Live from HighEdWebDev 2007: 12-Step Program to Better Blogging

So, I gave my presentation about my 12-step program to better blogging and managed to turn it into some kind of stand-up comedy act this afternoon at HighEdWebDev as Vista – loaded on the laptop made available to the presenters by the organizers (note to self and tip for all of you: if you have your laptop, use it) – started to go through my slides… automatically.

At the beginning, I wondered if it was some kind of cool feature (yeah, I know, “cool feature” with a Microsoft product – what was I thinking?) bringing up the next slide on an audio cue of some sort. It wasn’t. For a strange reason, PowerPoint was configured to move to the next slide after a certain scheduled period of time.

Very neat.

Thanks to the technical support provided by 2 attendees of the session (big thanks go to John who managed to make it work), I was able to resume the presentation.

I created a special web page including the resources I discussed in the presentation (slide handouts, the 1-page checklist and all the links) as well as 10 tips by higher ed bloggers (a tip by blogger). You can find everything at www.higheredexperts.com/betterblogs

If you’d like to read about the presentation from a third-party, Gabriel McGovern did a short post about the session on his blog.

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3. Live from HighEdWebDev 2007: The Read/Write/A***E Web
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5. Live from HighEdWebDev 2007: Using Interactive Technologies and Social Media in Higher Education