Comments on: Good science presentations? http://www.thepowerofgoo.net/2007/08/12/good-science-presentations/ exploring high-performance soot and other interesting polymers Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:58:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Andrew Wilcox http://www.thepowerofgoo.net/2007/08/12/good-science-presentations/#comment-1530 Andrew Wilcox Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:46:35 +0000 http://www.thepowerofgoo.net/2007/08/12/good-science-presentations/#comment-1530 <p>I use MindManager regularly for presentations. It has a presentation mode which removes the toolbar clutter and drives you around the map. However you are still able to use all the tools to add notes to the map during your presentation or visit linked documents and web pages.</p> <p>I also use MindManager to prepare presentations which are exported to PowerPoint. This allows you to remain in the content mode for as long as possible before worrying about presentation. It is also useful to prepare a map about your audience and their needs. You can use a printed copy of the map as guide for yourself during the presentation.</p> <p>Sometimes I present using a mix of the two. See this page for some videos of that happening. http://www.cabre.co.uk/presenting.html</p> I use MindManager regularly for presentations. It has a presentation mode which removes the toolbar clutter and drives you around the map. However you are still able to use all the tools to add notes to the map during your presentation or visit linked documents and web pages.

I also use MindManager to prepare presentations which are exported to PowerPoint. This allows you to remain in the content mode for as long as possible before worrying about presentation. It is also useful to prepare a map about your audience and their needs. You can use a printed copy of the map as guide for yourself during the presentation.

Sometimes I present using a mix of the two. See this page for some videos of that happening.
http://www.cabre.co.uk/presenting.html

]]> By: Andrew Sun http://www.thepowerofgoo.net/2007/08/12/good-science-presentations/#comment-1524 Andrew Sun Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:21:58 +0000 http://www.thepowerofgoo.net/2007/08/12/good-science-presentations/#comment-1524 <p>I still prefer PowerPoint. 'Points' is my best way to illustrate ideas. However, mind-map slides also sound useful when you need to display the logical relation among the points.</p> <p>I don't like just putting isolated diagrams into several slides and talking about them one by one. You must have your points listed first for those diagrams to support.</p> <p>PowerPoint seems to prefer its user list all the points out with several levels of indentation. It is not suitable, of course, for 'brain storm'.</p> I still prefer PowerPoint. ‘Points’ is my best way to illustrate ideas. However, mind-map slides also sound useful when you need to display the logical relation among the points.

I don’t like just putting isolated diagrams into several slides and talking about them one by one. You must have your points listed first for those diagrams to support.

PowerPoint seems to prefer its user list all the points out with several levels of indentation. It is not suitable, of course, for ‘brain storm’.

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