Category Archives: Presenting

The whys and hows of conference presentations and related issues.

Getting started using Prezi

In the last post, Melonie Fullick gave a review of Prezi based on her experience of using it for her recent conference presentation. Here are Melonie’s thoughts on the process of learning to use Prezi, along with useful links to … Continue reading

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Presentations, articles, and writing to think

Shortly after Congress, Melonie Fullick shared a copy of her presentation. She’d used a new online presentation software called Prezi and I was intrigued with the possibilities. I asked her to write about it for us. In addition to the … Continue reading

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Your conference paper & how you present it

The academic conference paper serves a couple of purposes. draft of an eventual journal article getting feedback meeting people with similar interests You probably have 15-20 minutes to present. And one of the most common complaints about conference presentations is … Continue reading

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Self-organizing is possible at any conference (reprise)

Back in … I wrote a blog post about unconferences. As the formal conference season approaches (in UK and Canada at least), I wanted to bring back some of that post to encourage you to take control of your conference … Continue reading

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Learning to use images

Moving from knowing that images do things words can do to actually using images well in presentations and other work is hard. I’ve learned a lot about that in the past year. For example, finding representational images after you’ve written the content is probably the hardest way to go about it.

I’m now figuring how to use images to help you be a better academic. If you want to help me test a new tool … Continue reading

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