Attacking PowerPoint and Prezi — Is This Just Shooting the Messenger?
Perhaps poor presentations aren’t caused by the tools, but the content and delivery. PowerPoint or Prezi can’t cover for those problems.
Perhaps poor presentations aren’t caused by the tools, but the content and delivery. PowerPoint or Prezi can’t cover for those problems.
With changes in the scholarly communications world, many old questions for the library are unsettled once again, and many news ones arise. In this first part of a two-part post, we’ll ask the questions.
Udacity students can now transfer credits to Colorado State. Is this the start of something big?
In addition to what publishers do directly for authors and readers, they foster many collaborative and philanthropic efforts around the world.
Amazon’s new X-ray technology creates books that are automatically annotated. In doing this, the machine is beginning to preempt some aspects of the act of reading.
Want disco lights? Squids might be on your path to dance club heaven.
“Waste” is hard to define, and therefore hard to eliminate. And it’s not just a print phenomenon. Perhaps we need more than the minimum because the world is unpredictable, our abilities are finite and fleeting, and intellectual work is fairly extravagant.
The publication of short works opens up new opportunities for academic publishers that heretofore have had to choose between the forms of the article on one hand and the full-length book on the other.
Good advice is hard to come by. Here’s some of the best we’ve gotten over the years.
In space, nobody can hear you litigate.