Sidetracked by slide:ology
by jasondv on January 24, 2009
slide:ology, by Nancy Duarte
I was supposed to spend the afternoon grading presentations submitted by my students last week but I got sidetracked by a new book — slide:ology, by Nancy Duarte. I opened it with the idea of just browsing the contents very quickly, but within seconds I got sucked in.
After flipping through the book’s pages, I sought out more info and found the author’s blog, where extra resources (mainly sample PowerPoint slides that are featured in the book) were available. I wanted my own copy so I went to the publisher’s site and found out that a DRM-free PDF copy of the book was available for purchase, and within minutes I was $28 poorer. I did a little more surfing and found a collection of videos by Duarte Design over on video-sharing site Vimeo, and started downloading them as well. Before I knew it, nearly three hours had passed, and now I will have to work on a Sunday to be able to send my students their class standing by Monday.
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