A range of tools using Powerpoint and Adobe Flash including twitter feedback slides, Powerpoint auto-tweet, Powerpoint twitter voting. From Noeline Wright's speed seminar.
"Australian researchers have discovered information is best processed either orally or in writing, but not both ways simultaneously. Thus, PowerPoint presentations can backfire when what's on the screen is the same as what the speaker is saying, because audience attention is automatically divided."
"It's a product of Microsoft Office Labs that addresses some key shortcomings in the static, linear nature of everyone's favorite presentation tool... If all this sounds familiar, it's because this is not entirely unlike Prezi"
Plug-in for Moodle that allows for viewing of Word documents (2003 or 2007), Excel files, PowerPoints, PDFs and Open Office without the viewer needing the relevant program (eg Word) on their computer.
On this page we want to look at how to actively incorporate the backchannel (and hence the audience) in the presentation. This moves the presentation from one-way delivery to a two-way dialogue with the audience.