Musings about librarianship: Zooming into presentations - Zoomit, Prezi & pptPlex

Description

In this blog post, I describe 3 different ways to zoom in and out of presentations to increase visibility, and to create a bit of action. The three tools are Zoomit , Prezi and pptPlex . I describe my experiences with them in detail and their pros and cons as presentation tools.

UPDATE : John in his comments below suggest that I should have included ahead , a even newer tool that in some respects is similar to Prezi , but which he claims is easier to use than Prezi . I took a quick look it does look interesting, but still in beta. Will review that in future blog post in comparison with Prezi.

Introduction

Recently I gave my first ever talk at a local library conference in Singapore - Libraries of tomorrow . The content of my talk wasn't anything particularly interesting (about " Subject Guides 2.0 " which many readers of this blog will recognize covers much of the same ground I blogged about in past posts and which I later realized wasn't particularly ground-breaking anyway), so I won't talk about it here, but instead I will talk about the presentation tool I used.

While the conference was ran efficiently and I was extremely impressed by the work of my fellow presenters and posters, I felt that the venue wasn't the best place for giving talks, as there was sunlight coming from behind the screen (we were at the top level of a building with clear transparent windows), and the glare made it difficult (at least for me, though bear in mind I have very poor eyesight!) to see the powerpoint presentations.

Hazman from NTU Library probably fared the best, as a lot of his slides were often simple one message points with huge fonts, but few ...

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