Advice: good presentation tool

Advice: good presentation tool

by Derek Chirnside -
Number of replies: 1

Any suggestions for a new way to do presentation?

I've got a bunch of presentations coming up over the next year.  I'd like to improve my level of presentation visual.  Most sessions are a bit non  linear, and I cannot predict an order.  I'm not sure if I'll go A-B-C-D-E or A-C-D-E . .  etc.  where A,B,C etc are small numbers of slides/activities.

  • I can of course use PowerPoint with links.  Tiny little menu page etc etc.
  • I've had a look at Sliderocket.
  • Prezi doesn't really do this.
  • I looked at a few others (Slidedog for instance)
  • I may just do this in a word processor and save as a linked PDF.
  • I bought the premium Evernote for the presentation mode, but it is unusable.

I am constrained to PC platform.

Cheers, Derek

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Re: Advice: good presentation tool

by Matt Bury -
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Hi Derek,

I like this one: https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js

It's browser based (Javascript, and therefore web friendly and platform agnostic) and it has some nice features, like slides with sub-slides (2D slide layout), and a zoom-out mode so you can navigate directly to slides via a "thumbnail map."

It takes a while to learn all the keyboard shortcuts to make it really useful for live presentations though. You need to know some basic HTML to create new slide shows on it, so not particularly user-friendly.

It may not be everyone's cup of tea.

I hope this helps! smile

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