{"id":6862,"date":"2015-06-03T14:05:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T19:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=6862"},"modified":"2015-06-03T14:05:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T19:05:35","slug":"using-slides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/using-slides\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Slides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Bart Everson<\/p>\n<p>I just got back from <em><a href=\"http:\/\/meaningful.mozello.com\/\">Meaningful Living and Learning in a Digital World<\/a><\/em>, and I'll be sharing a number of ideas from that conference over the course of the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Always on the lookout for alternatives to Microsoft (shudder) PowerPoint, I was quite intrigued to see the keynote presenter (<a href=\"https:\/\/about.me\/tvthomas\">Tonya V. Thomas<\/a>) using Slides.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"WP_20140319_005 by Khedara \u0d86\u0dbb\u0dd2\u0dba\u0dbb\u0dad\u0dca\u0db1 \u848b\u9f99, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/khedara\/13270678904\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c2.staticflickr.com\/8\/7198\/13270678904_a595495b7d_n.jpg?resize=320%2C218&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"WP_20140319_005\" width=\"320\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you haven't heard of it, Slides is a web tool for creating and sharing presentations. Because it uses HTML 5, all you need is a web browser. There's nothing to download or install. It doesn't use Flash. Everything is stored in the cloud, so as long as you have internet access, you'll have access to all your presentations.<\/p>\n<p>Other features of note:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Works well with tablets and phones<\/li>\n<li>Can be embedded in web pages<\/li>\n<li>Exports to PDF<\/li>\n<li>Supports mathTeX (for displaying complex equations)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most interesting to me, you can add slides in both horizontal and vertical directions. Traditional slideshow presentations are one-dimensional (linear) but Slides can be two-dimensional, which opens up some intriguing possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>The free version is pretty good. You can try Slides yourself at <a href=\"http:\/\/slides.com\/\">Slides.com<\/a>. In my own tinkering, I've found it very easy to get started. If you'd like CAT to offer a workshop on this topic, leave a comment.<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/khedara\/13270678904\/\">Khedara \u0d86\u0dbb\u0dd2\u0dba\u0dbb\u0dad\u0dca\u0db1 \u848b\u9f99<\/a>.<br \/>\nFor other PowerPoint alternatives, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whiteboardblog.co.uk\/2014\/02\/10-alternatives-powerpoint-creating-great-presentations\/\">The Whiteboard Blog<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Bart Everson I just got back from Meaningful Living and Learning in a Digital World, and I'll be sharing a number of ideas from that conference over the course of the summer. Always on the lookout for alternatives to Microsoft (shudder) PowerPoint, I was quite intrigued to see the keynote presenter (Tonya V. Thomas) <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/using-slides\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Using Slides\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[126,287],"class_list":{"0":"post-6862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tech-tips-a-la-carte","7":"tag-engaging-presentations","8":"tag-slides-com","9":"h-entry","10":"hentry","11":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-1MG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5583,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/add-voice-narration-to-powerpoint-slides\/","url_meta":{"origin":6862,"position":0},"title":"Add Voice Narration to PowerPoint Slides","author":"Janice Florent","date":"February 11, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"by Janice Florent Did you know that you can add voiceovers (recorded narrations) to PowerPoint presentations? 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