Tag: Presentation Tool

Replied to Experimenting with online events – Austin Kleon (Austin Kleon)

I recently figured out that software like Zoom lets you select different cameras and microphones on your computer, so it’s possible without much effort to quickly switch between my MacBook Pro camera, which is pointed at me, and my document camera, which is pointed at my desk, all while continuing to speak into my nice microphone.

Not sure if you are interested Austin, but I really enjoyed Aaron Parecki’s breakdown of his setup and workflow

Quite amazing what can be done now on the fly.

Liked control your video view (codepen.io)

This was inspired by a request from a faculty member teaching a speech class who wanted to see the presenter’s body language and the presentation at the same time. They found the Zoom presenter window to be too small. You can do some stuff with that on Zoom but not quite what I would want to do. You also might run into issues where you want to record your desktop on one of the free software options that doesn’t let you do picture-in-picture.

I thought I could make a nice, simple little page that would show a fairly large video window alongside a Google Presentation. That way your can record a single window and see it all at once or share that window on Zoom. It took about 20 or 30 minutes of work when I woke up way too early this morning but could become fancier with a little additional work.

Liked reveal.js – The HTML Presentation Framework by Hakim El Hattab (github.com)

reveal.js comes with a broad range of features including nested slides, Markdown contents, PDF export, speaker notes and a JavaScript API. There’s also a fully featured visual editor and platform for sharing reveal.js presentations at slides.com.