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A better way to do remote presentations

36 points by petercooper 6y ago

politelemon 6y ago
Teams has solved most of this by giving viewers a client side copy, adjust to your local viewing preferences, and to jump around in the slides and back to wherever the presenter is.
- yokaze 6y ago
  What's missing though is a synchronization of videos played in the presentation.
- ciberado 6y ago
  Even with teams, this is a very nice approach as you can use another device to see the slides/watch the speaker. I've been delivering training in a similar way for a few months and the experience (as trainer!) has improved a lot because I'm able to keep a much more direct contact with the students. And a remarkable point (I think) is that you are not limited to 5-10 fps provided by the shared screen feature: the transitions between slides becomes much more natural, less clunky. I really think delivering good remote training is very complex as we need to learnt new tricks (and forget some old ones). And, in the end, is the sum of many little small improvements like this one what can make the experience a success. Edited, to correct a bit my poor English ;-)
RajSinghLA 6y ago
Docsend does this too. Have you seen their functionality? Curious if your vision is different
gaul 6y ago
Every talk should include a link to the slides at the beginning and end of the deck, preferably with a shortened URL. This allows live viewers random access but also improves recorded talks. I often want to evaluate the content of a talk to see if I should invest 30-60 minutes watching. This would also help users with accessibility needs.
- mjd 6y ago
  Absolutely this. I've also taken to putting a QR code on the first slide in the deck, when I give the talk live. It seems silly to have people rush top copy down the URL when we have this convenient URL-communicating technology at hand. (Example" https://perl.plover.com/classes/greenlight/samples/slide001.html https://perl.plover.com/classes/greenlight/samples/slide001....)

36 points by petercooper 6y ago

Teams has solved most of this by giving viewers a client side copy, adjust to your local viewing preferences, and to jump around in the slides and back to wherever the presenter is.

yokaze 6y ago
What's missing though is a synchronization of videos played in the presentation.
ciberado 6y ago
Even with teams, this is a very nice approach as you can use another device to see the slides/watch the speaker. I've been delivering training in a similar way for a few months and the experience (as trainer!) has improved a lot because I'm able to keep a much more direct contact with the students. And a remarkable point (I think) is that you are not limited to 5-10 fps provided by the shared screen feature: the transitions between slides becomes much more natural, less clunky. I really think delivering good remote training is very complex as we need to learnt new tricks (and forget some old ones). And, in the end, is the sum of many little small improvements like this one what can make the experience a success. Edited, to correct a bit my poor English ;-)

RajSinghLA 6y ago

Docsend does this too. Have you seen their functionality? Curious if your vision is different

gaul 6y ago

Every talk should include a link to the slides at the beginning and end of the deck, preferably with a shortened URL. This allows live viewers random access but also improves recorded talks. I often want to evaluate the content of a talk to see if I should invest 30-60 minutes watching. This would also help users with accessibility needs.

mjd 6y ago
Absolutely this. I've also taken to putting a QR code on the first slide in the deck, when I give the talk live. It seems silly to have people rush top copy down the URL when we have this convenient URL-communicating technology at hand. (Example" https://perl.plover.com/classes/greenlight/samples/slide001.html https://perl.plover.com/classes/greenlight/samples/slide001....)