{"id":133,"date":"2006-11-17T10:59:44","date_gmt":"2006-11-17T10:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conclave.open.ac.uk\/r.m.ferguson\/archives\/133"},"modified":"2006-11-17T11:02:19","modified_gmt":"2006-11-17T11:02:19","slug":"powerpoint-v-keynote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/?p=133","title":{"rendered":"Powerpoint v Keynote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a seminar coming up that I&#8217;m planning to go to on the semiotics of Powerpoint. In the meantime I found this blog (the URL&#8217;s too long, so I&#8217;ve had to break it up)<a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/lesposen\/blogwavestudio\/LH20040807225237\/LHA20060422204527\/index.html\">http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/lesposen\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>blogwavestudio\/LH20040807225237\/LHA20060422204527\/index.html<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image132\" title=\"transitions20060109.jpg\" alt=\"transitions20060109.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/transitions20060109.thumbnail.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/>piece about how Keynote (see promotional pic) is infinitely better than Powerpoint &#8211; it frees you from endless blobby lists and transitions and &#8216;it doesn&#8217;t get in your way&#8217;. Yes, that&#8217;s just what good software should do &#8211; it shouldn&#8217;t get in your way.<\/p>\n<p>I read another blog post somewhere about making text-free Powerpoint presentations. Don&#8217;t use text &#8211; just think how wh<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image131\" title=\"oulogo_hor.gif\" alt=\"oulogo_hor.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/oulogo_hor.gif\" align=\"right\" \/>at you say can be represented in graphic form.<\/p>\n<p>But how would this work with the OU brand template?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a seminar coming up that I&#8217;m planning to go to on the semiotics of Powerpoint. In the meantime I found this blog (the URL&#8217;s too long, so I&#8217;ve had to break it up)http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/lesposen\/ blogwavestudio\/LH20040807225237\/LHA20060422204527\/index.html piece about how Keynote (see promotional pic) is infinitely better than Powerpoint &#8211; it frees you from endless blobby lists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things-to-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}