'recent' is 5 years ago. But as a wild guess i think this has to do with your usage of html as the presentation format. It being a text based, syntaxy format. a

'recent' is 5 years ago. But as a wild guess i think this has to do with your usage of html as the presentation format. It being a text based, syntaxy format. although it does not need to be dry at all, as it is very powerful if you combine it with the right CSS and javascript, it requires highly specialised knowledge to do well, costs you a lot of your time and does not provide many benefits for presentation purposes. for the same reasons i would not suggest LaTeX either. i would imagine a HTML based presentation to end up looking like a 90's web site. plain blocks of text with some headers and an image here and there. no animations. that does tend to look dry and unpolished. not really at the level the average student is used to. if you want to get creative, MS powerpoint is much easier to work with, is WYSIWYG and allows you to easily insert things as you think of them. it has a lot of good looking formats, transitions between slides et cetera. it allows you to easily insert video content, allowing reuse of your past interactive sessions. i know i'm suggesting a university professor to use a laymans tool, but i am no academic and do not know of a more academic alternative. maybe it exists, you could take a look. Yet a lot of professors use powerpoint. most of them are not very good with it, so it might pay to invest a bit of time into learning it so you can produce a sleek looking professional-level presentation. Of course it is MS. In case you like open source, you could use libreoffice as well.