Comments on: Presentation for Ontario Library Association http://freerangelibrarian.com/2005/02/04/presentation-for-ontario-library-association/ K.G. Schneider's blog on librarianship, writing, and everything else, since 2003. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:55:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Anna http://freerangelibrarian.com/2005/02/04/presentation-for-ontario-library-association/#comment-1122 Anna Mon, 07 Feb 2005 02:22:05 +0000 http://www.freerangelibrarian.com/2005/02/04/presentation-for-ontario-library-association/#comment-1122 Have you played with S5? I saw a presentation done with it at Online Northwest and it looked like a favorable alternative to PowerPoint. I'm not a big fan of slide shows in presentations, since they are often used as a crutch for the lack of substance in the presentation. However, they can be handy for showing examples and illustrations. <a href="http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/" rel="nofollow"><a href="http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/" rel="nofollow">http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/</a></a> From the S5 FAQ: "The other advantage, of course, is the very small size of the slide show files. You could just about create a fully styled fifty-slide S5 presentation in the same number of kilobytes needed for a single-slide Powerpoint file that had minimal text and no styles." Have you played with S5? I saw a presentation done with it at Online Northwest and it looked like a favorable alternative to PowerPoint. I’m not a big fan of slide shows in presentations, since they are often used as a crutch for the lack of substance in the presentation. However, they can be handy for showing examples and illustrations.

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From the S5 FAQ:
“The other advantage, of course, is the very small size of the slide show files. You could just about create a fully styled fifty-slide S5 presentation in the same number of kilobytes needed for a single-slide Powerpoint file that had minimal text and no styles.”

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