i am glad to see you adopt the use of slideshare as a microformatted, searchable platform for presentations.
It is my conviction, after working with content in presentation form, that the Pareto principal applies to slidesharing also. ( the vital and significant few, versus the trivial many)
viz.most presentations in spoken, video and/or PPT formats contain key "frames" that allow for peer reviewers to abstract and abridge such content yielding "high chunk" synthesis at an approximate 20/80 proportion
20% are the key frames to give you the gist of what is being presented.
80% are the frames you can put in your playlist for when you have time to listen or view the entire presentation.
Try me -- give me a slideshare set to review and I will abstract the key frames and report back to you.
In an economy of overabundant content and attention scarcity - key frame abridgment and abstraction will be the best way to keep up with the flood of content.
# posted by Anonymous : Saturday, 20 January, 2007
Hi Dave,
Very informative, as always.
I heard of slideshare first from you and finally had some time to try it at work -it has much promise as a facilitation tool for teaching and student peer to peer work.
I'll take you up on your offer -I will try to digg up a ppt that I aimed at an adult audience ( most of my consulting experience unfortunately was in the day of the much vaunted overhead transparency and I have not done anything recently) but perhaps I'll show you one designed for my students, and then you can critique them.
Sure, go ahead. Let's see how the slide concept evolves. I think I posted the companion ones on slideshare as well for future use. Have at any and all of them.