The class I TA for has to create presentations in Powerpoint using transitions and music. A million miles from Presentation Zen, hey? There are some good examples of stand-alone presentations using transitions and music though - caveat is, stand-alone is an important point. If you tried to present with so much movement behind you, your ...
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Video Presentations
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The Social Networking Assignment
My supervisor teaches classes in the business school, and is looking for an assignment on Social Networking to use, perhaps as early as next semester. Of course given that I spend much of my time thinking about, reading about and writing about social networking and most of the rest of it actually socially networking myself, ...
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International Students
There was an article in the Ottawa Citizen the other day about international students. Apparently at Carleton, 1 in 5 graduate students is an international. Of course, this averages across all subjects - my experience is that in Computer Science (and likely the rest of Science and Engineering) the ratio is higher. When I first ...
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Week in Brief
So last week I put up a list of things I hoped to get done last week. I did not achieve all of them, or anywhere near. WISE Speaker event WISE Coffee social (bake!) WISE Self-defense seminar - Questionable whether I can check this off, it was a disaster. Organize meeting for WISE, outline the plan for Women in ...
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Social Networking
I got an email from my dad the other day, asking me what I used Twitter for. I wasn't sure why he was asking so I asked for clarification and got this response: "Just discussing Social Networking it would help to know why you use it and what you get from it". "Social Networking" is a ...
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Time
Being so busy this week has got me thinking about the concept of "having time". We all have 60 minutes in each hour and 24 of them in each day for however many weeks, months, years or - hopefully - decades we have left on this planet. We just can't know how long that is. I ...
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Manic Monday
I've wasted a chunk of the afternoon having a bit of a panic attack. This morning I had physio on my knee, followed by an hour of time hanging out in SITE waiting to meet with the guy who's course I'm TA-ing (I read some of the 60 page book chapter I'm carrying about with ...
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Your Customers on Twitter
Twitter has a load of random uses. So far, I feel they fall into 4 categories: making things tweet, ridiculous, heart-warming and innovative. Making things tweet: an office beer tap, pets, plants, unborn babies, laundry machines, electricity consumption meter, the oven, a chair, a rocket, a house, your server. Ridiculous: promote your brothel (Twitter might perhaps be ...
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Relationships 2.0
I had an argument with a friend yesterday. He'd been a little economical with the truth and I found out and was angry. I found out via Facebook - of course. Facebook knows everything. This propelled me to write this post I've been thinking about for a while. The thrust of the talk that I ...
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Unlikely Source
I was reading a paper today, about mashups. It's fairly interesting, and you can find it here (you'll need an ACM account, sadly). It explores how end users feel about mashups. What kind of value do they see in them and would they create them if they had the knowledge? I read something a long time ...
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