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| I'll be blogging from the Australian Psychological Society Conference for the next few days... | | Date Created: 26 Sep, 2007, 02:29 AM |
 Just a short note for those of you subscribing to the Cyberpsych blog that I'll be attending the APS conference in Brisbane and attempting to live blog the sessions, as long as the Brisbane Convention centre has wi-fi enabled.
So while the coverage may not be Mac-oriented, for those of you who like to hear about my presentation skills ideas with respect to Apple's Keynote and Microsoft's Powerpoint, yes, I'll be keeping score on how my colleagues have advanced since I last blogged the conference several years ago.
This year, I applied to do two workshops, one on Presentation Skills for psychologists (rejected) and one on Technologies for psychologists in practice, which was accepted. (It's on the last day of the conference this Saturday, which strikes me as an odd placement of workshops - why not at the beginning of the conference?).
I'll try and record my workshop using Keynote's built-in record function, and make a podcast of it, as podcasting will be a featured element of the workshop.
Frankly, I expect to die a little death each day from Powerpointpoisoning as Aussie psychologists are extremely slow to adopt Keynote, and seem slaves to the cognitive style of Powerpoint - all bullets, text, and chintzy clipart. Yech!
In fact, as I will discuss in a later blog entry, all short presentations are to be delivered as Powerpoints to be used on the Convention centre-supplied central PC servers, and Mac users have been specifically told to convert their presentations to Powerpoint - no exceptions.
Hopefully, those who attend my workshop (where I've insisted I use my Powerbook) will learn not just of technologies to enhance their practice, but will also come away wondering how they put up with the tradition of Powerpoint all these years.
Also, I can finally announce: I will be attending Macworld San Francisco and giving a training workshop on how I use Keynote. More details to follow, but it is an extreme honour and privilege to be part of the Macworld teaching faculty in '08.
Actually, I can also announce that is the first leg of my September Trifecta. the other two legs: I was elected President of iMug this evening, and was elected to Fellowship of the Australian Psychological Society last week, to be formally announced at the conference. Yippy - hi - yo!
More news to follow from the conference...
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