Creating Passionate Users: A few more Presentation HowTos
Some of these great suggestions include:
- Take ridiculously long time to prepare.
- Change your slide rapidly.
- The slides are the words.
- ..and more.
Filed under: PowerPoint, TSPO
July 31, 2006 • 3:34 pm Comments Off
Presentation Hows from “Creating Passionate Users”
July 26, 2006 • 12:49 pm Comments Off
10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint
10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint: by Guy Kawasaki
I think this rule would get a lot of people pretty far down the road towards improving their presentations.
Filed under: PowerPoint, Tips
July 16, 2006 • 9:50 am Comments Off
Office 2.0 Database
July 12, 2006 • 1:16 pm Comments Off
Converting pdf documents
PDF Not necessarily the end of the line
Adobe article about getting content out of the pdf format into html or word format via Save As… from Acrobat Professional. (not reader)
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Why am I losing my Articulate recorded or imported audio?
Why am I losing my recorded or imported audio? – Articulate Presenter Knowledge Base
Per this support article Articulate does NOT like you to work with files from a network drive. Lesson of the day work and publish locally then copy the results to a network or web location.
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July 11, 2006 • 12:31 pm Comments Off
Articulate audio sounds like chipmunks
My audio doesn’t sound right. What should I do? – Articulate Presenter Knowledge Base
This article from Articulate support suggests that you change the Audio Quality under “Library and options…” then change it back and republish. Worked for me. 
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July 5, 2006 • 7:21 am Comments Off
Muddiest Point
This is a great idea. It only takes a minute or two and can give you some VERY valuable feedback on what part of your training may need improvement. Check it out. There is also some PowerPoint resources here that you might also find useful.
Using PowerPoint to facilitate classroom assessment
Muddiest Point
Like the two minute paper, the muddiest point technique is best used at the end of a topic–before moving to new material–or at the end of a class session. The exercise asks students to write down one thing about the day’s material that they simply don’t understand. By collecting these, instructors are able to gauge how successfully they taught the material as well as what they may have to revisit before moving on to new territory.
This classroom assessment technique is easy to use and yields powerful results, making it a favorite of instructors in large and small classes. It can be completed in as little as one or two minutes, and it lends itself to every discipline.
To administer the assessment, create a PowerPoint slide at the end of your presentation that asks, “What is the muddiest point in today’s material?” Ask students to respond on paper or note cards. Some instructors ask students for their responses verbally before the end of class, spending the remaining time in the period to answer the questions. Others collect the papers and address the questions via email or at the beginning of the next session.
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