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The most useful part of this link was finding prezi, which is awesome, and I hadn't heard of it before.
by axiom 17y ago
The most useful part of this link was finding prezi, which is awesome, and I hadn't heard of it before.
- Qz 17y agoYeah that was pretty snazzy, and yet somehow seems so obvious!
- blahedo 17y agoYes; I'd never seen an essay arranged visually like that. In parts it was not better, just different (but not worse), but there were several points where the format considerably added to the essay. Now I have to go check out the rest of that site.
- araneae 17y agoFor me, it was much worse than a normal essay, because it was too slow. I dislike having to wait between chunks of text like that. It was cute and gimmicky at the beginning, but I quickly lost patience. The website is certainly cool for presentations, but it's a terrible format for an essay.
- sesqu 17y agoI assume you found the "autoplay" button? I just clicked through the whole thing, and the short animation-induced delays were actually welcome. It would have been unbearable if I couldn't control the speed, though.
- blueben 17y agoIf you were racing through the presentation, could you have seriously been reflecting on its contents? Much of the visual movement was designed to accompany a process of thought. In short, you might consider chewing your food instead of swallowing it whole.
- araneae 17y agoI am a very fast reader. Every time I say this, someone accuses me of not thoroughly understanding what I read. But I've excelled at pretty much every reading comprehension test I've ever taken, so it's getting kind of old.
- _delirium 17y agoFor some reason, over the past year or so it's become almost standard in the humanities (but not in science/engineering). I'm in CS but occasionally go to interdisciplinary conferences, where every CS person will have a PowerPoint, while every humanist who has a digital presentation at all will have a Prezi (to a close approximation).
- eru 17y agoHow did LaTeX-presentations fare?
- _delirium 17y agoAh, those happen too, though not as much at the type of interdisciplinary conferences where you'd also have a lot of humanities people--- seems to be mainly a thing for people who need equations in their presentation, esp. in cs-theory. I sort of prefer latex presentations myself, but just because I like editing source-code-like stuff rather than editing a presentation in a GUI tool.
- eru 17y ago> [...] seems to be mainly a thing for people who need equations in their presentation, esp. in cs-theory. Indeed. At the International Conference on Functional Programming last year LaTeX was the norm. I enjoyed the hand-written slides somebody had produced on their tablet pc.