, Keynote and Pages are all included as part of office suites, as well as standalone programs. Purpose PowerPoint and Keynote are programs specifically designed for creating presentations.
Presentation Features Both PowerPoint and Keynote enable you to create autorun or manual slide shows. Word Processing Features Since Pages is a dedicated word processing program, its features for creating long, text-based documents far outweigh those in PowerPoint and Keynote.
Conversion and Importing PowerPoint, Keynote and Pages all have features that enable you to import documents from other programs; However, these import and conversion features vary for each program.
Related Articles. Other Microsoft elements from Word and Excel integrate seamlessly so you can add, edit, and animate documents, spreadsheets, graphs, charts , and tables with ease. This makes data visualisation and animation much easier, particularly using built-in Excel integration. Furthermore, the intelligent feature such as PowerPoint Designer and Presenter Coach makes it easier to design and rehearse your presentation with intelligent suggestions, tips, and pointers.
The global PowerPoint community is well established and continues growing. As more and more designers creating PowerPoint templates, the PowerPoint community is making it easy for newcomers to get the insights and resources necessary for a streamlined design process. While we would rarely encourage people to use bulletpoints, PowerPoint does make it incredibly easy to incorporate them, which can make your design look generic and negatively impact on audience attention.
The simplicity of drag and drop also encourages users to saturate slides with multimedia files. However, as we always say, keep it simple. You have to buy the software, even if you have the program installed on your PC, Office subscription is a different story and has to be paid for if you want to access intelligent online sharing and integration features — such as PowerPoint Designer.
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