SlideShare – presentation book recommendations

Quoting from an email from SlideShare about presentation book recommendations from their “Facebook Friends”, the following are some of their favourite presentation books:

• The Craft of Scientific Presentations: Critical Steps to Succeed and Critical Errors to Avoid
  by Michael Alley
• The Jelly Effect: How to Make Your Communication Stick
  by Andy Boundes
• slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations
  by Nancy Duarte
• The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs
  by Carmine Gallo
• Clear and to the Point: 8 Psychological Principles for Compelling PowerPoint Presentations
  by Stephen M. Kosslyn
• Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery
  by Garr Reynolds
• The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
  by Dan Roam

Prezi – more thoughts, pros and cons

I was trying to embrace Prezi for a presentation I was giving yesterday, and it started quite well, I enjoyed arranging the content and it was giving me a new perspective i.e. I was conscious of how linear my thought process was and so I was trying to change this. But in the end this process was scuppered by lack of Internet connection (over several days). I realise you can pay to use Prezi offline, but I don’t want to pay for this service! In the end I reverted to a linear PowerPoint. Now I appreciate being online so much more!

A new Prezi pro point: there is now an iPad app for Prezi!

Screencasting sessions by JISC Digital Media

JISC Digital Media Online Surgery has a series of sessions on screencasting coming up that look really interesting. All sessions take place on Wednesdays between 1.30-2.30pm and can be accessed via your computer using the Elluminate environment.
Details here: http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/surgery

• The major technical issues surrounding screencasting – 19 January 2011
• Considerations for screencasts as teaching and learning support resources – 26 January 2011
• Using a screencast as a lecture capture tool – 02 February 2011
• Using a screencast to provide feedback – 09 February 2011