Developing Our Practice: new presentational possibilities
For the keynote lecture Telecommunications and the speed of social bargaining:
the death of power distance given at SCOS
2002, we wanted to push the boundaries of conference presentations by
utilising a multi-media, interactive form that combined audio-visual presentational
technology with online web-based materials. This developed further, a method
of presentation, that had been used by the Odyssey Group for a
public lecture at Napier University in 2001.
One of the most significant aspects of this form of presentation is the
requirement for at least two people to be present, one person to present the
spoken material, and one to navigate the web links. This facilitates a distributed
presentation process whereby the reactions of the audience can be measured
and monitored, leading to variations in content and speed of the visual material.
There are 4 key steps to the process:
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Produce a conventional presentation (fully written paper,
script or notes etc.).
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Add web links to the written material.
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Construct a file of the web links in the 'Favorites' folder
of your internet browser, saving them in a list labelled A, B, C. This labelling
form allows quick and easy addition and moving around of links, utilising
new labels of AA, AAA, BB, BBB etc as required. Saving this 'Favorites'
file to a floppy disk facilitates the mobility of the web links to different
PCs at different locations.
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One person presents the spoken paper, whilst the other follows
the speech of the orator, navigating through the links as appropriate.This
may require simply posting up a home page or image, or may require more
complex scrolling through of several pages and hyperlinks. Here rehearsal
time for the two presenters is key to the presentation running smoothly.
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