Week 4 (both of them) were pretty uneventful for this class - but hectic and personally challenging otherwise. Allergies led to Respiratory Infection, Boss took a week off from work (making me my own boss?!?!) thereby removing the buffer between my little world of work and the Command Staff, the Change of Command at my unit is rapidly approaching and everything is being dropped to ready for the event... but enough of that.
Finally got to jump in to Prezi... what a cool program. The very slidelessness of it all is amazing! I had fun attempting to learn how to use it (I still don't know how to get back to edit from the Show mode - I keep using the "back" button). I now that it has a ton more options and capabilities then I bothered it with for my first attempt... maybe I'll be able to do my next work presentation on it... I'm not going to hold my breath on that!
The slides in the Presentation Zen book (pages 165 on) are spectacular...
I remain slightly behind the eight ball on pictures, but I'm catching up.
The good news is that there is always more time and subjects for pictures. I think this would be a good task to keep up with even once the class is done. Just keep carrying a camera and taking pictures, and save the best ones.
ReplyDeletePrezi is an amazing tool, and I had a good time figuring out how to design a presentation. Did you find yourself using more pictures or bullets. The hardest part is to not fall back into all of the bad habits that we have developed with Powerpoint, i.e. lots of bullets. Did you figure out any interesting ways to present text in Prezi?
PS. I just finished the Escape from Alcatraz triathlon this weekend, so I understand the pain of training for a long event. I also did the Wisconsin Ironman about 2 years ago, so let me know if you have any questions.
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