Some of the discussion in my recent post giving example slides made me realize a problem with the way I posted them-- converting the slides to PDF loses the transition effects, which are a significant part of the lecture.
In an attempt to address this, here's a crude simulation of the effect, done by making incremental copies of two slides, to show how the text is revealed. The slides in question are from the Camp College lecture, if you want to see them in context.
(Somebody else in comments suggested using SlideShare, which I would've tried, if the page had successfully loaded in, say, the eight hours that I left it running yesterday...)
This will probably be the last PowerPoint post for a good while, unless something else comes up...
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Speaking of conferences (as we were a little while ago), the Female Science Professor has a post on the phenomenon of logos in talk slides:
Several people in the geekout thread asked me to explain how a sliderule works, and I've been meaning to write a couple of article about manual computing devices. So I thought I'd do it.
Having just returned from a long trip where I gave three talks, one of the first things I saw when I started following social media closely again was this post on how to do better pr
Bad teaching is one of my pet peeves, but I go back and forth on PowerPoint. I think its egregious abuse most of its users shouldn't necessarily bring a cloud on the whole program -- sometimes it is used effectively.