User-friendly — The program features a simple interface that even newbies can navigate. Theme options — Keynote offers a wide range of eye-catching themes to create a more engaging presentation. Position-ready — It allows you to easily align and position elements with basic setup options.
Multimedia-friendly — The program is specially designed to naturally integrate images, sounds, videos, and other multimedia files. Magic Move — Both the animation and transition effects of the program are show-stoppers. Straightforward preview — The program provides an easy-to-use formatting toolbar and inspector window for instant preview and tweaking.
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Subscribe and get your Presentation Guide for free! The complete guide of making great presentations. Presentation Knowledge Hub. Perhaps for people in the very front, there was a bit more detail to be had in the traditional slides, but in general they were darker with an amber cast that deadened some of the colors.
I have also seen very poor quality images from digital projectors, usually due to the operator choosing wacky preset adjustments available in the projector menus, or from poor quality source files. We've had good luck with some more recent projectors that put out lots of lumens. Lots of lumens really helps, especially because of the ambient light in many rooms. Usually art schools have well-darkened meeting rooms that are good for projecting images.
I think that images can now be stored right in the projector, although we currently use Keynote as our Projector Operating System. Reasons: the intuitive interface, the elegant workflow, the superior quality of typesetting, and the reliable handling of imported graphic formats. Nervous breakdowns caused by last-minute PP breakdowns are also avoided. Keynote is taught to be used mainly as the projection tool rather than a presentation system.
I also routinely encourage my colleagues to export their slides as Acrobat PDF multi-page documents for portability i.
A digression into the evolutionary analysis of software development: it is interesting to note that the "ur"-PowerPoint was initially created by the same outfit as the "ur"-FileMaker DBMS. Their user interfaces shared a number of features. Compare the present state of their respective user interface. I do a lot of teaching and in my various lectures and I've always be shy of the Powerpoint approach, because anything worth demonstrating 'in person' requires something more than the screen-based approach.
I wont comment on the class of things which are presented 'in person' which would be better presented via a flyer or pamphlet. I'd recommend presenters learn something about body language, rhetoric or even something like NLP which is unfashionable but still useful. If you get really good, you can use the 'distraction factor' of slideware to your advantage.
This whole debate about PowerPoint reminds me rather of the mid s shift from the card-index metaphor Hypercard et. If the screen display should be really useful, and really illustrative, it should demonstrate relationships between potentially dynamic data sources. Powerpoint certainly fails there, and Keynote is scarcely better. If you need more sophistication, learn to use Flash or Director and you'll have more useful options available. If I need to illustrate my lectures, I'll typically throw together a Director presentation, with a little custom scripting, or perhaps if it should be more linear an art historical lecture, for example I might go for a PDF presented with Apple Preview yes, Preview is indeed a remarkable and underrated tool!
PowerPoint is what you use when you don't know any better in which case you probably shouldn't be lecturing in the first place. The main difference is that it does not offer as many 'features' as PowerPoint. Perhaps that's a blessing in disguise, although I shudder to think what kind of horrors will now be visited upon us Response to Apple's Keynote vs Microsoft's PowerPoint Presentation Zen is an awesome site with some what-not-to-do methods in Powerpoint as well as other ways of doing presentations.
Perhaps slides-as-chorus is good for this sort of talk. ET's use of material in his one-day course is not so dissimilar. Compared to the one-day course, slides-as-chorus is actually rather one-dimensional. However, slides-as-chorus plays quite well on the Internet. I don't know how an ET course would fair on the Internet in comparison, though I suspect it may hold its own. Response to Apple's Keynote vs Microsoft's PowerPoint While researching about William McDonogh's Cradle to Cradle approach to design, I came across a digital and normal whiteboard system available here that is certified silver on his system.
This system does seem to provide the professional look required, but at the same time the flexibility required for an effective presentation.
Response to Apple's Keynote vs Microsoft's PowerPoint Presentation tools' weaknesses have been discussed quite thoroughly. The spatial information permitted within these tools is certainly well known as lacking. Much of the above discussion is regarding the presenter's view point -- how hard or easy to use the tools, their fitness for a specific purpose, etc.
What is most central is what happens after the presentation. In the corporate world, "slides" are sent around to various agencies, many of whom did not attend the presentation. One of the major points made in Professor Tufte's work is that context is everything. If a presentation requires a presenter, it should never be sent to anyone else. If it can not stand on its own with intelligence and language constructs which accurately convey the intended meaning, it should not be sent without a copy of the presenter giving their pitch.
Just a few minutes ago I encountered a slide on my boss's CPU which said "so and so is operational. The point -- in my view, the most central point in Professor Tufte's essay -- is that the author can lie about the facts and get away with it because no one thinks critically about the content.
They often distort the facts by placing "contrary data" to the title directly underneath as a means of CYA. They then feel as though they've been intellectually honest as "the facts are there. Context is everything. If the data you need to present is difficult, spend the time to create a means which can stand alone i. No flowering marketing language.
Don't hide behind "operational" when "barely breathing" is the truth. Titles in PP are king. If you have to use the tool, you the author have a responsibility to assume your readers will not be present at your presentation and that you need to communicate truth enough via the title alone that the context of the slide is properly set.
I, for one, am on a personal mission to seek to change the culture of senior management within the Fortune company I work for, by personally appealing to each senior manager with a copy of this Essay. If a single Fortune company can become substantially more effective by NOT using PP, or at least using it more critically, eventually the corporate numbers will catch up to this fact and the corporation will pull away from its competitors.
That in turn could lead to major changes in other corporations and in corporate culture. Deal with it. Keynote runs rings around PowerPoint all day long. PowerPoint against one another to lay out the pros and cons of each. For Mac users, there are two pretty obvious choices — Keynote and PowerPoint. But which do you choose? Should you always stick with one, or use different apps for different presentations?
Download thousands of Keynote templates, and many other design elements, with a monthly Envato Elements membership. Explore Keynote Templates. When it comes to making the choice of Keynote vs. PowerPoint for presentation software, understanding where each tool works best is key.
Keynote is presentation software designed for Apple devices, so it will only work on computers, tablets, and phones running iOS software.
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