Bigging Up the Big Read #digimanc #Speaking

Part of my Keynote session for #digimanc, and one day event (the first of an anticipated range of local events), held in Manchester today:

Workshop on Prezi @_UOW

Encouraging MA in Cultural & Arts Management students to use Prezi… we’ll have a 2 hour session tonight, which will include practicalities, and as we go through, how this changes the possibilities of presentation:

Social Networking Sites as Converged Texts

Just starting this lecture:


See the accompanying rough notes.

Be Salt & Light in the Online World #vsn11

The talk we’re just about to give:

Social Media develops academic literacy skills #pelc11

The paper that I’m just about to give:

Tips & Tricks for Viral Videos (with YouTube)

What would you add/remove from this – I have a feeling that I want the ‘mechanics’ of YouTube separate… but we’ll see…

An Introduction to Prezi (Workshop)

Anyone have any further tips & tricks, suggestions of good exemplars of Prezis, etc.?

An Introduction to (free) Survey Monkey

Thoughts on using Prezi as a teaching tool // Paul Hill

Prezi, the tool that some claim will knock PowerPoint into touch, is a very simple tool to use… easy to learn, and, as we’re always looking for, allows us to do some different things in the classroom – particularly in this case, thinking in a non-linear fashion (although if you add ‘pathways’ they are still pretty linear), and allowing multiple authors to edit the presentation. Find the lack of design options a bit limiting, but if you use the basic white option, and use good images…

Prezi – “10 ways to say it”