Comments on: Tricking Out CoolIris as a Presentation Tool

By: Alan Levine aka CogDog

Alan Levine aka CogDog — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:34:31 +0000

@Cal: I appreciate the response, but let’s be careful about putting so much blame on the tools. I can equally do a crappy presentation in CoolIris and something that will blow your hair back in PowerPoint. It’s the craft, not the tools, that count (although I do find myself inspired by a shiny new drill)

By: Darren Kuropatwa

Darren Kuropatwa — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:00:20 +0000

Yeah, the ability to manage the links is important ... and the way you figured that out & implemented it is way cool. Darren Kuropatwa’s latest blog post...My Class Blogs: Part 1

By: Cal

Cal — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:21:41 +0000

Thanks! Let’s get this around as much as possible. I’m using CoolIris in our PD next week to hopefully re-invigorate our faculty; they’re on Powerpoint (so much like soma and as dangerous as meth) and need to be shaken out of their bulleted-encrusted, template-smothered, read-off-the-slide lectures.

By: Alan Levine aka CogDog

Alan Levine aka CogDog — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:48:05 +0000

@Darren Kuropatwa: I actually do that now for the opening eye candy I run before a session (often I do this in iPhoto with music); running CoolIris on a set of flickr photos (this past one on NMC I used one at http://flickr.com/photos/newmediaconsortium/sets/72157614386452341/) with music playing from iTunes. I can see doing this possibly for a preson where all the content is doable as flickr media. The thing the the MediaRSS approach does is allow my to specify the link I can jump out to in my preso as much of what I talk about references stuff on the web, using the "slide" as a launch point. This can happen in the flickr approach, if you put the links in the captions of your sets, and I can run now as quick CoolIris from any of my flickr based presentations -- http://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/collections/72157603606430489/. A flickr base allows you to add a lot of context content via the caption space. I do like and am wanting to give prezi a whirl... its in line for my next round of 50 Web 2.0 Ways to tell a story

By: Darren Kuropatwa

Darren Kuropatwa — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:46:56 +0000

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, you might like Prezi.com as a presentation tool too. They've developed a downloadable functionality so you can run your presentation from a local machine. I'm playing with it for an upcoming presentation I'm doing in July. Darren Kuropatwa’s latest blog post...My Class Blogs: Part 1

By: Darren Kuropatwa

Darren Kuropatwa — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:44:33 +0000

Jaw on the floor drooling goggle-eyed amazed at the sheer brilliance and your continued generosity. I once described your work as The Birth of The Cool and you've done it again. I was thinking, keeping the vids to 90 seconds max (which is probably a good idea in any presentation) means they can be uploaded to flickr. So, if you created a flickr set and uploaded your content in the order you wanted to present it, and since flickr is already cool iris friendly, if you then loaded the set page in your browser wouldn't that be an easy way to copy what you've done here without having to create a unique web page? Darren Kuropatwa’s latest blog post...My Class Blogs: Part 1

By: pumpkin

pumpkin — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:36:24 +0000

SOOOOOOO Cool. I’ve been playing with this a bit and as a “shortcut” to creating the RSS I’ve been using the favorites feature to assemble as much as I can, then cutting/pasting the source into an editor…

By: Lars

Lars — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:00:55 +0000

Thanks for showing us this, I’ll try to use it together with my students.

Lars

By: Dustin

Dustin — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:17:09 +0000

Alan,

Your presentation at SCC was simply awesome. The funny thing is I Googled “using cooliris to conduct presentations” and your post on academiccommons.org was third on the list. I started reading and said, “Hey! That is Alan and he is talking about the presentation he did at our college.” Your instructions have saved me loads of time.

Now I’m off to cooliris enable my website and start gathering some content for an upcoming presentation. Bye-bye PowerPoint!

~Dustin

By: Rob Wall

Rob Wall — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:59:25 +0000

Dude. Whoa. If presenters were rock bands, you would be The Who - what more can I say? It is now one of my life goals to see you give a presentation in person. And then borrow as many tricks and techniques as I could. Actually, there wouldn't be that many to borrow since you share them all so generously. Thanks for showing us how this is done. Rob Wall’s latest blog post...PTO with Google tasks (and other Gmail goodness)