Which service for sharing presentations online is right for you? This presentation can help you decide!

1. Which Online
Presentation Service
Is Right for You?
FacProfDev
2014
by R. Christopher Heard

2. Which service for sharing presentations
online is right for you?

3. What do you want the viewer to experience?
?

4. Do you want the presentation to feel
something like a traditional lecture?
Embedded sound • • • • • •
Timed slide advancement • • • • •

5. Do you want viewers to self-pace their
progress through the presentation?
Manual slide advancement • • • • • • • •

6. Support users who have limited vision.
Embedded sound • • • • • •

7. Support users who have limited hearing.
Closed-captioning • •
File attachments •

8. You may need to publish “slidedocs” (Nancy
Duarte’s term) instead of “presentations.”

9. Beware of “faux transcripts” auto-
generated from slide text.
Faux transcripts • • • • •

10. Do you want to distribute handouts?
File attachments $

11. May viewers download your presentation?
Downloadable slideshows • • • • •

12. May viewers share your presentation?
Embed codes • • • • • • • • •
Social sharing • • • • • • • •

13. Can viewers use mobile devices
to view your presentation?
Works in mobile browsers • • • • • • • • •
as static images, no sound works via dedicated app displayed as PDF

14. ?What do you want to experience?

15. Do you want to create your presentation online?
Prepare show online • •

16. Do you prefer to prepare your
presentation offline?
Prepare show offline • • • • • • • •

17. Do you prefer to prepare a video offline?
Prepare video offline $ • •

18. Do you want to record a video directly
to the hosting service?
Prepare video online •

19. +
User’s
experience
=
Presenter’s
experience
Preferred
solution

20. Closed-captioning • •
Downloadable slideshows • • • • •
Embed codes • • • • • • • • •
Embedded sound • • • • • •
File attachments $
Manual slide advancement • • • • • • • •
Prepare show offline • • • • • • • •
Prepare show online • •
Prepare video offline $ • •
Prepare video online •
Social sharing • • • • • • • •
Timed slide advancement • • • • •
Works in mobile browsers • • • • • • • • •
as static images, no sound works via dedicated app displayed as PDF

21. Learning Circle 2: Shreyas Ghandi, Chris Heard,
Linda Lavadia, Leola Oliver, Dan Morrison
Lead IT Facilitator: Hong Kha
Faculty Facilitator: Margaret Riel
FacProfDev
2014
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Design and Content ©2014 R. Christopher Heard