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March 25, 2007
45 Sites in 45 Minutes
Humor, travel, music, and even a few research sites were featured in 45 Sites in 45 Minutes, presented by Michael Saint-Onge (LexisNexis) and yours truly last weekend at the SCALL Institute - Global Legal Landscapes. This was my second presentation of this nature to SCALL and I had a great time.
You may recall that last year I spent much of my preparation time looking for the right tool to use to download the featured web pages in case of a technical catastrophe. After all, it would be a little hard to fake it without the web. I went back to last year's entry, saw that I used NetSnippets, and figured I'd do the same this year. With new computers at home and at work, I just needed to download and install it again. Except.....it seems that Netsnippets has been discontinued. It was back to the drawing board.
There was precious little time left; after all, I didn't think this was a problem I needed to solve AGAIN, so I waited until just a few days before the presentation to work on the download. This time around I decided to take the easy way out. I captured screenshots to Powerpoint, and decided that would have to do in a pinch.
Whether this kind of backup is still necessary is hard to say. It inevitably takes a couple of hours to compile, and considering the fact that Internet connections in conference hotels and elsewhere are becoming quite reliable, perhaps I'm going overboard. But just when I think I'm ready to fly without a net, I imagine myself in front of an audience with....nothing, and I start grabbing screenshots again.
This was my first time using a wiki for a presentation. It turned out to be a very easy and efficient way for MIchael and I to collaborate. I'm really liking PB Wiki's new WYSIWYG editor. It's unquestionably easier than remembering the special wiki syntax that PB Wiki used before.
I've been spotting presentation wikis fairly frequently over the past year. Here's just a couple of examples:
Technology Training in Libraries
60 Sites in 60 Minutes at the Texas Library Association
Sometimes wikis are the actual presentation medium, other times they've created to distribute supplementary information and handouts. Just think, you could continue to collaborate and communicate with your audience after the program is over. Try THAT with PowerPoint!
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