2. Useful Alternatives to PowerPoint for Instruction Librarians WILU May 10, 2013 Brad Sietz LOEX, Eastern Michigan University

3.  Where are we?  How and why did we get here?  Where are we (kind of) going and what tools can take us there?  Questions

4.  How many attendees have access to MS Office at their job?  How many attendees utilize:  Google Drive (i.e., Docs)  Prezi  Some other online presentation tool?

5. ConferenceGoogle DocsPreziPPT LOEX 20120141 20110229 20103428 WILU 20121129 20111315 2010No website LOTW 20123*824 20103^325 * One of these is a LibGuide, a research guide site ; ^ Two are LibGuides A few presentations were posted to SlideShare, a web site for sharing slide presentations, typically PowerPoint, so they were counted as such.

6.  PowerPoint still is the clear leader  Not typical in technology ▪ Browsers ▪ Computers ▪ Phones ▪ Search (Google getting there?)  Replaced the standard / became the standard

8.  Here it comes  From over here  With lots, and lots, and lots, and lots, and lots, and lots, and lots, and lots, and lots, and lots, and lots, and lots, and lots, and lots, and lots, and lots, and lots, and lots, and lots, and lots, and lots, and lots of text  And great sound!  With well-worn clip art

9.  Free  Rise of the “cloud” / “Web 2.0”  Collaboration  Be different  More modern look & feel  Streamlined  Picture-based  New platforms & new company ecosystems  Mobile/tablets

10.  Apps within Google Drive  Similar to MS Office suite ; integrates with it  Cloud-based  Allows offline syncing  Mobile-friendly  Simple to…  Acquire / setup  Use  Real-time collaboration

11.  “Simple Online Document Management”  Similar to MS Office suite ; integrates with it  Cloud-based  No offline product, but can use PPT  Similar functionality and look & feel to Google Docs For those who like to be different

12.  Nothing (really) to see here

13.  Started in 2009  Single-canvas model  Emphasis on movement / flow  Co-edit with another person  Free-version is solely cloud-based

14.  Bad “PowerPoint” habits come back  Spinning (causes ‘vertigo’)  Movement for its own sake  Excessive words / graphics  Too much small text

15.  Useful to integrate live streams (e.g., Twitter) or other sites (e.g., Pinterest, FourSquare) directly into presentation  Like other tools (from PPT to Prezi) you can also include/embed videos  Web-based, so sites like Google Maps will work directly

16.  It’s been acquired

17.  All the past features, plus the new style  The new Office 2013 and 365 do NOT run on Windows XP and Vista (i.e., you need 7 or 8) or Mac OS X 10.6 or later ▪ This would preclude my EMU computer, for instance

18.  Access to internet is not guaranteed  Even if access is, quality is not  Browsers do not always place nice  Firefox struggled with Prezi at WILU  Information being conveyed is often linear Conferences – keep it local

19.  Budget  Equipment (new enough?)  How file will be accessed by user  Solo vs. group project  Functionality needed  Background of individual  Temperament of individual

20.  Maybe just a handout with key points/agenda and/or space for notes

21.  bsietz@emich.edu