- The autumn term is always extremely busy, so side projects tend to take a bit of a back seat (most of last term was consumed with developing two half-day training courses on using Reference Manager)
- As we didn't have the plasma screen, there was no point in dedicating significant time to a project with no immediate likelihood of having a positive outcome
That's not to say that I spent no time whatsoever thinking about this - in fact, quite the opposite. I'm convinced that if we can implement a plasma screen display in the way that I want, it will be a really effective tool (okay, so that may come across as a little arrogant, I'll admit!).
As a result, the idea is always in the back of my mind and whenever I have a moment I try thinking of how I can make the display as effective as possible, and get it to do the things that I want it to.
This has led to three key developments in the past few months:
- Use of imagery on the slides
- Insertion of live web pages and tweets in slides
- Repurposing of relevant external content
I'll write separate posts to discuss each of those in more detail shortly (otherwise this post would end up looking more like a dissertation than a blog post!).
In the meantime, I might as well reveal one final piece of news that has some relevance to this whole idea... we've been given the money to go ahead and get the plasma screen!
I'll allow myself a small smile to celebrate this step forward - but I'm not going to get too excited until I see the screen in place, running the presentation (at this stage I'm not counting a single chicken).
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