There was life before PowerPoint. Does nybody have a clear acetate roll and
OHP markers within arms reach? I was never quite a master of cranking, talking, and entertain whilst fill in the gaps, smudging the colors and always mixed up my water and solvent based pens. Then I experimented with some huge ASCII based screen slides on a colour EGA monitor. (Say, how do I open an obscure Harvard
Graphics file from the early 1990's). <br><br>I notice your word doc. Now I archive nearly all my work now as PDF, ODT and ODP documents, these standards should be around for a long time. My favourite desktop search engines
<a href="http://www.copernic.com">Copernic</a> and <a href="http://beagle-project.org">Beagle</a> do a swell job of indexing these when I go mining about for data.<br>
<br>There is a cool extension to Firefox called <a href="http://karmatics.com/aardvark/">Aardvark</a> that can be used to isolate key parts of web pages, tweaking content to remove most advertising etc (as a rule, I leave in the author and licence info). I do this in Firefox then print to an Ubuntu PDF printer. This cleaned up PDF file is great to either distribute as handouts for my students or add to a Moodle discussion forum to stimulate some topic discussion amongst my students. A colleague pointed out that Aardvark also lets you see the parts that are used to build up some of the more complex web pages and mash-ups.
<br><br>Happy Easter term break everybody .. hope you get a visit from ye olde Bilby :-)<br><br>Regards Roland<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 05/04/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Timmer-Arends</b> <<a href="mailto:timmer@melbpc.org.au">
timmer@melbpc.org.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hello Roland<br><br><snip>PowerPoint Presentations are a disaster - new research shows that the
<br>human brain processes and retains more information if it is digested in<br>either its verbal or written form, but not both at the same time.<br><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2z4yrx">http://tinyurl.com/2z4yrx</a><br></snip>
<br><br>Interesting to see that research has supported what some people have been<br>arguing for a long time now, but then I would also note that the report<br>says:<br>"It is effective to speak to a diagram, because it presents information in a
<br>different form. " - so (as the cliche would have it) PPT is not bad per se,<br>it's how you use it.<br><br>Attached an interesting article I found some time ago - unfortunately I<br>converted it a Word doc and no longer have the refs. Also
<br><a href="http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/making.html">http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/making.html</a> and its links make an<br>interesting reading<br><br>Regards<br>Robert T-A<br>_______________________________________________
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