(2010-11-02) Presentation Creation

I have to give a Presentation this weekend, so wanted to figure out to do this without going crazy.

• As usual, start in FreeMind to author.

• Since I'll be doing this remotely (Skype Screen Sharing), I could even give the presentation in FreeMind (since I won't be visible myself nor stuck holding a simple remote). On the other hand, having to close bits as you finish them to limit distraction is kinda annoying.

• Played with script to generate S5-ready HTML file from FreeMind, but it only makes 1 slide per top-level node, so a very deep/bushy Mind Map results in a small number of too-long slides. (I could re-arrange my FreeMind file to fit that model, but it seems to defeat the purpose.)

• Played with Prezi a bit, but have to retype each bit over again, plus deal with all that zooming and text-resizing. And I suspect I won't have that many visual elements. Seems not worth the trouble.

Feh, after refining my notes, I basically retyped into OpenOffice-Impress, just so that less clicking would be involved...