Somewhere in this thread is mention of an application called Prezi, however, search is not sufficiently granular for me to find the particular sentence
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However, I was just blown away today because a young lady, who, of course, is not at all qualified to do THAT kind of stuff in a male dominated Internet..... use Prezi in here ....presentation!
And, without being prompted she opined, after the presentation, something to the effect of:
"Most people just don't need all the stuff that is in PPT.(and by implication) most other office software) for "everyday" use.
She had done a project on "leaves" discussing, generally, about the idea that the reason a leaf "is green" is because the leaf uses all of the other colours of the spectrum except "green" and reflects it, (or transmits it).
Since she had done the project early in the fall, she had collected leaves over a period of time, from different trees and of different hues and arranged them on her carpet into pleasing arrangements showing the colours, species, etc.
And had taken pictures thereof.
She then made a Prezi presentation for it and the "fluid motion" of it going from one information area to another was...well....tres kewl!
And she said, something to the effect of: "You don't need to fiddle with timing, or transitions or whether this kind of text is there or that kind there or being able to include music or a snippet of a video from YouTube".
One of the big criticisms of Win8 is that in being two GUIS in one package that there is very LOW density of information and the low density is all stuff that is "on the cloud" in terms of articles, etc.
It may just be that MS has actually figured out something about "most" users....
And that is;
"Most" users are not ....power users.....
just a thought inspired by a 99 percenter (grade/intelligence/motivation/creativity - wise) young lady who is probably going to actually "go places".
http://prezi.com/
woodsmoke
[The thread mentioned above. --Admin]
However, I was just blown away today because a young lady, who, of course, is not at all qualified to do THAT kind of stuff in a male dominated Internet..... use Prezi in here ....presentation!
And, without being prompted she opined, after the presentation, something to the effect of:
"Most people just don't need all the stuff that is in PPT.(and by implication) most other office software) for "everyday" use.
She had done a project on "leaves" discussing, generally, about the idea that the reason a leaf "is green" is because the leaf uses all of the other colours of the spectrum except "green" and reflects it, (or transmits it).
Since she had done the project early in the fall, she had collected leaves over a period of time, from different trees and of different hues and arranged them on her carpet into pleasing arrangements showing the colours, species, etc.
And had taken pictures thereof.
She then made a Prezi presentation for it and the "fluid motion" of it going from one information area to another was...well....tres kewl!
And she said, something to the effect of: "You don't need to fiddle with timing, or transitions or whether this kind of text is there or that kind there or being able to include music or a snippet of a video from YouTube".
One of the big criticisms of Win8 is that in being two GUIS in one package that there is very LOW density of information and the low density is all stuff that is "on the cloud" in terms of articles, etc.
It may just be that MS has actually figured out something about "most" users....
And that is;
"Most" users are not ....power users.....
just a thought inspired by a 99 percenter (grade/intelligence/motivation/creativity - wise) young lady who is probably going to actually "go places".
http://prezi.com/
woodsmoke
both look far more flexible then powerpoint does.
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